Mary Hay (actress)

Mary Hay was an American dancer, musical comedy and silent screen actress, playwright and former Ziegfeld girl, active over the decade popularly known as the Roaring Twenties.

Mary Hay Caldwell was born at Fort Bliss in Texas, the daughter of Frank Merrill Caldwell , a West Point graduate and noted career army officer, and Mary Hay , the daughter of an Oshkosh, Wisconsin hardware merchant. Hay was a graduate of the Anna Head School for Girls in Berkeley and had studied dance at Ruth St. Denis Denishawn studio in Los Angeles. During this period film directors would often recruit Denis students to fill minor dancing roles, a process that one day led to Hay being chosen by D. W. Griffith to play the little French dancer in the 1918 World War I film, Hearts of the World.

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