Blanche Mehaffey

Biography

Blanche Mehaffey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1907. She began as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before coming to Hollywood. She starred in many comedies, westerns and drama films starting in 1923, initially for the Hal Roach Film Company often playing opposite Charley Chase and later Glenn Tryon, though 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.