Gloria Hope was an American silent film

Silent film

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 actress.

Her original given name was Olive Frances.

Life and career

She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, in 1901. Following her education at a Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey

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, school, she entered upon her career as a screen player and played successively with Ince

Thomas H. Ince

Thomas Harper Ince was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul. Known as the "Father of the Western", he invented many mechanisms of professional movie production, introducing early Hollywood to the "assembly line"...

, Triangle

Triangle Film Corporation

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, Artcraft, Ince Paramount

Paramount Pictures

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, Paralta, Universal

Universal Studios

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 and Goldwyn

Goldwyn Pictures

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. 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 in 2 in (1.57 m) high, weighed 106 pounds (48.1 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 27 to have children.

She starred with William Garwood

William Garwood

William Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....

 in films such as The Guilty Man

The Guilty Man

The Guilty Man is a 1918 American silent drama directed by Irvin Willat and starring William Garwood, Vivian Reed and Gloria Hope. The film was based on a play by Charles Klein.-Cast:*Vivian Reed.... Marie Dubois*Gloria Hope .... Claudine Flambon...

in 1918, and with Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-born motion picture actress, co-founder of the film studio United Artists and one of the original 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 and Lloyd Hughes in Tess of the Storm Country

Tess of the Storm Country (1922 film)

Tess of the Storm Country is a 1922 melodrama starring Mary Pickford, directed by John S. Robertson, and based upon a Grace Miller White novel. The movie was remade a decade later as a sound version starring Janet Gaynor.-Production:...

in 1922.

She married Lloyd Hughes

Lloyd Hughes

Lloyd Hughes was an American silent film actor.-Life and career:Born in Bisbee, Arizona, Hughes received his education at the Los Angeles Polytechnic School. He sought a career as an actor early in life, and his clean-cut appearance and ability soon gained him recognition...

 on June 30, 1921, and they had children Donald and Isabel.

She died in Pasadena

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, California

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.

1920s

• Sandy (1926) .... Judith Moore
• That Devil Quemado (1925) .... Joanna Thatcher
• Tess of the Storm Country
  Tess of the Storm Country (1922 film)
  Tess of the Storm Country is a 1922 melodrama starring Mary Pickford, directed by John S. Robertson, and based upon a Grace Miller White novel. The movie was remade a decade later as a sound version starring Janet Gaynor.-Production:...
  
  (1922) .... Teola Graves
• Trouble (1922) .... Mrs. Lee, the Plumber's Wife
• The Grim Comedian (1921) .... Dorothy
• Courage (1921) .... Eve Hamish
• Colorado (1921) .... Kitty Doyle
• Prairie Trails (1920) .... Alice Endicott
• The Texan (1920) .... Alice Marcum
• Seeds of Vengeance (1920) .... Mary Reddin
• The Desperate Hero (1920) .... Mabel Darrow
• The Third Woman (1920) .... Marcelle Riley

1910s

• Too Much Johnson (1919) .... Leonora Faddish
• The Gay Lord Quex (1919) .... Muriel Eden
• Rider of the Law (1919) .... Betty
• Burglar by Proxy (1919) .... Dorothy Mason
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1919) .... Ruth Watson/Sophy, the girl
• Bill Apperson's Boy (1919) .... Martha Yarton
• The Hushed Hour (1919) .... Annie Vierge
• The Heart of Rachael (1918) .... Magsie Clay
• The Law of the North (1918) .... Virginie de Montcalm
• The Great Love (1918) .... Jessie Lovewell
• $5,000 Reward (1918) .... Margaret Hammersley
• Free and Equal (1918) .... Margaret Lowell
• Naughty, Naughty! (1918) .... Judith Holmes
• The Guilty Man (1918) .... Claudine Flambon
• Time Locks and Diamonds (1917) .... Marjory Farrel

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