Selena Royle

1904-11-06 New York City, New York, USA

Biografia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Selena Royle (November 6, 1904 – April 23, 1983) was an American actress (of stage, radio, television and film), and later, an author. Royle was born in New York City to playwright Edwin Milton Royle and actress Selena Fetter (April 12, 1860 - May 10, 1955). She had an older sister, Josephine Fetter Royle (1901–1992). Her mother recounted in a newspaper article that she used to take Selena along with her to her rehearsals and performances. One night, then seven-year-old Selena went missing. While the mother frantically searched for her, holding up act two, the audience became restless. The youngster finally turned up - she had gone on stage dressed in her mother's second-act costume; she made a bow, much to the audience's amusement. She later remarked, "And that is the first time I was ever on stage, and I liked it so well I stayed." Her father wrote the 1921 Broadway play Lancelot and Elaine to provide both her and sister Josephine with their first professional roles, as Guinevere and Elaine respectively. Eventually, she landed a part on her own in the 1923 Theatre Guild production of Peer Gynt, with Joseph Schildkraut, and became a respected Broadway actress. She made one film in the 1930s, Misleading Lady, but otherwise worked on the stage and on radio. Royle began her radio career in 1926 or 1927 and performed "almost continuously since", according to a 1939 newspaper item. Her body of work includes playing the title role in Hilda Hope, M.D. She also played Martha Jackson in Woman of Courage, Mrs. Allen in Against the Storm, Joan in The O'Neills, and Mrs. Gardner in Betty and Bob, and appeared in Kate Hopkins. In the 1940s, she returned to film and had a successful run, mainly playing maternal characters such as the bereaved mother of The Fighting Sullivans (1944), mother to Jane Powell in the big screen adaptation of A Date with Judy (1948) and the title character's mother opposite Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc (1948). She made several appearances on early television. However, in 1951, when she refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. She sued the American Legion, which had published Red Channels, in which her name was listed, and won but her acting career ended. She made only three more roles, the last being Murder Is My Beat (1955). She also wrote several books, including Guadalajara: as I Know It, Live It, Love It (which went through several editions) and a couple of cookbooks, and some magazine articles. She was the "radio editor" of the short-lived New York periodical Swank.

Películas

	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage) (uncredited)	1974-06-21
	Murder Is My Beat	Beatrice Abbott	1955-02-27
	Robot Monster	Mother	1953-06-25
	Come Fill the Cup	Mrs. Dolly Copeland	1951-10-24
	He Ran All the Way	Mrs. Dobbs	1951-06-20
	Branded	Mrs. Lavery	1950-11-03
	The Big Hangover	Kate Mahoney	1950-05-26
	The Damned Don't Cry	Patricia Longworth	1950-05-13
	Bad Boy	Judge Florence Prentiss	1949-02-22
	My Dream Is Yours	Freda Hofer	1949-04-15
	You're My Everything	Mrs. Adams	1949-07-22
	The Heiress	Elizabeth Almond	1949-10-06
	Smart Woman	Mrs. Wayne	1948-04-30
	Moonrise	Aunt Jessie	1948-10-01
	Joan of Arc	Isabelle d'Arc, Joan's Mother	1948-12-22
	You Were Meant for Me	Cora Mayhew	1948-01-28
	Summer Holiday	Mrs. Essie Miller	1948-04-15
	A Date with Judy	Mrs. Foster	1948-07-29
	Cass Timberlane	Louise Wargate	1947-11-06
	The Romance of Rosy Ridge	Sairy MacBean	1947-08-04
	Till the End of Time	Mrs. Kincheloe	1946-07-23
	Courage of Lassie	Mrs. Merrick	1946-11-08
	Gallant Journey	Mrs. Zachary Montgomery	1946-09-24
	Night and Day	Kate Porter	1946-07-02
	The Green Years	Mama Leckie	1946-07-04
	No Leave, No Love	Mrs. Hanlon	1946-03-10
	The Harvey Girls	Miss Bliss	1946-01-18
	This Man's Navy	Maude Weaver	1945-01-04
	Main Street After Dark	'Ma' Abby Dibson	1945-01-12
	The Fighting Sullivans	Mrs. Alleta Sullivan	1944-02-03
	Mrs. Parkington	Mattie Trounson	1944-10-12
	Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo	Mrs. Reynolds	1944-11-15
	Stage Door Canteen	Selena Royle	1943-06-24
	The Misleading Lady	Alice Connell	1932-04-15