Julia Hoyt
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September 15, 1897
Sarah G. Jewett
Julia Hoyt | |
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 Hoyt in a 1920 portrait by E.O. Hoppé, as published in a 1922 issue of Tattler | |
| Born | Julia Wainwright Robbins September 15, 1897 |
| Died | October 31, 1955 (aged 58) |
| Spouses | Lydig Hoyt
(m. 1914; div. 1924)Aquila C. Giles (m. 1935) |
| Parent(s) | Julian W. Robbins Sarah G. Jewett |
| Relatives | Hugh J. Jewett (grandfather) |
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Julia Hoyt (September 15, 1897 – October 31, 1955) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.
Julia Wainwright Robbins was born in 1897, the daughter of Julian W. Robbins and Sarah Guthrie (née Jewett) Robbins (1862–1939). Her grandfather Hugh Judge Jewett was president of the Erie Railroad and a congressman from Ohio.[1]
Career
Julia Robbins performed on stage as a debutante in charity entertainments.[2] Films she appeared in included The Wonderful Thing (1921) with Norma Talmadge, The Man Who Found Himself (1925), and Camille (1926). During World War I, she lent her image and name to an American Red Cross campaign for the employment of disabled veterans.[3]
On Broadway,[4] she was in a revival of The Squaw Man (1921) by Edwin Milton Royle,[5] Rose Briar (1922) by Booth Tarkington,[6] The Virgin of Bethulia (1925) by Gladys Buchanan Unger, The School for Scandal (1925), The Pearl of Great Price (1926), The Dark (1927), Mrs. Dane's Defense (1928), Within the Law (1928) by Bayard Veiller, Sherlock Holmes (1928), Serena Blandish (1929), The Rhapsody (1930) by Louis K. Anspacher, The Wiser they Are (1931), and Hay Fever (1931–32) by Noël Coward, with Constance Collier.
Her fashion business, named Julia Hoyt Modes, designed dresses and coats sold in department stores across the United States. She wrote syndicated articles about etiquette and fashion.[7][8] In 1924, she wrote a series of reports from a European trip for the Bridgeport Post.[9]
