Nydia Westman: Nydia Westman. Actress: The Cat and the Canary. This adorable character actress tended to play older than she really was on stage, screen and TV. Petite and quite pretty in her youth, Nydia Westman was born in 1902 to vaudevillian parents, actor-composer Theodore Westman and actress-playwright Lily Wren, and was thrust into the limelight at an early age as part of the family act ("Troubles of Joy"). Her younger brother,...
Known For: The Cat and the Canary (Cicily), Bulldog Drummond's Peril (Gwen Longworth), The Late George Apley (Jane Willing), Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (Gwen Longworth)