Nydia Westman
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Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.
Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School.
Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.
Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.
Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.
She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.
Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).
She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.
Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.
Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
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Nydia Westman
Mrs. Smith
... 1970
... 1969
Aunt Zana
... 1967
Aunt Cora
... 1966
Mrs. Henderson
... 1966
Mrs. Cobb
... 1966
Milo's Wife
... 1963
... 1962
Serena Applegate
... 1956
White Queen
... 1950
Susan Crane
... 1948
Jane Willing
... 1947
Aunt Penolope
... 1944
Mrs. Bowers (uncredited)
... 1943
Nurse Willing
... 1943
Lewis, M.J.'s Secretary
... 1942
Miss Van Buren
... 1942
Liesel - Maid
... 1941
Angela Hardy
... 1941
Lulu Perkins
... 1940
Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
... 1940
Cicily
... 1939
Lulu
... 1939
Gwen Longworth
... 1938
Midge
... 1938
... 1938
Gwen Longworth
... 1937
'Dotty' Leonard
... 1937
Susie Reynolds
... 1936
Slavey - Hotel Maid
... 1936
Mazie
... 1936
Maybelle
... 1936
Briggs (uncredited)
... 1936
Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
... 1936
Emily Judson
... 1935
Anne Trepied
... 1935
Gertie
... 1935
Nellie
... 1934
Susie Flamberg
... 1934
Muriel
... 1934
Annette
... 1934
Carmela Ramirez
... 1934
Dinah McCabe
... 1934
Corie
... 1934
Mamie
... 1933
Sister Sagrario
... 1933
Annette
... 1933
Irma
... 1933
... 1933
Sue Wells
... 1933
Miss Wood
... 1932
Gwen
... 1932