Stella Hammerstein Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Stella Hammerstein Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Stella Hammerstein was an American actress. She was sometimes billed

as Stella Steele.Hammerstein was the daughter of Oscar Hammerstein I

and Malvina Jacobi Hammerstein, both of whom initially opposed her

going into show business as a profession. In 1908, she told a New York

Times reporter of her father's reaction when, at age 20, she told him

that she was going into musical comedy: "Papa without more ado piled

me over his knee and applied the hairbrush vigorously." Eventually he

accepted her desire to be an actress.In 1902, Hammerstein joined the

stock theater company headed by Daniel Frohman. She debuted on January

7 of that year in Frocks and Frills. In 1904, she went to London to

study drama and soon joined an opera company. Her stay was cut short

when her father ordered her home as a way of breaking up a romantic

relationship that she had developed with a magazine publisher. She

returned to London in April 1907 to join one of the theatrical

companies of George Joseph Edwardes. In 1908, she returned to the

United States to perform in George M. Cohan's The Yankee Prince when

it had its premiere in Hartford, Connecticut.Hammerstein's hopes of

eventually singing grand opera and becoming a prima donna were dashed

when her father's throat specialist told her in 1908 that her vocal

cords were "much too weak for really great music".
Stella Hammerstein Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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