Violet Heming

Violet Heming
Heming in 1921
Born
Violet Hemming

(1895-01-27)27 January 1895
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died4 July 1981(1981-07-04) (aged 86)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1908-1955
Spouses

Violet Heming (27 January 1895 – 4 July 1981) was an English stage and screen actress. Her name sometimes appeared as Violet Hemming in newspapers.[1][2]

Biography

Born Violet Hemming in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming - who appeared in silent films - and Mabel Allen.

Heming began a stage career in 1908, appearing as Carrie Crews in Fluffy Ruffles.[3] In 1917 she created the title role in the premiere of Frederick J. Jackson's Losing Eloise (later retitled The Naughty Wife) at Broadway's Harris Theatre.[4] She appeared in her first motion picture, a short film for Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with George Arliss in the play Disraeli.[citation needed]

In September 1925, Variety reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the De Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.[citation needed]

Heming starred as the lead in The Getaway, a play written by Charles King Van Riper, which appeared at Nixon's Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 1926.[5] Two reviews appeared in Variety one saying "Most of the success of The Getaway is due to the superb work of Miss Heming and a well selected cast."[6]

Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades, she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.[7][8]

She died on 4 July 1981.[citation needed]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ "'Always Juliet' To Open". The San Francisco Examiner. June 17, 1934. p. 33. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Comedy". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Ohio, Cincinnati. December 3, 1933. p. 48. Retrieved May 29, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Violet Heming". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on May 28, 2020. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  4. ^ "LOSING ELOISE' HAS AN AMUSING IDEA; A High-Class Farce Built About the Eloping Wife and Her Lover". The New York Times. November 19, 1917. p. 9.
  5. ^ "Stirring Dram at the Apollo "The Getaway," With Violet Heming, New Play of Adventure". Press of Atlantic City. Atlantic City, New Jersey. September 30, 1925. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  6. ^ "The Getaway". Variety. 80 (8). October 7, 1925. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
  7. ^ Who Was Who on the Screen, 3rd Edit. by Evelyn Mack Truitt, p.328; c.1983
  8. ^ Silent Film Necrology, 2nd Edit. by Eugene Michael Vazzana, p.238; c.2001(mention of mother being Mabel Allen)
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