Wanda Hawley
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wanda Hawley (a.k.a. Wanda Petit), (July 30, 1895 – March 18, 1963) was a veteran of the silent screen films era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the U.S. and Canada as a singer. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922's The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B. DeMille and director Sam Wood's films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wanda Hawley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: July 29, 1895
Place of Birth: Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
Known For
Greased Lightning
Andy Fletcher is a blacksmith in a country village, but he dreams of racing automobiles. He gets his chance to enter a big race, but winning is complicated by a band of bank robbers.
A Trip to Paramountown
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Smouldering Fires
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her much younger factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
The Young Rajah
A young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
Old Wives for New
Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife for another woman; When his other love interest becomes involved in a murder, he leaves for Paris.
For Better, for Worse
Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.
Mr. Fix-It
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
The Eyes of the Totem
After selling out a mining claim in the desolate and frigid north, Miriam Hardy moves to Tacoma with her husband and young daughter to start a new life. Things don't go as planned when her husband is murdered by a mysterious sinister eyed stranger, leaving Ms. Hardy a destitute widow. With the police unable to help find the murderer, Ms. Hardy is rescued by a kindly elderly beggar and taken in by a beggar's society. Miriam enrolls her daughter in a private seminary and lives a double life as a street beggar and a member of polite society, until a chance encounter one day leads her back to the sinister eyed stranger she has been seeking for years.
The Midnight Message
Johnny works as a Western Union messenger, while his mother earns a meager living with an old sewing machine. One day he interrupts a robbery, scares off the thieves, and rescues a beautiful young girl. Later he captures the robbers, and receives a $1,000 reward given him by the girl's father, Johnny happily buys his mother a new sewing machine.
The Affairs of Anatol
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.
Filmography
as Mariam Hardy
as Cynthia
as Mary Macy
as Trixie Moran
as Peg Palmer
as Doris Reed
as Mary Foster
as Doris Gray
as Princess Alicia
as Dagmar
as Vivian Marsden Reynolds
as Irene
as Lucy
as Beth Wylie
as Molly Winthrop
as Bertie
as Alice Sturgis
as Corinne Adams
as Bess Marks
as Lady Agnes Deppingham
as Dorinne Adams
as Wanda Hawley (uncredited)
as Bessie Fleming
as Gloria Hallowell
as Grace Kendall
as Lucille Ledyard
as Molly Cabot
as Muriel Blair
as Self
as Muriel Champneys
as Tess Haggard
as Polly Heath
as Myra Morgan
as Ruth Sheldon
as Peggy Malone
as Emilie Dixon
as Violet White
as Sheila Ashlone
as Cora Rodham
as Dorothy Ralston
as Kathryn Haynes
as Suzanne Bergamot
as Christina Elliott
as Emmy McCreery
as Sylvia Figueroa
as Miss Hobbs
as Clara Temple
as Millicent Carpenter
as Sallie McPherson
as Monica
as Beauty
as Helen Heyer
as Ann Belleau
as Edith Varney
as Helen Rogers
as Dawn Emerson
as Alice Flint
as Betty Hoyt
as 'Pep' Sparks, aka Hope
as Elsa Owenson
as Frances Raymond
as Elsa Miller
as Pamela Bristowe
as Kedzie Thropp
as Sophy in Prologue
as Mary McCullough
as Grace Martin
as Helen Baldwin
as Iola Hamilton
as The Girl
as Helen