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Hilda Vaughn of 315 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York, a character actress who appeared on the Broadway stage and in more than fifty motion pictures, died yesterday at a hospital here on her sixtieth birthday.
Hilda Vaughn. Actress: Dinner at Eight. Thin and tart-tongued, Baltimore-born theater actress Hilda Vaughn, had a decade of intense activity at the beginning of the sound period, mainly at MGM.
- January 1, 1
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- January 1, 1
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Hilda Vaughn was a Baltimore-born theater actress who had a decade of intense activity at the beginning of the sound period, mainly at MGM. She played plebeian characters with character, such as Tina in "Dinner at Eight" (1933), and was blacklisted by McCarthy during the Witch Hunt.
- December 27, 1897
- December 28, 1957
American character actress. Born Dec 27, 1898, in Baltimore, MD; died Dec 28, 1957, in Baltimore. Broadway appearances include Only the Heart, Jacobowsky and the Colonel, On Whitman Avenue, The Devil's Disciple and Medea; films include Three Live Ghosts, Susan Lenox, Dinner at 8 and Anne of Green Gables.
Skinny but tough, Baltimore native Hilda Vaughn could convincingly play an English Cockney, which she did in her screen debut, Three Live Ghosts (1929). A fixture at MGM in the early '30s, Vaughn made her greatest impact as Jean Harlow's blackmailing domestic in Dinner at Eight.
Hilda Vaughn is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Dinner at Eight, Anne of Green Gables, Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise), The Wedding Night, Today We Live, Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum, Banjo on My Knee, and The Phantom of Crestwood.
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