Hope Emerson
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican actress (1897-1960)
Hope Emerson was an American actress, vaudevillian, nightclub performer, and strongwoman. Emerson started acting when she was three years old during a production with her mother. Her career started when she advertised sheet music by playing the piano at a 10-cent store.
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Filmography 21
Adam's Rib
Thieves' Highway
Westward the Women
Caged
House of Strangers
Cry of the City
Rock-a-Bye Baby
The Guns of Fort Petticoat
Copper Canyon
All Mine to Give
Casanova's Big Night
Untamed
Double Crossbones
Roseanna McCoy
A Perilous Journey
Dancing in the Dark
Belle Le Grand
Champ for a Day
The Lady Wants Mink
Rough Necking
Let's Join Joanie33 credits on file
Television 10
Peter Gunn
Studio One
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Red Skelton Show
The 20th Century Fox Hour
This Is Your Life
General Electric Theater
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
The Dennis O'Keefe ShowConnected to Hope 6
About this person
Hope Emerson was an American actress, vaudevillian, nightclub performer, and strongwoman. Emerson started acting when she was three years old during a production with her mother. Her career started when she advertised sheet music by playing the piano at a 10-cent store. Emerson made her Broadway debut in Lysistrata in 1930. She starred in other plays, radio programs, films, television shows, and commercials. She often played the role of a villain in comedies and dramas. Emerson's performance in Caged "became the standard model for women's prison films." Her roles included being a circus strongwoman, a nefarious masseuse-conspirator, a mail-order bride, and a prison warden.
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