Gladys Hulette

Born: 1896-07-21

From Wikipedia Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was a silent film actress from Arcade, New York. Her career began in the early years of silent movies and continued until the mid-1930s. 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. 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. By 1917 Hulette's films were being produced by leading director William Parke. In that year she made her most popular film to date, Streets of Illusion. Playing the part of Beam, Hulette's co-stars included Richard Barthelmess and J.H. Gilmour. Parke owned theatrical companies and assisted Hulette in making one hit after another. By 1921 she was a veteran of the motion picture industry. She again played opposite Barthelmess, this time in Tol'able David. She played the ingenue part of Esther Hatburn. In an interview she said she wished for no different type of roles than the one she played in this film. Later she sought comedy-drama parts which she portrayed in Jack O' Hearts (1926) and A Bowery Cinderella (1927). Hulette made her debut in sound films in Torch Singer (1933). Her final film appearances came in Her Resale Value (1933) and with uncredited roles in The Girl From Missouri and One Hour Late, both from 1934.


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The Iron Horse

as Ruby
Released: 1924-08-24

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy,...

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Enemies of Women

as Vittoria Spadoni
Released: 1923-04-15

The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling...

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The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

as 'Miss'
Released: 1924-11-30

After 15 years of searching, Bud Watkins finally has his revenge on the cattlemen's gunman who...

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Torch Singer

as Nightclub Patron
Released: 1933-09-08

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption...

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Be Your Age

as The Widow's Secretary
Released: 1926-11-13

Charley needs $10,000 right away. Mrs. Schwartzkopple has inherited $2 million from her late...

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Tol'able David

as Esther Hatburn
Released: 1921-12-31

Young David Kinemon is a good-natured, easy-going lad in a mountain village. Circumstances force...

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The Family Secret

as Margaret Selfridge
Released: 1924-09-28

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father...

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The Skyrocket

as Lucia Morgan
Released: 1926-02-14

In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but...

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The Flight of the Duchess

as Lady Alice - The Earl's Ward
Released: 1916-03-11

Based on Browning's poem, a widowed Duchess raises a son that decides to abandon modern ways and...

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Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy

as The Elder Fairy
Released: 1909-08-10

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

as Alice
Released: 1910-09-09

Made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter, the film starred...

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The Mystic

as Doris Merrick
Released: 1925-09-26

Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man...

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A Crooked Romance

as Mary Flynn
Released: 1917-09-30

Mary's supposed father, Syd, trains her to believe theft is justifiable. Caught robbing a man's...

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The Last of the Carnabys

as Lucy Carnaby
Released: 1917-07-22

The affluent Carnabys have now dwindled in fortune and family, leaving just Lucy and her...

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Hoodman Blind

as Nancy Yeulette
Released: 1923-12-20

It is a remake of a 1913 film of the same name directed by James Gordon and a 1916 William...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Puck
Released: 1909-12-25

An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation...

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Prudence the Pirate

as Prudence
Released: 1916-10-21

To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the...

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Go Straight!

as Gilda Hart
Released: 1925-04-27

Gilda is a crook who wants to go straight, but her pals keep holding her back. She moves to...

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The Shine Girl

as The Shine Girl
Released: 1916-08-26

An optimistic girl survives city life as a shoe shine till she ends up in children's court. Just...

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Mrs. Slacker

as Susie Simpkins
Released: 1918-03-31

Susie organizes plays to benefit the Red Cross. She marries her hero, Robert, but finds out he...

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Fair Lady

as Myra Nell Drew
Released: 1922-03-19

Countess Margherita is a Sicilian girl who is about to be married, but Caesar Maruffi, the head...

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Papa's Sweetheart

as One of the Children
Released: 1911-12-26

In the first scene we see a group of children at a window waiting for the arrival of their...

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