Zolya Talma

Zolya Valentina Talma (February 14, 1895 – November 26, 1983), born Emma Valentina Cranz, sometimes credited as Zola Talma, was an American actress who began her career in silent films, performed in dozens of Broadway productions, and was a character actress on television programs from 1949 to 1974.

Biography Talma was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of William S. Cranz and Dolores (Lola) Cranz, though she sometimes claimed she was from Barcelona. Her father was involved in silver mining, and died in 1912. As a girl she was a student at the Egan School of Music and Drama. Talma lived in New York City with an uncle in 1915, Playwright Augustus Thomas suggested her stage name.

Talma had a career in films, on stage in comedies and dramas, and on television, from the 1910s into the 1970s. She died in 1983, at the age of 88, in Los Angeles.

Films Outcast (1917, silent film) On with the Dance (1920 silent film) The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Broadway Her Honor, the Mayor (1918) Mis' Nelly of N'Orleans (1919) The Checkerboard (1920) The Morning After (1925) The Love Song (1925) Stronger than Love (1925) Lally (1927) Zeppelin (1929) Evensong (1933) The World We Make (1939) Romantic Mr. Dickens (1940) For Keeps (1944) Sadie Thompson (1944) Bravo! (1948) Diamond Lil (1951)

Other stage work

Spanish Love (1921, Washington, D.C.} Ink (1927, Werba's Brooklyn Theater) Revelry (1927, Garrick Theatre, Philadelphia) Gutter Cousins (1929, Greenwich Theatre) Blaze of Glory (1934, Court Square Theater, Massachusetts) The Late Christopher Bean (1947, the Cape Playhouse) The Skin of Our Teeth (1948, Berkshire Playhouse, Massachusetts) Gigi (1954, Town and Country Playhouse, Indianapolis) Thieves' Paradise (1956, Shubert, Washington, D.C.) The Matchmaker (1957, Alley Theater, Houston)

Television The Clock (1949, one episode) The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1949, one episode) Lights Out (1949, one episode, Pengallen's Bell) The Ford Theatre Hour (1949, one episode) The Web (1951, one episode) Hallmark Hall of Fame (1952, one episode) Guiding Light (1952, soap opera) Omnibus: Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2 (1953, one episode) Crown of Audubon (1953, TV movie) Proudly I Love (1953, TV movie) Rocky King Detective (1954, one episode) Martin Kane, Private Eye (1953, 1954, 2 episodes) Robert Montgomery Presents (1952, 1955, two episodes) Kraft Television Theatre (1955, one episode) Studio One (1953, 1956, two episodes) The Asphalt Jungle (1961, one episode) Cain's Hundred (1962, one episode) The Eleventh Hour (1963, one episode) Breaking Point (1963, one episode) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1963, 1965, two episodes) The Big Valley (1965, one episode) Jericho (1966, one episode) The Felony Squad (1968, one episode) Adam-12 (1968, one episode) Ironside (1969, one episode) The Other Man (1970, TV movie) Houston, We've Got a Problem (1974, TV movie)