Ormetta Grace Hawley (February 21, 1889,

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—June 3, 1942,

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) was an American actress. Hawley attended the

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. She began her acting career in live theatre with a stock theater company in Boston before turning to the new

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industry in 1911 with

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. Over her short film career she reportedly appeared in more than three hundred motion pictures, a large number of which would have been short films. She made her last film in 1919. Hawley was married to Charles Fulcher, with whom she operated a farm near Camden, New York, for the last 15 years of her life. She also painted portraits and wrote stories for children. She died in a hospital in

, on June 3, 1942.

Selected filmography

*'' Twixt Love and Ambition'' (1912) *'' Where Love Leads'' (1916) *'' The Antics of Ann'' (1917) * '' Runaway Romany'' (1917) * '' The Ordeal of Rosetta'' (1918) *'' Mrs. Dane's Defense'' (1918) *'' The Road Called Straight'' (1919) *'' The Splendid Romance'' (1919) * ''

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'' (1919)

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Ormi Hawley portrait
1889 births 1942 deaths American film actresses American silent film actresses 20th-century American actresses People from Holyoke, Massachusetts People from Rome, New York American stage actresses Actresses from Massachusetts New England Conservatory alumni {{US-film-actor-1880s-stub