1228) Claire Waldoff

Claire Waldoff (1884 – 1957, born Clara Wortmann). German singer and kabarett entertainer.
She made her breakthrough when Rudolf Nelson gave her a job at the Roland von Berlin theatre near Potsdamer Platz. Initially planning to perform antimilitarist pieces by Paul Scheerbart in a men's suit, Waldoff had greater success with less offensive catchy songs written by Walter Kollo. During the next several years in German cabaret, she sang at Chat Noir on Friedrichstraße and at the Linden-Cabaret on Unter den Linden.
Waldoff's success reached its peak in the Weimar Republic era of the 1920s. After the war, she lost her savings in the West German monetary reform of 1948 and from 1951 relied on little monetary support by the Senate of Berlin.

- "Head of flaming red hair tipped slightly back, one eyebrow mockingly raised..."  http://www.fembio.org/…/bio…/woman/biography/claire-waldoff/

- "... she was short and stocky with wild red hair and had adopted the gruff persona and brash slang of a ‘native Berliner’."  http://www.cabaret-berlin.com/?p=114

- "A short, stocky, square-faced woman with bright red hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1228) Margot Hielscher

Margot Hielscher (1919 – 2017). German singer and film actress. She appeared in over fifty films between and 1939 and 1994.
In 1957 she was chosen to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957 with the song "Telefon, Telefon". The song finished fourth out of ten, with eight points.
Hielscher was chosen again to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 1958 with the song "Für Zwei Groschen Musik" (Music For Two Pennies). The song finished seventh out of ten, with 5 points.

- "Also as a presenter proved the red-haired talent."  http://westernboothill.blogspot.com/…/rip-margot-hielscher.…

- "Trade Mark: Red hair."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383164/bio

 

 

1227) Rosabell Glass

Rosabell Glass (1880-1971). American history teacher at Ballard High School and Lincoln High School. In 1918 she volunteered with the YMCA to help with World War I in France and was stationed in a YMCA entertainment section in Brest.
After the war, she returned to Seattle to continue teaching. She taught nine years at Franklin High School before becoming the first girl's advisor at Roosevelt High School, where she founded the Aurora Guards, a group composed entirely of red heads. This group was responsible for entertaining visitors and helping new students integrate into the school. Glass was also an associate editor for the pro-women's suffrage newspaper Votes for Women. 

- "She is quoted saying, "I've got red hair, I know how to rough it..."  https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009860160

- "The group's founder was Roosevelt High School's girls guidance counselor, Rose Glass, a flamboyant redhead..."  https://reunionswithclass.com/Images/Docs/GV2016Spring.pdf…

1226) Mary Beth Hughes

Mary Elizabeth Hughes (1919 – 1995). American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies.
In 1940 she was offered a contract with 20th Century-Fox. Later that year she landed a role opposite John Barrymore in The Great Profile, a part she later noted as one of her favorites. Fox did not renew her contract when it expired in 1943 and the following year she began appearing in a nightclub act and soon signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures.
Her most famous role was as Henry Fonda's former girlfriend in the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Ox-Bow Incident (1943). Throughout the mid-1940s and early 1950s, Hughes appeared in film and television roles, including the cult classic I Accuse My Parents, Anthony Mann's early noir masterpiece The Great Flamarion, where she co-starred with Erich von Stroheim and Dan Duryea, Wanted: Dead or Alive (episode "Secret Ballot"), The Devil's Henchman, The Abbott and Costello Show, Dragnet and Studio One.

 

- " A natural redhead, Hughes usually appeared onscreen as a platinum blonde." https://ocdviewer.com/tag/barbara-slater/ 

- "After 3 years of using her natural red hair on screen, she colors it blonde, the look preferred by the public and film producers alike."  http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/…/M…/index.html

1225) Carmen Gaudin

Carmen Gaudin. French prostitute who modeled for Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), including some of his most famous paintings. Lautrec met Gaudin in 1884 when he spied her and her brilliant red hair while dining in Montmartre with Henri Rachou, his friend and fellow student at Cormon’s atelier. Until the late 1880s Carmen was to sit for Lautrec for at least 13 paintings, as well as some drawings.

Red-haired Woman in a White Blouse

Carmen Gaudin

Photo taken by Maurice Guilbert

Carmen Gaudin

                     La blanchisseuse

Lowered Head

Red-Headed Woman

Portrait of Carmen Gaudin

Femme rousse assise dans le jardin de M. Forest

La rousse avec chemisier blanc

Femme rousse dans le jardin de M. Forest

La toilette

Rosa la Rouge

1224) Francis Brooks Chadwick

Francis Brooks Chadwick (1850–1942/43). American painter active in France.
He was born in Boston and studied at Harvard, and to pursue his interest in art he attended the Académie Julian in Paris. He was friends with the painter John Singer Sargent and travelled with him to Haarlem in 1880. The following year he married the Swedish painter Emma Löwstädt-Chadwick and they settled in Grez-sur-Loing, where he remained the rest of his life, though the couple travelled to other summer art colonies on vacation.

Portrait by his wife

 Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1880

1223) Josephine Hutchinson

Josephine Hutchinson (1903 – 1998). American actress.
At Universal, she played Elsa von Frankenstein in one of her more memorable roles alongside actor Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein (1939). She later played Mrs. Townsend in North by Northwest (1959) and Mrs. Macaboy in Love Is Better Than Ever, starring Elizabeth Taylor.
She also worked in Broadway and on television.
Her mother, Leona Roberts, was an actress best known for her role as Mrs. Meade in Gone with the Wind.

- "Petite, with golden-red hair framing her heart-shaped face..."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/josephine-hutchinson-94-movie-act…

- "Popular red haired actress of the 1930s and 1940s who also appeared as a guest star on numerous television programs."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0404360/bio

- "Though she had striking red hair, she did not possess a commanding appearnce."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Son of Frankenstein saw red-haired, ehereal Josephine Hutchinson as Elsa von Frankenstein."  https://books.google.it/books…