Gladys Hanson

Gladys Hanson was a stage and silent film actress.

Early years

Hanson was born Gladys Hanson Snook, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Harrison Snook.

Hanson began her career on the Broadway stage portraying the Duchess in The Spoiler in 1907 with the Charles Frohman Company. On the stage she played in the theatrical productions Our American Cousin with Edward Hugh Sothern, The Builder of Bridge with later film star Eugene O'Brien and The Governor's Lady with Emma Dunn and future film leading man Milton Sills.
She starred in The Straight Road, The Evangelist and The Climbers, The Primrose Path, and The Havoc.

On April 12, 1916, in Atlanta, Hanson married Charles Emerson Cook who represented her at Charles Emerson Cook Inc., but they later divorced. They had one child, Gladys-Irene Cook.
On February 23, 1973, Hanson died, aged 89.