Full Name Olive Frances Role Film actress Name Gloria Hope | Years active 1917-1926 Occupation Actress | |
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Born November 9, 1901 ( 1901-11-09 ) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Died October 29, 1976, Pasadena, California, United States Spouse Lloyd Hughes (m. 1921–1958) Movies Tess of the Storm Country, The Guilty Man, The Law of the North Children Donald Reid Hughes, Isabel Francies Hughes Similar People Lloyd Hughes, John S Robertson, Irvin Willat | ||
Gloria Hope (November 9, 1901 – October 29, 1976) was an American silent film actress.
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Life and career
She was born as Olive Frances in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1901. Following her education at a Newark, New Jersey, school, she entered upon her career as a screen player and played successively with Ince, Triangle, Artcraft, Ince Paramount, Paralta, Universal and Goldwyn. Naughty, Naughty, The Gay Lord Quex, Burglar by Proxy, The Hushed Hour, The Great Love, and Outcasts of Poker Flat were a few of the many screen plays she appeared in. In 1920, Who's Who on the Screen reported that Hope was 5 feet 2 inches (1.57 m) high, weighed 106 pounds (48 kg) and had a light complexion, auburn hair and blue eyes.
She was signed in 1917 and starred in about 30 films before her retirement in 1926 at age 25 to have children.
She starred with William Garwood in films such as The Guilty Man in 1918, and with Mary Pickford and Lloyd Hughes in Tess of the Storm Country in 1922.
She married Lloyd Hughes on June 30, 1921, and they had children Donald and Isabel.
She died in Pasadena, California.
She is interred at Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, near her husband, Lloyd Hughes.