Gladys Hulette

Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was an American silent film actress from Arcade, New York, United States.

Hulette was among the principal players in Sappho and Phaon[1] which had its first performance in Providence, Rhode Island on October 4, 1907.

Her other Broadway credits included The Kreutzer Sonata (1906), A Doll's House (1907), and The Faith Healer (1910).

There was a stigma for Broadway theater actors to be seen in motion pictures when silent films first began to be made.

She discovered that saloons in America's old west provided a softening influence, and the nucleus of community consciousness.

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.

[2] In the early 1980s, the aged Hulette was visited by film historian Walter Coppedge and lived under distressed circumstances as a ward of the state in an institution in Rosemead.

But Coppedge also wrote: "Yet her eyes are bright, her figure supple, her complexion pink and porcelain.

Gladys Hulette as Tyltyl in the Broadway production of The Blue Bird (1910)
A Crooked Romance (1917)
The Shine Girl (1916)