Blanche Mehaffey

Blanche Mehaffey
Mehaffey about 1922
Born	Blanche Mehaffey July 28, 1903
Died	March 31, 1968 (aged 64)
Occupations	Actress showgirl
Years active	1922–1938
Spouses	George Joseph Hausen, 1928-1928 (Div) Ralph Martin Like, 1932-1939 (Div)

Blanche Mehaffey (July 28, 1903^{[citation needed]} – March 31, 1968) was an American showgirl and film actress.

Blanche was said to be a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.^[1]

Blanche Mehaffey began her professional career in 1921 when she was cast as a showgirl in Florenz Ziegfeld's Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic.^[2] In 1922 she won first prize in a contest held in Cincinnati, OH, to pick the three most beautiful girls in Ohio.^[3] She was then cast in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922.^[4]

Mehaffey began her movie career in 1923 when she was cast in the George Jeske comedy, Fully Insured. She made over 60 films during a career that lasted until 1938.

• It's a Boy (1923)
• The White Sheep (1924)
• Meet the Missus (1924)
• The Goofy Age (1924)
• The Battling Orioles (1924)
• Position Wanted (1924)
• Going to Congress (1924)
• April Fool (1924)
• Friend Husband (1924)
• Powder and Smoke (1924)
• Just a Minute (1924)
• One of the Family (1924)
• The Big Idea (1924)
• At First Sight (1924)
• A Woman of the World (1925)
• His People (1925)
• Cuckoo Love (1925)
• Tell It to a Policeman (1925)
• Hold My Baby (1925)
• A Sailor Papa (1925)
• The Haunted Honeymoon (1925)
• The Wages of Tin (1925)
• Take It from Me (1926)
• The Runaway Express (1926)
• The Texas Streak (1926)
• He Forgot to Remember (1926)
• The Old War-Horse (1926)
• Finnegan's Ball (1927)
• The Tired Business Man (1927)
• The Princess from Hoboken (1927)
• The Denver Dude (1927)
• The Silent Rider (1927)
• Marlie the Killer (1928)
• The Air Mail Pilot (1928)
• Smilin' Guns (1929)
• Mounted Fury (1931)
• Soul of the Slums (1931)
• Is There Justice? (1931)
• Dancing Dynamite (1931)
• Dugan of the Badlands (1931)
• The Sky Spider (1931)
• Riders of the North (1931)
• The Mystery Trooper (1931)
• White Renegade (1931)
• The Sunrise Trail (1931)
• Hypnotized (1932)
• Alias Mary Smith (1932)
• Dynamite Denny (1932)
• Passport to Paradise (1932)
• Sally of the Subway (1932)
• Border Guns (1934)
• The Silent Code (1935)
• Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
• The Cowboy and the Bandit (1935)
• The Outlaw Tamer (1935)
• North of Arizona (1935)
• The Sea Fiend (1936)
• Wildcat Saunders (1936)
• The Wages of Sin (1938)
• Held for Ransom (1938)^[5]

Mehaffey was among the WAMPAS "Baby Stars" of 1924 chosen by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers.^[6]

She spent 1930 away from films studying voice and languages in New York City.^[7]

One critic considers Mehaffey's films to be "eminently forgettable [B movies]",^[8] although another cites A Woman of the World as one of a hundred "essential silent film comedies."^[9]

Mehaffey wed George Joseph Hausen in Los Angeles, California in January 1928. She obtained a divorce in April of the same year.^[10] She married Ralph Like in 1932 and obtained a divorce in 1939.^[11]

Mehaffey died on March 31, 1968.^{[citation needed]}

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