Nina Speight

born: 18 January 1890 North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia

died: 16 March 1965 Riverside County, California, United States of America (age 75)

Australian-born actress who worked exclusively in the films featuring Harold Lloyd. Her parents were Henry and Isabella (Nathan) Prager.  She married lecturer Rhodes Speight (born Reginald R. Speight, 12 October 1884) in 1910; he was later known as "Marshall Rhodes".  She later remarried to Louis Wagner (born circa 1901, Ohio) sometime before 1929.  In later years she shaved a decade off of her age (which is better than what most women tend to shave nowadays!) She was billed as Nina Rhodes for a few films.

Real name: Simelia Prager Height: 5'2"

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1917 Lonesome Luke, Messenger School girl 1917 Over The Fence [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke Loses Patients [?] 1917 Bliss [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke In From London To Laramie [?] 1917 Rainbow Island [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke In Love, Laughs And Lather [?] 1917 The Flirt Woman in park 1917 Lonesome Luke In When Clubs Are Trump [?] 1917 All Aboard [?] 1917 Lonesome Luke In We Never Sleep [?] 1917 Bashful [?] 1917 Step Lively [?] 1918 The Tip [?] 1918 Look Pleasant, Please [?] 1918 Here Come The Girls [?] 1918 Pipe The Whiskers [?] 1918 It's A Wild Life [?] 1918 Hey There! Maid 1918 Fireman, Save My Child [?] 1918 Somewhere In Turkey [?] 1918 Bride And Gloom [?] 1918 Two Scrambled [?] 1919 Call For Mr. Caveman First cavewoman 1920 His Royal Slyness [?] 1920 Haunted Spooks [?] 1920 Get Out And Get Under [?] 1921 A Straight Cook [?] 1921 Stop Kidding [?] Acknowledgements: 1917 Los Angeles City Dir: Speight Nina Mrs h 529 W 3d> 1918 Los Angeles City Dir: Speight Nina photoplayer h333 S Grand av 1921-22 Santa Monica CD: Rhodes Nina r114 Ashland av O P 1921-22 Santa Monica CD: Rhodes Marshall apts 114 Ashland av O P 1942 Los Angeles City Dir: Wagner Louis (Nina) bldg contr h5135 Marathon https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR9-FQLM (1916 passenger list, line 2) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KDRP-GSJ (1916 passenger index) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQV-RX1 (1920 Census, line 81) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CX-GNM (1940 Census, line 19) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VP4K-17J (CA Death Index) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KX4J-C2H (Isabella Nathan Prager and sister Ruth in 1919 pass list; Nina listed in column 19 as "Mrs. Marshall Rohdes [sic]") https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZQM-6VT (Isabella in 1929 pass list; column 19 confirms Nina's marriage to Louis Wagner) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV9Z-XC5R (Isabella in 1929 pass list) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXHS-RPC (Isabella in 1932 pass list) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZJW-L2R (Rhodes Speight's WWI Draft Reg. Card) https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:27FQ-H14 (Rhodes in 1922 passenger list; claims Nina is his sister) https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew15moti_1#page/1215/mode/1up/search/speight (Motion Picture News, 24 Feb 1917) https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew153unse#page/n450/mode/1up/search/nina (Motion Picture News, 21 Apr 1917) https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor32newy#page/952/mode/1up (Moving Picture World, 12 May 1917) https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor32newy#page/1439/mode/1up (Motion Picture World, 2 Jun 1917) https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/theatre-the-2042014.pdf http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WC19111116.2.25.4 http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/42906682 http://australiancinema.info/producers/austlife.html https://forgottenaustralianactresses.com/2020/05/24/nina-speight-of-hollywood-catarrh-and-colds/ (article; identification in The Flirt and Hey There) Jesse Brisson (research, plus identification in Lonesome Luke In When Clubs Are Trump, Call For Mr. Caveman, Lonesome Luke Messenger) This page was last updated on: 06 August 2024