Hilda Keenan

Hilda Keenan (November 1891 – August 20, 1940) was an American actress and vaudeville performer, part of a family of actors including her father Frank Keenan, her husband Ed Wynn, and her son Keenan Wynn.

[2] Keenan was in vaudeville with a one-act sketch called Sarah in 1911.

[3] She appeared in the plays The Heights (1911),[4] The Road to Arcady (1912),[5] Within the Law and The Salamander.

[6] In Within the Law, she co-starred with Margaret Illington;[7] one critic commented that "Hilda Keenan's Agnes Lynch, a blackmailer, is noticeably excellent, and makes an engaging characterization of a rôle which ordinarily would scarcely win our friendly feelings.

"[8] Keenan was married to actor Ed Wynn from 1914[9] until their protracted, widely publicized[10] and rancorous[11][12] divorce in 1937.