Blanche Mehaffey

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Blanche Mehaffey born in Cincinnati in 1907 began as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before coming to Hollywood, star of many comedies, westerns and drama films from 1923, first starring in many short comedies for the Hal Roach Film Company often playing opposite Charley Chase and later Glenn Tryon, occasionally appeared in drama and cowboy features, in 1929 she dropped out of filming to study voice and languages for more than a year in New York City, returned to films in 'Sunrise Trail' a western starring Bob Steele in 1931, she was last seen on screen in 1938's 'The Wages of Sin' made at the Willis Kent studios.