Thelma Salter

Biography

Born under the Southern California sun on 15 January 1908, Thelma Salter stepped before the cameras while still losing baby teeth, stealing scenes in *The Wasted Years* (1916), wrangling mischief in *The Crab* (1917), and rafting down the Mississippi in 1920’s *Huckleberry Finn*. Between takes she traded lines for wedding vows with Edward Kaufman. The lights dimmed for the last time on 17 November 1953, when she passed away in Hollywood, the same dream-spun neighborhood that had watched her grow up.