Grace Hayle (July 24, 1888 – March 20, 1963) was an American actress who appeared in more than 300 films.[1]
Grace Hayle | |
|---|---|
 Hayle in the 1940s | |
| Born | July 24, 1888 |
| Died | March 20, 1963 (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1932–1957 |
In the fall of 1917, Hayle was the "new leading woman" with the Knickerbocker Players at the Knickerbocker Theatre in Philadelphia.[2] She portrayed Laura Murdock in The Easiest Way a 1917 production with that group.[3] On Broadway, she acted in Double Exposure (1918) and The Duchess Misbehaves (1946).[4]
Hayle died on March 20, 1963, in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, aged 74.[1]
Selected filmography
edit- Back Street (1932) - Lady in Street (uncredited)
- Evenings for Sale (1932) - Pink Elephant Lady (uncredited)
- The Death Kiss (1932) - Chalmer's Nosy Neighbor (uncredited)
- Hard to Handle (1933) - Fat Lady with Vanishing Cream (uncredited)
- The Intruder (1933) - Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- The Mind Reader (1933) - Shill (uncredited)
- Diplomaniacs (1933) - Dowager on Boat (uncredited)
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) - Society Reporter (uncredited)
- Professional Sweetheart (1933) - Fat Reporter (uncredited)
- Baby Face (1933) - Mrs. Hemingway (uncredited)
- Mary Stevens, M.D. (1933) - Wealthy Fat Lady (uncredited)
- Bureau of Missing Persons (1933) - Lady Who Wants Her Cook Back (uncredited)
- Bombshell (1933) - Mrs. Titcomb (uncredited)
- Goodbye Love (1933) - Lura 'Ducky' Groggs
- Design for Living (1933) - Woman on Staircase (uncredited)
- Lady Killer (1933) - Fido's Owner (uncredited)
- Bedside (1934) - Mrs. Mason (uncredited)
- The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) - Lettuce (uncredited)
- Wonder Bar (1934) - Fat Dowager (scenes deleted)
- Glamour (1934) - Miss Lang (uncredited)
- Laughing Boy (1934) - Mabel (uncredited)
- Sing and Like It (1934) - Miss Fishbeck - Little Theatre Stage Director
- Twenty Million Sweethearts (1934) - Mrs. Martha Brokman (uncredited)
- Straight Is the Way (1934) - Mrs. Clapman (uncredited)
- Romance in the Rain (1934) - Mrs. Crandall
- The Party's Over (1934) - Society Woman (uncredited)
- Chained (1934) - Edith's Friend - Shipboard Spinster (uncredited)
- Outcast Lady (1934) - First Gossiper (uncredited)
- 6 Day Bike Rider (1934) - Nervous Man's Big Girl Friend (uncredited)
- Music in the Air (1934) - Innkeeper's Wife (uncredited)
- The Whole Town's Talking (1935) - Reporter (uncredited)
- All the King's Horses (1935) - Henpecked Husband's Wife (uncredited)
- Living on Velvet (1935) - Talkative Woman at Party (uncredited)
- Roberta (1935) - Miss Jones - Newspaper Reporter (uncredited)
- The Casino Murder Case (1935) - Fat Lady at Auction (uncredited)
- Mister Dynamite (1935) - Dowager (uncredited)
- Party Wire (1935) - Eleanor (uncredited)
- Calm Yourself (1935)- Mrs. James K. Vallance (uncredited)
- Front Page Woman (1935) - Nell Bonnett (uncredited)
- Don't Bet on Blondes (1935) - Matron Looking at Racing Sheet (uncredited)
- Bright Lights (1935) - Fat Lady on Airplane (uncredited)
- Orchids to You (1935) - Giggly Woman (uncredited)
- She Married Her Boss (1935) - Agnes Mayo
- Music Is Magic (1935) - Laundry Manageress (uncredited)
- Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) - Nurse Jennie
- Dancing Feet (1936) - Mrs. Worthington (uncredited)
- The Great Ziegfeld (1936) - Wife at Chicago World's Fair (uncredited)
- The First Baby (1936) - Effusive Woman (uncredited)
- The Moon's Our Home (1936) - Miss Hambridge
- Small Town Girl (1936) - Nurse Collins (uncredited)
- The Harvester (1936) - Mrs. Kramer
- Ticket to Paradise (1936) - Minnie Dawson
- A Son Comes Home (1936) - Tourist Mother (uncredited)
- Pepper (1936) - Sissie's Mother (uncredited)
- 15 Maiden Lane (1936) - Giddy Guest (uncredited)
- Without Orders (1936) - Fat Lady at Airport (uncredited)
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936)- Mrs. Cobb (uncredited)
- Reunion (1936) - Mrs. Williams (uncredited)
- Winterset (1936) - Woman (uncredited)
- Maytime (1937) - Mrs. Perkin (uncredited)
- Internes Can't Take Money (1937) - Patient (uncredited)
- A Star Is Born (1937) - Woman in Funeral Mob (uncredited)
- The Hit Parade (1937) - Cooking Expert (uncredited)
- Meet the Missus (1937) - Miss Corn Belt (uncredited)
- It Could Happen to You (1937) - Woman Reporter (uncredited)
- The Singing Marine (1937) - Fat Lady with Mob of Women (uncredited)
- Topper (1937) - Outraged Heavy Woman (uncredited)
- Music for Madame (1937) - Fat Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- Tovarich (1937) - Mrs. Van Hemert
- Wise Girl (1937) - Fat Mother with Baby Wilbur (uncredited)
- Man-Proof (1938) - Third Gossipy Woman (uncredited)
- Change of Heart (1938) - Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
- Battle of Broadway (1938) - Heavy Woman in Lobby (uncredited)
- Wives Under Suspicion (1938) - Lady in Courtroom (uncredited)
- Men Are Such Fools (1938) - Fat Woman in Elevator (uncredited)
- The Shopworn Angel (1938) - Mistress of Ceremonies (uncredited)
- Letter of Introduction (1938) - Autograph Seeker - Park Plaza (uncredited)
- Keep Smiling (1938) - Fat Woman at Auction (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy (1938) - First Woman Getting Autograph (uncredited)
- Carefree (1938) - Grace (uncredited)
- Secrets of an Actress (1938) - Fat Visitor in Dressing Room (uncredited)
- Straight Place and Show (1938) - Stout Woman (uncredited)
- Young Dr. Kildare (1938) - Stout Lady (scenes deleted)
- Five of a Kind (1938) - Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
- The Shining Hour (1938) - Mrs. Briggs (uncredited)
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938) - Tourist (uncredited)
- Next Time I Marry (1938) - Fat Reporter (uncredited)
- Sweethearts (1938) - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Pacific Liner (1939) - Fat Passenger (uncredited)
- Boy Trouble (1939) - Fat Mother
- Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) - Dibble's Customer (uncredited)
- Risky Business (1939) - Fan (uncredited)
- Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939) - Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
- Undercover Doctor (1939) - Mrs. Croyne (uncredited)
- The Forgotten Woman (1939) - Fat Woman in Beauty Shop (uncredited)
- Coast Guard (1939) - Stout Woman (uncredited)
- Death of a Champion (1939) - Stout Woman (uncredited)
- The Star Maker (1939) - Rural Mother (uncredited)
- The Women (1939) - Cyclist (uncredited)
- Espionage Agent (1939) - Mrs. O'Grady
- First Love (1939) - Madame Margarita Catalini (uncredited)
- Our Neighbors – The Carters (1939) - Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Honeymoon's Over (1939) - Fat Woman (uncredited)
- Charlie McCarthy, Detective (1939) - Fat Woman (uncredited)
- The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Plump Woman (uncredited)
- High School (1940) - Miss Cummings (uncredited)
- I Take This Woman (1940) - Mrs. Farthington (scenes deleted)
- The Farmer's Daughter (1940) - Torsavitch (uncredited)
- Road to Singapore (1940) - Chaperone on Yacht (uncredited)
- Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940) - Mrs. Smythe (uncredited)
- Primrose Path (1940) - Drunk's Wife Leaving Bluebell (uncredited)
- 'Til We Meet Again (1940) - Fussy Woman Passenger (uncredited)
- Girl in 313 (1940) - Mrs. Hudson
- The Ghost Breakers (1940) - Screaming Woman (uncredited)
- Maryland (1940) - Mrs. Carrington (uncredited)
- Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940) - Tom's Wife (uncredited)
- Wildcat Bus (1940) - Fat Woman (uncredited)
- Spring Parade (1940) - Mrs. Burkhart (uncredited)
- Third Finger, Left Hand (1940) - Mrs. Kelland (uncredited)
- The Great Dictator (1940) - Madame Napaloni
- Remedy for Riches (1940) - Investor in Line (uncredited)
- A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940) - Mrs. Alonzo Smith (uncredited)
- Honeymoon for Three (1941) - Fat Book Club Member (uncredited)
- You're the One (1941) - 2nd Woman in Ladies Steam Room
- Knockout (1941) - Mrs. Smithers (uncredited)
- The Wagons Roll at Night (1941) - Mrs. Grebnick (uncredited)
- West Point Widow (1941) - Dowager (uncredited)
- For Beauty's Sake (1941) - Fat Woman (uncredited)
- Puddin' Head (1941) - Dowager (uncredited)
- Unfinished Business (1941) - Woman (uncredited)
- Buy Me That Town (1941) - Woman (uncredited)
- International Lady (1941) - Weighty Dowager (uncredited)
- Birth of the Blues (1941) - Fat Woman in Cafe (uncredited)
- New York Town (1941) - Mrs. Bixby (uncredited)
- Marry the Boss's Daughter (1941) - Elevator Passenger (uncredited)
- The Night of January 16th (1941) - Heavy Woman (uncredited)
- Two-Faced Woman (1941) - Rhumba Dancer (uncredited)
- My Favorite Blonde (1942) - Woman in Theatre Box (uncredited)
- Ship Ahoy (1942) - Merton's Pianist (uncredited)
- Private Buckaroo (1942) - Dowager (uncredited)
- I Married an Angel (1942) - Mrs. Gabby (uncredited)
- Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942) - Overweight Woman (uncredited)
- Just Off Broadway (1942) - Souvenir Hunter (uncredited)
- Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942) - Customer (uncredited)
- A Night to Remember (1942) - Irate Tenant at Bruhl's Address (uncredited)
- Madame Spy (1942) - Red Cross Woman (uncredited)
- Slightly Dangerous (1943) - Banana Split Customer (uncredited)
- All by Myself (1943) - Mrs. Stone (uncredited)
- Let's Face It (1943) - Mrs. Wigglesworth
- Footlight Glamour (1943) - Mrs. Cora Dithers (uncredited)
- Hi'ya, Sailor (1943) - Plump Hostess (uncredited)
- She's for Me (1943) - Dowager
- True to Life (1943) - Minor Role (uncredited)
- Beautiful But Broke (1944) - Birdie Benson
- Cover Girl (1944) - Food Critic Dipping Soup (uncredited)
- Cowboy and the Senorita (1944) - Fat Woman (uncredited)
- Mrs. Parkington (1944) - Fat Woman at Ball (uncredited)
- Murder in the Blue Room (1944) - Dowager (uncredited)
- Too Young to Kiss (1951) - Chubby Woman Attending Audition (uncredited)
- Flesh and Fury (1952) - Laughing Woman (uncredited)
- Washington Story (1952) - Phone Bit in Montage (uncredited)
- Don't Bother to Knock (1952) - Mrs. McMurdock (uncredited)
- The Turning Point (1952) - Mrs. Martin (uncredited)
- Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953) - Party Guest (uncredited)
- Houdini (1953) - Woman Who Screams (uncredited)
- The Caddy (1953) - Matron at Party (uncredited)
- Money from Home (1953) - Mrs. Cheshire (uncredited)
- Dangerous Mission (1954) - Mrs. Alvord (uncredited)
- The Big Moment (1954)
- Athena (1954) - Mrs. Griswalde (uncredited)
- Foxfire (1955) - Tourist (uncredited)
- Never Say Goodbye (1956) - Gray-Haired Customer in Tavern (uncredited)
- Bigger Than Life (1956) - Mother at PTA Meeting (uncredited)
- Loving You (1957) - Mrs. Gunderson (uncredited) (final film role)
References
edit- ^ a b "Grace Hayle, 74, Made 300 Films". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 24, 1963. p. 21. Retrieved October 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Call Boy's Chat". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 9, 1917. p. 37. Retrieved October 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Knickerbocker". The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 23, 1917. p. 41. Retrieved October 23, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Grace Hayle". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on October 23, 2021. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
- ^ Hal Erickson. "Grace Hayle". AllMovie. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
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