Born 1895 as Selma Wanda Pittack in Scranton, Pennsylvania, American actress Wanda Hawley entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the United States and Canada as a singer.
Hawley initially began in films acting with the likes of William Farnum, William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks, and others. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922 The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B. DeMille’s and director Sam Wood’s films.
Hawley died in 1963 in Los Angeles, California, aged 67. Take a look at these vintage photos to see portraits of young Wanda Hawley in the 1910s and 1920s.
