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Phyllis Haver
Douglass, Kansas, USA
From Wikipedia Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. S…
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From Wikipedia Phyllis Haver (January 6, 1899 – November 19, 1960) was an American actress of the silent film era. Haver auditioned for comedy producer Mack Sennett on a whim. Sennett hired her as one of his original Sennett Bathing Beauties. Within a few years, she appeared as a leading lady in two-reelers for Sennett Studios. Later, while signed with DeMille-Pathé, Haver played the part of Roxie Hart in the first film adaptation of Chicago in 1927, opposite Hungarian film actor Victor Varconi. One reviewer called her performance "astoundingly fine," and added that Haver "makes this combination of tragedy and comedy a most entertaining piece of work." She performed in the comedy film The Battle of the Sexes (1928), directed by D. W. Griffith, and appeared with Lon Chaney in his last silent film, Thunder (1929). Haver retired from the industry with two 'sound' films to her credit. In 1929, she married millionaire William Seeman with a service performed by New York Mayor James J. Walker at the home of Rube Goldberg, the cartoonist. The couple divorced in 1945. Haver retired in Sharon, Connecticut. She died at age 61 from an overdose of barbiturates in 1960, a suspected suicide. Haver left no survivors.
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1949
Down Memory Lane
Movie (archive footage)
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1943
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
Movie (archive footage)
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1939
A Small Town Idol
Movie Mary Brown
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1930
She Couldn't Say No
Movie Showgirl
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1929
Thunder
Movie Zella
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1929
The Office Scandal
Movie Jerry Cullen
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1928
The Shady Lady
Movie Lola Mantell
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1928
Sal of Singapore
Movie Sal
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1928
The Battle of the Sexes
Movie Marie Skinner
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1928
Tenth Avenue
Movie Lyla Mason
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1927
Chicago
Movie Roxie Hart
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1927
The Wise Wife
Movie Helen Blaisdell
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1927
The Way of All Flesh
Movie The Temptress
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1927
The Fighting Eagle
Movie Countess de Launay
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1927
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
Movie Martha Rankin
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1927
Your Wife and Mine
Movie Phyllis Warren
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1927
The Little Adventuress
Movie Victoria Stoddard
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1927
No Control
Movie Nancy Flood
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1927
Nobody's Widow
Movie Betty Johnson
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1926
What Price Glory
Movie Shanghai Mabel
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1926
The Nervous Wreck
Movie Sally Morgan
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1926
3 Bad Men
Movie Lily
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1926
Fig Leaves
Movie Alice Atkins
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1926
Don Juan
Movie Imperia (uncredited)
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1926
Up in Mabel's Room
Movie Phyllis Wells
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1926
Hard Boiled
Movie Justine Morton
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1926
Other Women's Husbands
Movie Roxana
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1926
The Cave Man
Movie Dolly Van Dream
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1925
A Fight to the Finish
Movie Mary Corbett
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1925
New Brooms
Movie
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1925
The Golden Princess
Movie Kate Kent
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1925
Rugged Water
Movie Myra Fuller
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1925
After Business Hours
Movie Sylvia Vane
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1925
I Want My Man
Movie Drusilla
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1925
Her Husband's Secret
Movie Pansy La Rue
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1924
So Big
Movie Dallas O'Meara
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1924
One Glorious Night
Movie Sarah Graham
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1924
The Snob
Movie Dorothy Rensheimer
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1924
The Breath of Scandal
Movie Clara Simmons
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1924
The Foolish Virgin
Movie Jane Sanderson
