Nydia Westman

Actor

Born: New York City, New York, USA

BIOGRAPHY

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.Westmans parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Childrens School.Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.Westmans career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craigs Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.Westmans screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.Westmans first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Becketts Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.

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