Hilda Vaughn(1897-1957)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
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. Although she always played a pleb (a maid, a charwoman,
a governess, a saleswoman, a slavey, ...) and never a patrician, the
characters she embodied did not lack ... character! Which is best
exemplified by her best part, Tina,
Jean Harlow's blackmailing domestic in
George Cukor's "Dinner at Eight" (1933).
After 1940, Hilda Vaughn returned to the theatre. She was blacklisted
by McCarthy during the Witch Hunt.
