Known For
Acting
Born
Jul 21, 1896
Died
Aug 08, 1991
Place of Birth
Arcade, New York, USA
Credits
49 titles
Gladys Hulette
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Torch Singer
Nightclub Patron
The Faithless Lover
Mary Callender
A Bowery Cinderella
Nora Denahy
Be Your Age
The Widow's Secretary
Unknown Treasures
Mary Hamilton
The Skyrocket
Lucia Morgan
The Iron Horse
Ruby
The Mystic
Doris Merrick
The Pride of the Force
Mary Moore
The Thoroughbred
Mitzi Callahan
Go Straight!
Gilda Hart
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
'Miss'
The Family Secret
Margaret Selfridge
The Slanderers
Gladys Gray
The Night Message
Elsie Lefferts
Hoodman Blind
Nancy Yeulette
Enemies of Women
Vittoria Spadoni
As a Man Lives
Nadia Meredith
How Women Love
Natalie Nevins
Secrets of Paris
Mayflower
Fair Lady
Myra Nell Drew
Tol'able David
Esther Hatburn
The Silent Barrier
Etta Stampa
High Speed
Edith Rhoades
Mrs. Slacker
Susie Simpkins
Over the Hill
Esther
A Crooked Romance
Mary Flynn
The Streets of Illusion
Beam
The Last of the Carnabys
Lucy Carnaby
The Cigarette Girl
The cigarette girl
The Candy Girl
Nell
Pots-and-Pans Peggy
Peggy McGraw
Her New York
Phoebe Lester
Prudence the Pirate
Prudence
The Shine Girl
The Shine Girl
The Traffic Cop
Casey's Sweetheart
The Flight of the Duchess
Lady Alice - The Earl's Ward
The Working of a Miracle
Mary Murdock - Kent's Ward
The Mission of Mr. Foo
Florence
Getting to the Ball Game
The Treasure of Captain Kidd
Modern Sweetheart
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack
Papa's Sweetheart
One of the Children
Lorna Doone
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice
The Japanese Peach Boy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
Hiawatha
Hiawatha
Princess Nicotine
The Elder Fairy