Highest rated movie: Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
Lowest rated movie: Don't Knock the Twist (1962)
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Movies starring Nydia Westman have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 59%.
Silent Night, Lonely Night - released in 1969 - is Nydia Westman's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Nydia Westman is Don't Knock the Twist - released in 1962 - with a score of 39% based on 1 reviews.
Nydia Eileen Westman (February 19, 1902 – May 23, 1970) was an American actress and singer of stage, screen and television.
Westman's parents, Theodore and Lily (Wren) Westman were active in vaudeville in her native New York City. In addition to their working together on stage, her mother was a writer and her father was a composer. She attended the Professional Children's School.
Her sisters, Lolita and Neville were actresses, and her brother, Theodore (d. November 20, 1927), was an actor and playwright.
Westman's career ranged from episodic appearances on TV series such as That Girl and Dragnet and uncredited bit roles in movies to appearances in groundbreaking films (such as Craig's Wife, which starred Rosalind Russell, and the first film version of Little Women.
Westman's screen debut came in Strange Justice (1922). She appeared in 31 films in the 1930s.
She appeared as the housekeeper Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962–1963 ABC series, Going My Way, which starred Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll as Roman Catholic priests in New York City.
Westman's first Broadway play was Pigs (1924); her last was Midgie Purvis (1961).
She broke ground on stage, debuting the role of Nell off-Broadway in Samuel Beckett's Endgame, for which she won one of the first Obie awards.
Westman was married to Robert Sparks, a producer, from 1930 until 1937; they had a daughter, actress Kate Williamson, born on September 19, 1931.
Westman died of cancer at the age of sixty-eight in Burbank, California.
Nydia Westman has acted in films with Bess Flowers, Charles Lane, Don Knotts and Joan Crawford.
Nydia Westman has worked with these film directors: George Cukor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, George Marshall and George Sidney.
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