Violet Heming
Violet Heming | |
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| File:Violet Heming.jpg Heming in 1921 | |
| Born | Violet Hemming 27 January 1895 Leeds, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 4 July 1981 (aged 86) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1908–1955 |
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Violet Heming (27 January 1895 – 4 July 1981) was an English stage and screen actress. Her name sometimes appeared as Violet Hemming in newspapers.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born Violet Hemming in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming - who appeared in silent films - and Mabel Allen.
Heming began a stage career in 1908, appearing as Carrie Crews in Fluffy Ruffles.[3] In 1917 she created the title role in the premiere of Frederick J. Jackson's Losing Eloise (later retitled The Naughty Wife) at Broadway's Harris Theatre.[4] She appeared in her first motion picture, a short film for Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with George Arliss in the play Disraeli.[5]
In September 1925, Variety reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.[citation needed]
Heming starred as the lead in The Getaway, a play written by Charles King Van Riper, which appeared at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 1926.[6] Two reviews appeared in Variety one saying "Most of the success of The Getaway is due to the superb work of Miss Heming and a well selected cast."[7]
Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades, she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.[8][9]
She died in New York City on 4 July 1981, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.[10]
Partial filmography
[edit | edit source]- The Woman Hater (1910 short)
- Tempest and Sunshine (1910 short)
- Lena Rivers (1910 short)
- The Mermaid (1910)
- Paul and Virginia (1910 film)
- The Running Fight (1915), extant in the Library of Congress
- The Danger Trail (1917)
- The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
- The Common Cause (1919)
- Everywoman (1919)
- The Cost (1920)
- When the Desert Calls (1922)
- The Knife (1929 short), made in Fox Movietone
- The Man Who Played God (1932)
- Almost Married (1932)
References
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- ^ Who Was Who on the Screen, 3rd Edit. by Evelyn Mack Truitt, p. 328; c. 1983
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External links
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- Violet Heming at IMDb
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- baby picture; Violet Heming aged 3
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