Louise Huntington

Who was Louise Huntington?

Louise Huntington, was a stage and screen actress appearing on Broadway in the 1920s and on screen in the 1930s.

Her film career included silent movies as well as some of the first sound productions. The Viking, in which she appeared in 1931, was the first Canadian-produced film to include sound. Huntington's stage career took her overseas and she is reported to be the first American woman to perform in South Africa. Later in life Huntington continued performing on stage and on television. She also directed theater and continued to act in commercials into her 80's. She was married to Robert Roberts, whom she later divorced. Her second husband was Sydney Houston who died in the mid-1970s. She died in Summit, New Jersey in 1997.