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Hope Emerson

Hope Emerson
Emerson in the trailer for Caged (1950)
Born	(1897-10-29)October 29, 1897 Hawarden, Iowa, U.S.
Died	April 25, 1960(1960-04-25) (aged 62) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1910s – 1960

Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 – April 25, 1960) was an Americanactress. She acted in television and movies and on the stage. She played Evelyn Harper in Caged (1950). She also played a mail order bride in Westward the Women (1952).^[1]

Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. She died from liver disease at age 62.

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Hope Emerson

American actress (1897–1960)

Hope Emerson
Studio publicity photo, 1950s
Born	(1897-10-29)October 29, 1897 Hawarden, Iowa, U.S.
Died	April 24, 1960(1960-04-24) (aged 62) Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Actress, vaudeville performer, strongwoman, nightclub performer
Years active	1900–1960

Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 – April 24, 1960) was an American actress, vaudevillian, nightclub performer, and strongwoman. Emerson started acting when she was three years old during a production with her mother. Her career started when she advertised sheet music by playing the piano at a 10-cent store. Emerson made her Broadway debut in Lysistrata in 1930. She starred in other plays, films, television shows, and commercials. She often played the role of a villain in comedies and dramas. Emerson's performance in Caged "became the standard model for women's prison films." Her roles included being a circus strongwoman, a nefarious masseuse-conspirator, a mail-order bride, and a prison warden.

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Hope Emerson from Hawarden to Hollywood

Let me do the math. Were she born a century later, she might have just now concluded a stellar basketball career at USD. Why cut her short?--think of her as a Hawkeye. Wherever she played, she scored because even now, a century later, Hope Emerson would still tower over much of the opposition.

Hope Emerson was born 1897, when the game of basketball was a five-year-old. It would take another decade to put young women in uniform, even here in Iowa, where girls basketball went big-time decades before it did elsewhere.

Hope Emerson stood 6'2" inches tall, and she was no drink of water. It's not nice to talk about weight, but Ms. Emerson was never shy about it herself. That's why it's so amazing to think of her as a movie star. She was. She died in 1960, but any movie buff worth his or her tickets will remember Hope Emerson's face, even if she hasn't appeared on the big screen for fifty years. I'm trying not to be boerish, but it's fair to say Hope Emerson's face was as formidable as her frame.

This Hope Emerson, after all,