Pauline Hahn
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Pauline Hahn | |
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| Born | October 10, 1941 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1950–59 |
Pauline Hahn (born October 10, 1941) is an American stage and screen actress, professor, and writer. Hahn starred as Dixie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. Her notable films included Too Young to Love (1959).[1]
Theatrical career
Pauline Hahn received her Actors Equity Card as a child in 1947. Following years on the Catskills summer circuit and radio, Hahn made her professional acting debut portraying one of the children in As the Girls Go for the 1948-50 run at the Winter Garden Theater[2]. She went on to play First Little Girl in the Fulton Theater production of Twilight Walk[3] (with Walter Mathau). She also appeared in Me and Molly (1948) with Gertrude Berg, Cloud 7 (1958). Hahn's Predominant role was that of Dixie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Morosco Theater in 1955.
Hahn played the title role in the Kermit Bloom Garden Broadway T&B Semi-national tour production of Diary of a Young Girl (1958).dPauline has had over 500 television appearances including The Ed Sullivan Show and several hundred radio show credits including as a regular appearance on the Horn and Harter Children's Hour, Search for Tomorrow and others.
Hahn also appeared in four Yiddish language productions including Dos Leib iz a Cholem (Life is a Dream) 1945, Vell'n Zei Gedenken? (Will They Remember?) as well as with the National Yiddish Folksbiene Theater (1979).
Selected filmography
- Too Young to Love (film) (1959) as Elizabeth Collins
- Abe Burrows' Almanac (1950) as Herself
References
- ^ Goble, Alan (2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. p. 423. ISBN 9783110951943. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals". Rowman & Littlefield. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "Twilight Walk". Internet Broadway Database. Retrieved 2019-01-06.