Phyllis Haver
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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Movies (50)
Down Memory Lane
as (archive footage)
1949
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
1943
A Small Town Idol
as Mary Brown
1939
She Couldn't Say No
as Showgirl
1930
Thunder
as Zella
1929
The Office Scandal
as Jerry Cullen
1929
The Shady Lady
as Lola Mantell
1928
Sal of Singapore
as Sal
1928
The Battle of the Sexes
as Marie Skinner
1928
Tenth Avenue
as Lyla Mason
1928
Chicago
as Roxie Hart
1927
The Wise Wife
as Helen Blaisdell
1927
The Way of All Flesh
as The Temptress
1927
The Fighting Eagle
as Countess de Launay
1927
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
as Martha Rankin
1927
The Little Adventuress
as Victoria Stoddard
1927
No Control
as Nancy Flood
1927
Nobody's Widow
as Betty Johnson
1927
What Price Glory
as Shanghai Mabel
1926
The Nervous Wreck
as Sally Morgan
1926
3 Bad Men
as Lily
1926
Fig Leaves
as Alice Atkins
1926
Don Juan
as Imperia (uncredited)
1926
Up in Mabel's Room
as Phyllis Wells
1926
Hard Boiled
as Justine Morton
1926
Other Women's Husbands
as Roxana
1926
The Cave Man
as Dolly Van Dream
1926
A Fight to the Finish
as Mary Corbett
1925
New Brooms
1925
The Golden Princess
as Kate Kent
1925
Rugged Water
as Myra Fuller
1925
After Business Hours
as Sylvia Vane
1925
I Want My Man
as Drusilla
1925
Her Husband's Secret
as Pansy La Rue
1925
So Big
as Dallas O'Meara
1924
One Glorious Night
as Sarah Graham
1924
The Snob
as Dorothy Rensheimer
1924
The Breath of Scandal
as Clara Simmons
1924
The Foolish Virgin
1924
Single Wives
as Marion Eldridge
1924
The Midnight Express
as Jessie Sybil
1924
The Perfect Flapper
as Gertrude Trayle
1924
The Hollywood Kid
as Self
1924
The Fighting Coward
as Elvira
1924
Singer Jim Mckee
as Mary Holden
1924
Lilies of the Field
as Gertrude
1924
The Temple of Venus
as Constance Lane
1923
The Common Law
as Rita Terris
1923
The Bolted Door
as Natalie Judson
1923
The Balloonatic
as The Young Woman
1923