Wanda Hawley — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

One of the few screen stars that have never had stage experience is Wanda Hawley. She was born in Scranton, Pa., July 30, 1897.

She received her education at the Union High School in Bremerton, Wash. Then she became interested in music and traveled to New York, where she attended the Master School of Music in Brooklyn. There she studied the piano and composing. Miss Hawley continued her study of music at the University of Washington, Seattle, and then began her concert tour through the United States and Canada.

Then the moving picture world called her and she gave up her music to play a lead in a Fox Film with Stuart Holmes. That was in 1917.

Since then her success has been rapid.

One of her first featured roles was in an all-star Cecil De Mille [Cecil B. DeMille] production titled “We Can’t Have Everything.”

Other special features followed in which Miss Hawley played a lead. Those included “For Better or Worse,” “Secret Service,” Old Wives for New, “Everywoman,” “The Tree of Knowledge,” “The Six Best Sellers,” “Mrs. Temple’s Telegram,” “Held by the Enemy” and many others.

Then she became a star for Realart and her first starring vehicle was “Miss Hobbs.” Then followed “Food for Scandal,” “Her Beloved Villain,” “Her First Elopement,” “The House That Jazz Built,” “The Snob,” “Her Face Value,” “Bobbed Hair,” “The Truthful Liar” and The Affairs of Anatol.

Miss Hawley is a blonde, with blue eyes; is five feet three inches in height, and weighs 125 pounds.

Her hobby is composing music and playing the piano. She lives with her husband in Hollywood. Miss Hawley motors, swims, plays golf and indulges in all outdoor sports.

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Portrait by Sykes • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)