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Acteur dans 32 films

Né(e) le 19 février 1902

Mort le 23 mai 1970 (à 68 ans)

Nydia Westman

Acteur dans

1967

  • The Reluctant Astronaut

1966

  • The Swinger
  • La Poursuite impitoyable
  • Le Fantôme et M. Chicken

1963

  • Trois filles a mariér

1962

  • Don't Knock the Twist

1948

  • The Velvet Touch

1943

  • La Petite Exilée

1942

  • They All Kissed the Bride

1940

  • Hullabaloo

1939

  • Le Mystère de la maison Norman
  • Veillée d'amour

1938

  • Bulldog Drummond's Peril
  • The First Hundred Years

1936

  • Pennies from Heaven
  • Craig's Wife
  • L'enchanteresse
  • Le Rayon invisible

1935

  • A Feather in Her Hat
  • Captain Hurricane

1934

  • Sweet Adeline
  • One Night of Love
  • Les femmes devraient écouter
  • Manhattan Love Song
  • Success At Any Price
  • Two Alone

1933

  • Les quatre filles du docteur March
  • Bondage
  • King of the Jungle
  • From Hell to Heaven

1932

  • Manhattan Tower
  • Strange Justice
This adorable character actress, born February 19,1902, in New York City, tended to play older than she really was on stage, screen and TV. Petite and quite pretty in her youth, Nydia Westman was born in 1902 to vaudevillian parents, actor-composer Theodore Westman and actress-playwright Lily Wren, and was thrust into the limelight at an early age as part of the family act ("Troubles of Joy"). Her younger brother, Theodore Westman Jr., was also an actor/writer who died tragically at a very young age in 1927. In her teens, Nydia grew in experience on the Orpheum, Ziegfeld and Keith circuits, and later made her Broadway debut with the comedy "Pigs" in 1924. A mainstay throughout the late 1920s, other prominent NY theater roles include "Two Girled Wanted" (1926), "Jonesy" (1929) and "Lysistrata" (1930). With the advent of sound, films soon became a viable medium for her as well. She began her movie career in 1932 featured in two dramas, Strange Justice (1932) and Manhattan Tower (1932) and, while she appeared in plenty more heavier material, including Success at Any Price (1934), Craig's Wife (1936) and The Gorgeous Hussy (1936), it was comedy that became her forte, lending cute and flighty foil support in Ladies Should Listen (1934) with Cary Grant, The Cat and the Canary (1939) with Bob Hope, The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with William Holden, and The Late George Apley (1947) with Ronald Colman, among others. Elsewhere, she gave her usual sparkle in the glossy musicals Sweet Adeline (1934), in which she joined Irene Dunne and others in the title song, Pennies from Heaven (1936), Hullabaloo (1940), The Chocolate Soldier (1941) and Hers to Hold (1943), playing assorted friends, maids, gossips and society types. In the post WWII years, Nydia veered away from filming and concentrated instead on stage and TV work. On Broadway, she appeared in "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1948), "The Emperor's New Clothes" (1953) and "The Sleeping Prince" (1956), and went on to win an Obie Award for her off-Broadway eccentrics in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" (1958). On TV, the small, round matron was featured in a number of showcase-type dramas and comedies and was a fluttery, twinkle-eyed delight on such programs as "The Donna Reed Show" (1958), "Perry Mason" (1957), "The Addams Family" (1964), "The Munsters" (1964), "F Troop" (1965), "Family Affair" (1966) and "Bewitched" (1964). She also appeared with relative frequency on the revamped "Dragnet 1967" (1967) series in the 1960s. Nydia died of cancer May 23, 1970, in Burbank, California, and was survived by her daughter.





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