1. Justina Huff was an American actress of the silent film era.
16 Facts About Justina Huff
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Justina Huff was the oldest daughter of Thomas D Huff and Lucinda Huff.
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Justina Huff had three older brothers; Thomas Salisbury, Mercer and Robert, one younger sister Louise Huff and one younger brother, T D Jr.
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Justina Huff's grandfather was William Salisbury, the owner of the local newspaper The Enquirer-Sun.
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Justina Huff was murdered in 1878 by a local man who was called out as a troublemaker in an editorial penned by Justina's father, the city editor of that paper at the time.
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The family moved to New York City around 1906 after the company Thomas Huff worked for was sold.
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In 1908, Justina Huff won a scholarship to attend Horace Mann Institute in Manhattan.
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Justina Huff decided to try her hand in the fledgling silent movie industry.
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Justina Huff was then selected by famed actress Minnie Maddern Fiske for the part of Liza Lou in Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Famous Players Co.
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Justina Huff then signed with Siegmund Lubin at Lubin Studios in Philadelphia, PA where she finished out 1913 making A Son of His Father, Through Flaming Paths and Between Dances.
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Justina Huff made several movies with her brother-in-law, both acting with and being directed by him.
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Justina Huff made her last film, The Man Inside, for Universal in 1916.
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Justina Huff settled into the role of wife and mother for her family in the suburbs of Philadelphia and occasionally visiting family in Georgia and New York.
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John's medical career provided a high standard of living for them and Justina Huff developed a love of travel, especially to Europe.
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Justina Huff traveled with husband and children several times between World Wars.
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Justina Huff was living in Majorca when her sister Louise died in 1973 but eventually returned to Philadelphia, where she died in 1977.