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Violet Hopson (1887-1973) was an Australian-born British actress born in Port Augusta, South Australia, Australia on 16 December 1887〔Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922〕 as Elma Kate Victoria Karkeek, Violet Hopson being her stage name. .〔http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13036〕 She was a major star of the silent era. She was popularly known by audiences as the "Dear Delightful Villianess".〔Sweet p.31〕 Her career suffered slightly following the end of her marriage to actor Alexander Worster,〔Sweet p.34〕 screen name Alec Worcester, whom she married in Luton on 7 June 1909 aged 21. Her marriage certificate gives her name as Elma Kate Victoria Hopson.〔England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 〕 They divorced in February 1919 on the ground's of his adultery and desertion.〔http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/actors-actresses/104472-violet-hopson.html〕 They had two children Nicholas born 1910 and Jessica born 1913〔England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915〕 She died 21 July 1973 in Princess Louise Hospital, Kensington, London,〔England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2005〕 the records naming her as Elma Kate Worster. She was cremated in Kensal Green Crematorium on 26 July 1973. ==Career== Violet's earliest performances were with the Pollard Opera Company in Australia and New Zealand from 1898 - 1900 when she went to America with her older sister Zoe Karkeek. Zoe and Wilmot Karkeek were long standing members of this company from 1892. Violet was known as Kate or Kitty to her family at this stage in her life.〔http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW19000308.2.119.1&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0--〕 Motion Picture Studio, 3 December 1921, p. 10. Extensive biography citing Californian birth (contradicted by genealogical research), a breakdown which caused her to leave the stage and turn to films. Motion Picture Studio, 10 December 1921, p. 7. ‘Violet Hopson now announces that she has completed the biggest deal yet attempted by a woman in British film land (the rights of her films for the next two years to Butchers ) () Despite her dramatic ability, Miss Hopson also possesses a keen business sense, a combination rarely found in a man, more rarely in a woman’. Motion Picture Studio, 31 December 1921, p. 11. Violet Hopson’s New Year’s Resolution is ‘to show the British public that a woman’s influence, if exercised in the right direction, can be a tremendous benefit to British films’. Watch〔http://ssa.nls.uk/film.cfm?fid=0833〕 Miss Violet Hopson Visits Dundee Fire Station (1920) via the Scottish Screen Archive website. This trip was almost certainly organised by Billie Bristow (see Motion Picture Studio, 19 November 1921, p. 8-9). Violet was considered a pioneer in the film world of the 1920s as she owned a production company Violet Hopson Productions〔http://www.synoptique.ca/archives/edition4/gledhill.htm〕〔http://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/JBCTV.2007.4.1.1〕 Her career started at Hepworth Pictures along with Alma Taylor, Chrissie White, Stewart Rome, James Carew, Gerald Ames and John MacAndrews,〔http://www.clickautographs.com/detail.php?id=3108〕 although she later combined with Walter West, at Broadwest,who in his bankruptcy papers claimed to have married Violet. In 1919 she started to play with Stewart Rome in a string of dramas. The first was probably the sports drama The Gentleman Rider (1919, Walter West), which was followed by Snow in the Desert, A Great Coup, A Daughter of Eve, The Romance of a Movie Star, The Case of Lady Camber, Her Son, The Imperfect Lover, and When Greek Meets Greek. These films were almost all directed by Walter West for the company Broadwest and later for Walter West Productions, and almost all co-starring Stewart.〔http://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/search/label/Stewart%20Rome〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Violet Hopson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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