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- Gertrude W. Hoffman
- German-born Gertrude Hoffman began her film career in Germany in 1918, but she didn't start her Hollywood career until she was past 60 years of age, making her American film debut in 1933. She worked steadily and made quite a few films over the next 20 years, though many of her parts were unbilled. She is probably best remembered as Mrs. Odets, the sassy next-door neighbor to Gale Storm in My Little Margie (1952), who was always up for a "caper" in one of Margie's many crazy schemes. She died in Hollywood of a heart attack in 1968.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpouseRalph Hoffmann(? - July 21, 1932) (his death, 3 children)
- The "At The Theater Last Night" column in the "Pittsburgh Press" of 3/11/1919 gives a glowing review of her vaudeville performance at the Davis Theater the prior evening. Alone on the stage, she performed "The Dance of the Allies" and did impressions of Eddie Foy, Fanny Brice and other stars of the day.
- Went to Hollywood at age 60 (after raising two daughters and a son) to begin a film career.
- Ex-mother-in-law of Thelma White and Helen Kane.
- She gained brief notoriety during a series of shark attacks off the New Jersey coast in 1916 when the "New York Times" reported on her encounter with a shark on Coney Island Beach. At the time, Hoffman boasted that she had the presence of mind to hit the water and drive the shark away.
- Mother-in-law of Luana Walters.
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