Name
Phyllis Haver
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1899-01-05
Deathday
1960-11-19 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Douglass, Kansas, USA
Biography
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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- 1923 The Temple of Venus as Constance Lane
- 1925 Rugged Water as Myra Fuller
- 1926 What Price Glory as Shanghai Mabel
- 1925 The Golden Princess as Kate Kent
- 1924 The Hollywood Kid as Self
- 1927 Nobody's Widow as Betty Johnson
- 1919 Hearts and Flowers as Prune Magnate's Daughter
- 1927 The Little Adventuress as Victoria Stoddard
- 1928 Tenth Avenue as Lyla Mason
- 1919 Yankee Doodle in Berlin as Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1923 The Christian as Polly Love
- 1927 The Fighting Eagle as Countess de Launay
- 1927 The Wise Wife as Helen Blaisdell
- 1927 The Way of All Flesh as The Temptress
- 1923 The Balloonatic as The Young Woman
- 1926 Fig Leaves as Alice Atkins
- 1928 Sal of Singapore as Sal
- 1927 Chicago as Roxie Hart
- 1928 The Battle of the Sexes as Marie Skinner
- 1920 Down on the Farm as Herself - in Prologue
- 1926 Other Women's Husbands as Roxana
- 1921 Love and Doughnuts as The Baker's Sweetheart
- 1921 Bright Eyes as The Modest Maid
- 1926 The Nervous Wreck as Sally Morgan
- 1926 Hard Boiled as Justine Morton
- 1917 '49 – '17 as Young Bee Adams
- 1926 3 Bad Men as Lily
- 1929 Thunder as Zella
- 1924 So Big as Dallas O'Meara
- 1926 Up in Mabel's Room as Phyllis Wells
- 1924 The Perfect Flapper as Gertrude Trayle
- 1924 The Snob as Dorothy Rensheimer
- 1917 The Sultan's Wife as Harem Girl (uncredited/unconfirmed)
- 1929 The Office Scandal as Jerry Cullen
- 1924 The Midnight Express as Jessie Sybil
- 1924 The Fighting Coward as Elvira
- 1923 The Common Law as Rita Terris
- 1921 A Small Town Idol as Mary Brown
- 1922 Step Forward as Rodney's Sweetheart
- 1943 Happy Times and Jolly Moments as (archive footage)
- 1925 New Brooms
- 1926 The Cave Man as Dolly Van Dream
- 1924 Singer Jim Mckee as Mary Holden
- 1924 The Foolish Virgin as Jane Sanderson
- 1926 Don Juan as Imperia (uncredited)
- 1918 It Pays to Exercise as Dental Assistant
- 1925 After Business Hours as Sylvia Vane
- 1924 One Glorious Night as Sarah Graham
- 1919 Why Beaches Are Popular as Bathing Girl
- 1939 A Small Town Idol as Mary Brown
- 1924 Lilies of the Field as Gertrude
- 1916 Sunshine
- 1949 Down Memory Lane as (archive footage)
- 1930 She Couldn't Say No as Showgirl
- 1924 Single Wives as Marion Eldridge
- 1927 No Control as Nancy Flood
- 1928 The Shady Lady as Lola Mantell
- 1924 The Breath of Scandal as Clara Simmons
- 1925 I Want My Man as Drusilla
- 1927 The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary as Martha Rankin
- 1925 A Fight to the Finish as Mary Corbett
- 1925 Her Husband's Secret as Pansy La Rue
- 1920 Love, Honor and Behave as Mrs. Milton Robbin
- 1920 Married Life as College Belle
- 1923 The Bolted Door as Natalie Judson
- 1927 Your Wife and Mine as Phyllis Warren
