Phyllis Haver was born Phyllis O'Haver on January 6, 1899, in Douglas, KS. When she was a child her family moved to California. Young Phyllis got a job playing piano at a local movie theater. Producer Mack Sennett saw her and hired her to be one of his "Sennett Bathing Beauties". Between 1916-20 she appeared in more than 35 short films. With her ...
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Although she lived her later years in relative comfort, spending summers in Connecticut and for a time spending winters in an apartment in New York City, she became very lonely towards the end of her life and attempted suicide at least once before her death. She lived alone in her home in Connecticut with a housekeeper and rarely had visitors. According to the housekeeper, Haver especially hated Novembers, as this was the month she and her ex-husband were divorced. They had no children. She became very distraught over the death of her old friend and employer _Mack Sennett_ on November 5, 1960, mainly, according to the housekeeper, because she felt he was the last surviving friend she had from her days as a Hollywood star. Fourteen days after Sennett's death, Haver's housekeeper found her dead in bed, dressed and in full makeup, from an overdose of barbiturates.
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When she married New York millionaire William Seeman in 1929, she was under contract to Cecil B. DeMille. She told DeMille she was ending her contract with him under the "Act of God" clause. Stunned, DeMille asked, "What Act of God?" Haver replied, "If marrying a millionaire isn't an Act of God, I don't know what is." DeMille let her go.
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Retired to marry a Manhattan millionaire in 1929. They divorced in 1945.
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Broke into films as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty after earning a living as a silent movie theater pianist, and quickly mounted the Hollywood sex pedestal in the 20s.
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Silent-screen actress.
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
She Couldn't Say No
1930
Undetermined Role
Thunder
1929
Zella
The Office Scandal
1929
Jerry Cullen
The Shady Lady
1928
Lola Mantell
Sal of Singapore
1928
Sal
The Battle of the Sexes
1928
Marie
Tenth Avenue
1928
Lyla Mason
Chicago
1927
Roxie Hart
The Wise Wife
1927
Helen Blaisdell
The Fighting Eagle
1927
Countess de Launay
The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary
1927
Martha Rankin
Your Wife and Mine
1927
Phyllis Warren
The Way of All Flesh
1927
The Temptress
The Little Adventuress
1927
Victoria Stoddard
No Control
1927
Nancy Flood
Girl in the Rain
1927
Nobody's Widow
1927
Betty Jackson
What Price Glory
1926
Shanghai Mabel
The Nervous Wreck
1926
Sally Morgan
3 Bad Men
1926
Lily
Fig Leaves
1926
Alice Atkins
Don Juan
1926
Imperia (uncredited)
Up in Mabel's Room
1926
Phyllis Wells
Hard Boiled
1926
Justine Morton
Other Women's Husbands
1926
Roxana
The Caveman
1926
Dolly Van Dream
A Fight to the Finish
1925
Mary Corbett
New Brooms
1925
Florence Levering
The Golden Princess
1925
Kate Kent
Rugged Water
1925
Myra Fuller
After Business Hours
1925
Sylvia Vane
I Want My Man
1925
Drusilla
Her Husband's Secret
1925
Pansy La Rue
So Big
1924
Dallas O'Meara
One Glorious Night
1924
Sarah Graham
The Snob
1924
Dorothy Rensheimer
The Breath of Scandal
1924
Clara Simmons
The Foolish Virgin
1924
Jane Sanderson
Single Wives
1924
Marion Eldridge
The Midnight Express
1924
Jessie Sybil
The Perfect Flapper
1924
Gertrude Trayle
The Hollywood Kid
1924
Short
Phyllis Haver
The Fighting Coward
1924
Elvira
Singer Jim McKee
1924
Mary Holden
Lilies of the Field
1924
Gertrude
The Temple of Venus
1923
Constance Lane
The Common Law
1923
Rita Terris
The Bolted Door
1923
Natalie Judson
The Balloonatic
1923
Short
The Young Woman (uncredited)
The Christian
1923
Polly Love
Home Movies
1922
Home Made Movies
1922
Short
The 2nd Theatre Operator's Daughter
Step Forward
1922
Short
Rodney's Sweetheart
Bright Eyes
1921
Short
The Modest Maid
Love and Doughnuts
1921
Short
The Baker's Sweetheart
Love's Outcast
1921
Short
Franklyn's Only Friend
Home Talent
1921
The Landlord's Daughter
The Unhappy Finish
1921
Short
Neglected Wife in Scenario
A Small Town Idol
1921
Mary Brown
On a Summer Day
1921
Short
Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
Love, Honor and Behave!
1920
Mrs. Milton Robbin
Movie Fans
1920
Short
Minor Role (uncredited)
Married Life
1920
College Belle
Ten Dollars or Ten Days
1920
Short
A Lady's Tailor
1919
Short
Audience Spectator (uncredited)
His Last False Step
1919
Short
The Haberdasher's Wife
Salome vs. Shenandoah
1919
Short
Actress Playing Salome
Up in Alf's Place
1919
Short
Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
The Dentist
1919
Short
Minor Role (uncredited)
Among Those Present
1919
Short
Her Husband's Hobby
Trying to Get Along
1919
Short
Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
Hearts and Flowers
1919
Short
A Prune Magnate's Daughter
When Love Is Blind
1919
Short
The Blonde
Why Beaches Are Popular
1919
Short
Bathing Girl
The Foolish Age
1919
Short
The Banker's Daughter
The Village Smithy
1919
Short
The Would-be Bride
Yankee Doodle in Berlin
1919
Minor Role (uncredited)
East Lynne with Variations
1919
Short
Minor Role (uncredited)
Never Too Old
1919
Short
The Partner's Wife
The Village Chestnut
1918
Short
Undetermined Secondary Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
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