Hetta Bartlett

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Hetta Bartlett in 1900

Hetta Bartlett (1 May 1877 – May 1947) was an English stage and film actress whose career spanned both the West End and Broadway.

Early life[]

She was born in Tottenham in London as Henrietta Elizabeth Bartlett, the daughter of Sarah Henrietta née Field (1851–1918) and Onesimus Smart Bartlett (1848–1921),[1] a solicitor of Bartlett & Roberts who was Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority in Dartmouth in Devon; by 1891 he was Clerk to the Magistrates' Court in Paignton.[2] In 1903 he would be jailed for embezzlement.[3][4]

Acting career[]

(L to R) Charles Hawtrey, Hetta Bartlett, Mona Harrison and Wallace Widdecombe in A Message from Mars (1905)

By 1899 aged 22 Hetta Bartlett was acting in the Company of Charles Hawtrey including his tour of America in the 1900s.[5] In 1900 she played the lead female role in the UK tour of Lord and Lady Algy.[6] Her stage appearances with Charles Hawtrey include: Miss Bramshott in at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1902);[7] Mrs Ditchwater in The Man from Blankley's at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1903);[8] in the revival of A Message from Mars at the Criterion Theatre on Broadway (1903)[9] and again at the Princes Theatre (1904) and at the Avenue Theatre;[10] (1905). Other roles include: What the Butler Saw at the Garrick Theatre on Broadway in New York (1906);[11][12] Mrs Patterson in at the Adelphi Theatre (1910);[13] as Miss Ricketts in Jerome K. Jerome's The Master of Mrs Chilvers at the Royalty Theatre (1911);[14] Countess of Skene and Skye in Jelf's at Wyndham's Theatre (1912), and Broomhall in Billy's Fortune at the Criterion Theatre (1913).[13] Bartlett's later stage roles include: Marchioness of Queenstown in In Nelson's Days at the Shaftesbury Theatre (1922).[15]

Personal life[]

Hetta Bartlett at the time of her marriage in 1899

In 1899 she married the dramatic author Metcalfe Henry Wood (1864–1944)[5][16] at Totnes in Devon. The marriage was dissolved by 1911 when Bartlett was living alone at 14a Albert Embankment in London.[17] In 1939 she was living in Marylebone in London and described herself as an actress and 'Widowed' on the official register.[18]

Hetta Bartlett died aged 70 in May 1947 in Dartford in Kent.

Filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ 1881 England Census for Henrietta E. Bartlett: Middlesex, Tottenham - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  2. ^ 1891 England Census for Henrietta E Bartlett: Devon, Paignton - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  3. ^ The Building of the Dartmouth Embankment - By The Dart: Anything and Everything About Dartmouth
  4. ^ Hackney Express And Shoreditch Observer - Newspaper Archives: May 23, 1903 Page 4
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Hetta Bartlett - The Sketch - 20 September 1899 pg 374
  6. ^ Miss Hetta Bartlett - The Sketch 8 August 1900 pg. 101
  7. ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books pg. 97
  8. ^ Wearing, pgs. 53-54
  9. ^ Cast of A Message from Mars = Broadway World website
  10. ^ Wearing, pg 247
  11. ^ Hetta Bartlett - Internet Broadway Database
  12. ^ Hetta Bartlett on Playbill
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books
  14. ^ Jerome K. Jerome, The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy, Read Books Ltd (2013) - Google Books
  15. ^ J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books pg 153
  16. ^ 1901 England Census for Henrietta E Wood: Sussex, Hove - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  17. ^ 1911 England Census for Henrietta Elizabeth Bartlett: London, Lambeth, Kennington - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  18. ^ 1939 England and Wales Register for Hetta Bartlett - London, St Marylebone Met B - Ancestry.com (subscription required)
  19. ^ Rachael Low, History of British Film (Volume 4): The History of the British Film 1918 - 1929, Routledge (2011) - Google Books pg. 410
  20. ^ Hetta Bartlett - British Film Institute database

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