Violet Heming

Violet Heming
National Magazine (v. 38, 1913)
Born	Violet Hemming January 27, 1895 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Died	July 4, 1981 (aged 86) New York City, New York
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1908-1955
Spouse(s)	Grant Mills(d. 1973) Judge Joel Bennett "Champ" Clark (1945–1954)

Violet Heming (January 27, 1895 - July 4, 1981) was an English stage and screen actress. Born Violet Hemming in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was the daughter of Alfred Hemming who appeared in silent films and Mabel Allen. She began a stage career in 1908 while in her early teens and also appeared in her first motion picture, a short film for Thanhouser Film Company, in 1910. In 1913, she appeared with George Arliss in the play Disraeli.

In September 1925, Variety reported that Heming would appear in a "playlet" for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film system.

Though Heming appeared in several films and television throughout the decades she is best remembered as a dependable Broadway star with a long list of theatrical credits.^[1][2]

She died July 4, 1981 and is interred at Arlington National Cemetery with her second husband, Col. Bennett "Champ" Clark.^[3]

Partial filmography

• The Woman Hater (1910 short)
• Tempest and Sunshine (1910 short)
• Lena Rivers (1910 short)
• The Mermaid (1910)
• Paul and Virginia (1910 film)
• The Running Fight (1915), extant in the Library of Congress
• The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
• The Common Cause (1919)
• Everywoman (1919)
• The Cost (1920)
• When the Desert Calls (1922)
• The Knife (1929 short), made in Fox Movietone
• The Man Who Played God (1932)
• Almost Married (1932)

References

1. Who Was Who on the Screen, 3rd Edit. by Evelyn Mack Truitt, p.328; c.1983
2. Silent Film Necrology, 2nd Edit. by Eugene Michael Vazzana, p.238; c.2001(mention of mother being Mabel Allen)
3. Violet Heming (Clark) at findagrave.com

External links

• Violet Heming at IMDb.com
• Violet Heming at IBDb.com
• baby picture; Violet Heming aged 3