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Gladys McConnell

From Wikipedia Gladys McConnell (October 22, 1905 – March 4, 1979) was an American film actress and aviator. She was born in Oklahoma City, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).[1] She was the daughter of William Marshall McConnell (born April 28, 1876, McNairy County, Tennessee) and his wife, Harriet (née Sharp; born October 10, 1882, Newbern, Tennessee), and had a sister, Hazel. Gladys McConnell attended Hollywood High School. Her film career was brief, about four years from the late silent to early sound era (1926 – 1930). She sometimes used the professional name Gladys Morrow. One of her first parts came in The Devil Horse (1926). The film featured Rex the Wonder Horse, a stallion featured in at least fifteen films. She starred with Harry Langdon in Three's A Crowd (1927). In The Chaser (1928), as Langdon's talkative wife. She broke ties with the Fox Film Company over differences over her roles, choosing to freelance instead. She was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1927. WAMPAS (Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers) was a Hollywood promotional campaign that selected thirteen baby stars (slang at the time for starlets) as most likely to gain success. Others in the 1927 group included Iris Stuart, Natalie Kingston, Sally Phipps, and Rita Carewe. McConnell married Arthur Q. Hazerman in 1926; they divorced three years later. In September 1931, she married Hollywood attorney, A. Ronald Button, at the Mission Inn in Riverside, California. William Jennings Bryan Jr., a friend of the bridegroom, was best man at the wedding. McConnell was attended by her sister, Mrs. Harold O. Wright. They had a daughter, Mary Barbara Button (b. February 9, 1937, Los Angeles), now known as Barbara McAllister, a commercial real estate broker. McConnell became an aviator and began flying in Portland. Aside from Ruth Elder, she logged more air hours than any woman in the film colony. Gladys McConnell died in Fullerton, California in 1979, aged 73.


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Born:
Oct 22, 1905
Movie/TV Credits:
9
First Appeared:
In the movie A Trip to Chinatown 1926-06-06
Latest Project:
Movie Parade of the West 1930-01-19
Known For
Poster of Cheyenne
Poster of The Glorious Trail
Poster of The Chaser
Poster of Rex the Devil Horse
Filmography
Movie Parade of the West Mary Owens 1930-01-19
Movie Cheyenne Violet Wentworth 1929-02-03
Movie The Code of the Scarlet Helen Morgan 1928-07-01
Movie The Chaser The Wife 1928-02-12
Movie The Glorious Trail Alice Harper 1928-10-28
Movie Three's a Crowd Gladys - the Girl 1927-08-28
Movie A Trip to Chinatown Marion Haste 1926-06-06
Movie Rex the Devil Horse Marion Morrow 1926-09-11
Movie The Flying Horseman June Savary 1926-09-05