Hetta Bartlett (1 May 1877 – May 1947) was an English stage and film actress whose career spanned both the West End and Broadway. She is known for Sonia (1921), The Lady of the Lake (1928) and Honour in Pawn (1916).
Early life She was born in Tottenham in London as Henrietta Elizabeth Bartlett, the daughter of Sarah Henrietta née Field (1851–1918) and Onesimus Smart Bartlett (1848–1921),1881 England Census for Henrietta E. Bartlett: Middlesex, Tottenham - Ancestry.com a solicitor of Bartlett & Roberts who was Town Clerk and Clerk to the Urban Sanitary Authority in Dartmouth in Devon; by 1891 he was Clerk to the Magistrates' Court in Paignton.1891 England Census for Henrietta E Bartlett: Devon, Paignton - Ancestry.com In 1903 he would be jailed for embezzlement.The Building of the Dartmouth Embankment - By The Dart: Anything and Everything About DartmouthHackney Express And Shoreditch Observer - Newspaper Archives: May 23, 1903 Page 4
Acting career
By 1899, at the age of 22, Hetta Bartlett was acting in the Company of Charles Hawtrey including his tour of America in the 1900s.Hetta Bartlett - The Sketch - 20 September 1899 pg 374 In 1900 she played the lead female role in the UK tour of Lord and Lady Algy.Miss Hetta Bartlett - The Sketch 8 August 1900 pg. 101 Her stage appearances with Charles Hawtrey include: Miss Bramshott in Miss Bramshott's Engagement at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1902);J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1900-1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books pg. 97 Mrs Ditchwater in The Man from Blankley's at the Prince of Wales Theatre (1903);Wearing, pgs. 53-54 in the revival of A Message from Mars at the Criterion Theatre on Broadway (1903)Cast of |A Message from Mars = Broadway World website and again at the Princes Theatre (1904) and at the Avenue Theatre;Wearing, pg 247 (1905). Other roles include: What the Butler Saw at the Garrick Theatre on Broadway in New York (1906);Hetta Bartlett - Internet Broadway DatabaseHetta Bartlett on Playbill Mrs Patterson in A Pot of Caviare at the Adelphi Theatre (1910);J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1910-1919: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books as Miss Ricketts in Jerome K. Jerome's The Master of Mrs Chilvers at the Royalty Theatre (1911);Jerome K. Jerome, The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy, Read Books Ltd (2013) - Google Books Countess of Skene and Skye in Jelf's at Wyndham's Theatre (1912), and Broomhall in Billy's Fortune at the Criterion Theatre (1913). Bartlett's later stage roles include: Marchioness of Queenstown in In Nelson's Days at the Shaftesbury Theatre (1922).J. P. Wearing, The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield (2014) - Google Books pg 153
Personal life
In 1899, she married the dramatic author Metcalfe Henry Wood (1864–1944)1901 England Census for Henrietta E Wood: Sussex, Hove - Ancestry.com at Totnes in Devon. The marriage was dissolved by 1911 when Bartlett was living alone at 14a Albert Embankment in London.1911 England Census for Henrietta Elizabeth Bartlett: London, Lambeth, Kennington - Ancestry.com In 1939 she was living in Marylebone in London and described herself as an actress and 'Widowed' on the official register.1939 England and Wales Register for Hetta Bartlett - London, St Marylebone Met B - Ancestry.com
Hetta Bartlett died aged 70 in May 1947 in Dartford in Kent.
Filmography Uncredited - Honour in Pawn (1916) Lady Cecelia - A Woman of No Importance (1921) Lady Dainton - Sonia (1921) Mrs Cathcart - Melody of Death (1922)Rachael Low, History of British Film (Volume 4): The History of the British Film 1918 - 1929, Routledge (2011) - Google Books pg. 410 Lady Hepburn - Repentance (1922) Court Lady - The Glorious Adventure (1922) Margaret - The Lady of the Lake (1928)Hetta Bartlett - British Film Institute database
References
External links Hetta Bartlett on Internet Movie Database