
Phyllis Haver
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1899-01-05
Day of Death
1960-11-19 (61 years old)
Place of Birth
Douglass, Kansas, USA
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.
Acting
(1949)
Down Memory Lane
as (archive footage)
(1943)
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
as (archive footage)
(1939)
A Small Town Idol
as Mary Brown
(1930)
She Couldn't Say No
as Showgirl
(1929)
The Office Scandal
as Jerry Cullen
(1929)
Thunder
as Zella
(1928)
Sal of Singapore
as Sal
(1928)
The Battle of the Sexes
as Marie Skinner
(1928)
Tenth Avenue
as Lyla Mason
(1927)
Chicago
as Roxie Hart
(1927)
The Way of All Flesh
as The Temptress
(1927)
The Fighting Eagle
as Countess de Launay
(1927)
The Wise Wife
as Helen Blaisdell
(1927)
The Little Adventuress
as Victoria Stoddard
(1927)
Nobody's Widow
as Betty Johnson
(1926)
The Cave Man
as Dolly Van Dream
(1926)
Don Juan
as Imperia (uncredited)
(1926)
Other Women's Husbands
as Roxana
(1926)
3 Bad Men
as Lily
(1926)
Up in Mabel's Room
as Phyllis Wells
(1926)
What Price Glory
as Shanghai Mabel
(1926)
The Nervous Wreck
as Sally Morgan
(1926)
Fig Leaves
as Alice Atkins
(1926)
Hard Boiled
as Justine Morton
(1925)
Rugged Water
as Myra Fuller
(1925)
The Golden Princess
as Kate Kent
(1925)
(1925)
After Business Hours
as Sylvia Vane
(1924)
So Big
as Dallas O'Meara
(1924)
(1924)
Lilies of the Field
as Gertrude
(1924)
The Snob
as Dorothy Rensheimer
(1924)
The Midnight Express
as Jessie Sybil
(1924)
Singer Jim Mckee
as Mary Holden
(1924)
The Hollywood Kid
as Self
(1924)
One Glorious Night
as Sarah Graham
(1924)
The Perfect Flapper
as Gertrude Trayle
(1924)
The Fighting Coward
as Elvira
(1923)
The Balloonatic
as The Young Woman
(1923)
The Temple of Venus
as Constance Lane
(1923)
The Common Law
as Rita Terris
(1923)
The Christian
as Polly Love
(1922)
Step Forward
as Rodney's Sweetheart
(1921)
A Small Town Idol
as Mary Brown
(1921)
Love and Doughnuts
as The Baker's Sweetheart
(1921)
Bright Eyes
as The Modest Maid
(1920)
Down on the Farm
as Herself - in Prologue
(1919)
Hearts and Flowers
as Prune Magnate's Daughter
(1919)
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
as Minor Role (uncredited)
(1919)
Why Beaches Are Popular
as Bathing Girl
(1918)
It Pays to Exercise
as Dental Assistant
(1917)
The Sultan's Wife
as Harem Girl (uncredited/unconfirmed)
(1917)
'49–'17
as Young Bee Adams
(1916)