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Phyllis Haver
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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 Th…
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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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Phyllis Haver's Filmography
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Down Memory Lane
as (archive footage)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
A Small Town Idol
as Mary Brown
She Couldn't Say No
as Showgirl
Thunder
as Zella
The Office Scandal
as Jerry Cullen
The Shady Lady
as Lola Mantell
Sal of Singapore
as Sal
The Battle of the Sexes
as Marie Skinner
No Poster
Tenth Avenue
as Lyla Mason
Chicago
as Roxie Hart
The Wise Wife
as Helen Blaisdell
The Way of All Flesh
as The Temptress
The Fighting Eagle
as Countess de Launay
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
as Martha Rankin
No Poster
Your Wife and Mine
as Phyllis Warren
The Little Adventuress
as Victoria Stoddard
No Control
as Nancy Flood
Nobody's Widow
as Betty Johnson
What Price Glory
as Shanghai Mabel
The Nervous Wreck
as Sally Morgan
3 Bad Men
as Lily
Fig Leaves
as Alice Atkins
Don Juan
as Imperia (uncredited)
Up in Mabel's Room
as Phyllis Wells
Hard Boiled
as Justine Morton
Other Women's Husbands
as Roxana
The Cave Man
as Dolly Van Dream
A Fight to the Finish
as Mary Corbett
New Brooms
The Golden Princess
as Kate Kent
Rugged Water
as Myra Fuller
After Business Hours
as Sylvia Vane
I Want My Man
as Drusilla
Her Husband's Secret
as Pansy La Rue
So Big
as Dallas O'Meara
No Poster
One Glorious Night
as Sarah Graham
The Snob
as Dorothy Rensheimer
The Breath of Scandal
as Clara Simmons
The Foolish Virgin
as Jane Sanderson
Single Wives
as Marion Eldridge
The Midnight Express
as Jessie Sybil
The Perfect Flapper
as Gertrude Trayle
The Hollywood Kid
as Self
The Fighting Coward
as Elvira
Singer Jim Mckee
as Mary Holden
Lilies of the Field
as Gertrude
The Temple of Venus
as Constance Lane
The Common Law
as Rita Terris
The Bolted Door
as Natalie Judson
The Balloonatic
as The Young Woman
The Christian
as Polly Love
No Poster
Step Forward
as Rodney's Sweetheart
Bright Eyes
as The Modest Maid
No Poster
Love and Doughnuts
as The Baker's Sweetheart
A Small Town Idol
as Mary Brown
Love, Honor and Behave
as Mrs. Milton Robbin
Married Life
as College Belle
Down on the Farm
as Herself - in Prologue
Hearts and Flowers
as Prune Magnate's Daughter
Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bathing Girl
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as Minor Role (uncredited)
No Poster
It Pays to Exercise
as Dental Assistant
'49 – '17
as Young Bee Adams
The Sultan's Wife
as Harem Girl (uncredited/unconfirmed)
No Poster