Olive Hasbrouck

Hasbrouck was born in Lewiston, Idaho, the daughter of Van Wagenen Hasbrouck and Ladia Marguerite Pingree Hasbrouck. Her father was an attorney.^[3] Her grandfather was Sol Hasbrouck, an Idaho pioneer and politician.^[4] She and her mother moved from Boise to Hollywood for her health.^[5] Hasbrouck attended Hollywood High School until she started getting film roles.^[6]

Hasbrouck began working in films as an extra at Universal City.^[7] When she was 17, she won the lead female roles in Ridgeway of Montana (1924)^[5] and in Big Timber (1924) opposite William Desmond.^[8] By 1925 she was considered a star, leading the cast in Two Blocks Away.^[6][9] She was a skilled rider,^[10] athletic and willing to do stunts,^[6] so most of her roles were in silent Westerns.^[2][11] She also appeared in an early sound comedy^[12] set at sea, Clear the Decks (1929) with Reginald Denny.^[13] Louella Parsons described Hasbrouck as resembling Norma Talmadge.^[14]

In January 1929, Hasbrouck signed with First National; she co-starred with Philippe de Lacy and Ken Maynard in The Royal Rider (1929), which turned out to be her last film.^[15][16][17]

Hasbrouck's younger brother died in an explosion in 1926.^[18] She retired from the movie industry just as sound films were introduced,^[19] when she married Nelson Paul Whittier (son of oil executive and real estate developer Max Whittier) in 1930.^[20] They had children, Laddia^[21] and Peter,^[22] and lived on a cattle ranch in Yucaipa,^[23] and in a penthouse in Westwood.^[24] She died in 1976, at the age of 68, in San Diego.^[25]