Hilda Vaughn (December , â€" December , ) was an American actress of
the stage, film, radio, and television.The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Strouse, Vaughn attended Vassar College and the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts.Vaughn frequently played a “pleb†, or a commoner
in the films she acted in (waitresses, maids, charwomen, governesses,
and saleswomen) but "the characters she embodied did not lack ...
character!" A fixture at MGM in the sound era of the early s, she
acted in more than films. Her most notable films were 's Dinner at
Eight where she was memorable as Jean Harlow's blackmailing maid, as
well as Today We Live (), Chasing Yesterday (), and Charlie Chan at
the Wax Museum ().She appeared on Broadway, and in toured as the lead
in "Rain," based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Her "smoldering
quality" came back to Broadway two years later in "The Seed of the
Brute" at the Little Theatre. She also appeared on Broadway in "Glory
Hallelujah."
the stage, film, radio, and television.The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Eli Strouse, Vaughn attended Vassar College and the American Academy
of Dramatic Arts.Vaughn frequently played a “pleb†, or a commoner
in the films she acted in (waitresses, maids, charwomen, governesses,
and saleswomen) but "the characters she embodied did not lack ...
character!" A fixture at MGM in the sound era of the early s, she
acted in more than films. Her most notable films were 's Dinner at
Eight where she was memorable as Jean Harlow's blackmailing maid, as
well as Today We Live (), Chasing Yesterday (), and Charlie Chan at
the Wax Museum ().She appeared on Broadway, and in toured as the lead
in "Rain," based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham. Her "smoldering
quality" came back to Broadway two years later in "The Seed of the
Brute" at the Little Theatre. She also appeared on Broadway in "Glory
Hallelujah."
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