Gladys Hulette (July , â€" August , ) was an American silent film
actress from Arcade, New York, United States. Her career began in the
early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-s. She first
performed on stage at the age of three and on screen when she was
seven years old. Hulette was also a talented artist. Her mother was an
opera star.Hulette was among the principal players in Sappho and Phaon
which had its first performance in Providence, Rhode Island on October
, . She helped support Bertha Kalich in the Percy MacKaye production.
As a child she also appeared in Romeo and Juliet () and The Smoke
Fairy (). On Broadway, in The Blue Bird (), she played Tyltyl. She was
the sweet youth, Beth, in Little Women ().In her earliest motion
picture features she was under contract to Vitagraph Studios. There
was a stigma for Broadway theater actors to be seen in motion pictures
when silent films first began to be made. Hulette later discussed
this, saying the picture heroes were mostly Coney Island life savers.
One company prevailed upon a leading stage actor to play the role of
Hamlet on screen. This began the influx of more Broadway actors into
the new medium.
actress from Arcade, New York, United States. Her career began in the
early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-s. She first
performed on stage at the age of three and on screen when she was
seven years old. Hulette was also a talented artist. Her mother was an
opera star.Hulette was among the principal players in Sappho and Phaon
which had its first performance in Providence, Rhode Island on October
, . She helped support Bertha Kalich in the Percy MacKaye production.
As a child she also appeared in Romeo and Juliet () and The Smoke
Fairy (). On Broadway, in The Blue Bird (), she played Tyltyl. She was
the sweet youth, Beth, in Little Women ().In her earliest motion
picture features she was under contract to Vitagraph Studios. There
was a stigma for Broadway theater actors to be seen in motion pictures
when silent films first began to be made. Hulette later discussed
this, saying the picture heroes were mostly Coney Island life savers.
One company prevailed upon a leading stage actor to play the role of
Hamlet on screen. This began the influx of more Broadway actors into
the new medium.
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