Hilda Simms

Hilda Simms was an AfricanAmerican stage actress, best known for her starring role on Broadway in Anna Lucasta.

Hilda Simms was born Hilda Moses in Minneapolis, Minnesota, one of eleven siblings. When Simms starred in the critically acclaimed Broadway hit, Anna Lucasta, her mother Lydia refused to attend the play on Broadway, stating that she would not watch her daughter play a prostitute as she didnt raise her that way. Simms and her siblings were raised devout Catholics in Minneapolis and walked several miles to school each morning to attend the Basilica of St. Mary on the outskirts of Minneapolis.

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