Nydia Westman
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Known for
Credits
Captain Hurricane (1935)
as Gertie
The Chase (1966)
as Mrs. Henderson
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
as Mrs. Cobb
Bondage (1933)
as Irma
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
as Maybelle
One Night of Love (1934)
as Muriel
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
as Lewis, M.J.'s Secretary
Little Women (1933)
as Mamie
Princess O'Rourke (1943)
as Mrs. Bowers (uncredited)
The Swinger (1966)
as Aunt Cora
The Velvet Touch (1948)
as Susan Crane
The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
as Miss Van Buren
Pennies from Heaven (1936)
as Slavey - Hotel Maid
Her Primitive Man (1944)
as Aunt Penolope
Forty Little Mothers (1940)
as Madamoiselle Cynthia Cliche
For Love or Money (1963)
as Milo's Wife
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
as Cicily
Craig's Wife (1936)
as Mazie
The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
as Ada
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967)
as Aunt Zana
Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
as Gwen Longworth
The Invisible Ray (1936)
as Briggs (uncredited)
The Ford Theatre Hour: Alice in Wonderland (1950)
as White Queen
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
as Lulu
Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)
as Gwen Longworth
Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
as Mae
Success at Any Price (1934)
as Dinah McCabe
Rabbit, Run (1970)
as Mrs. Smith
The First Hundred Years (1938)
as Midge
A Feather in Her Hat (1935)
as Emily Judson
Hers to Hold (1943)
as Nurse Willing
The Bad Man (1941)
as Angela Hardy
Don't Knock the Twist (1962)
as Amy
King of the Jungle (1933)
as Sue
Two Alone (1934)
as Corie
The Late George Apley (1947)
as Jane Willing
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
as Liesel - Maid
Rose Bowl (1936)
as Susie Reynolds
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
as Susi Flamberg
Three Live Ghosts (1936)
as Peggy 'Peg' Woofers
Bloomer Girl (1956)
as Serena Applegate
Manhattan Love Song (1934)
as Annette
Manhattan Tower (1932)
as Miss Wood
The Way to Love (1933)
as Annette
Dressed to Thrill (1935)
as Anne Trepied
Cradle Song (1933)
as Sister Sagrario
Hullabaloo (1940)
as Lulu Perkins
The Trumpet Blows (1934)
as Carmela Ramirez
Sweet Adeline (1934)
as Nellie
From Hell to Heaven (1933)
as Sue Wells
When Love Is Young (1937)
as 'Dotty' Leonard
Strange Justice (1932)
as Gwen