Julia Hoyt

Julia Hoyt (September 15, 1897 – October 31, 1955) was an American actress on stage and in silent films.

Julia Wainwright Robbins was born in 1897, the daughter of Julian W. Robbins and Sarah G. Jewett Robbins. Her grandfather Hugh J. Jewett was president of the Erie Railroad and a congressman from Ohio.

Julia Robbins performed on stage as a debutante, in charity entertainments. Films she appeared in included The Wonderful Thing (1921) with Norma Talmadge, The Man Who Found Himself (1925), and Camille (1926). During World War I, she lent her image and name to an American Red Cross campaign for the employment of disabled veterans.

On Broadway, she was in a revival of The Squaw Man (1921) by Edwin Milton Royle,Rose Briar (1922–23) by Booth Tarkington, The Virgin of Bethulia (1925) by Gladys Buchanan Unger, The School for Scandal (1925), The Pearl of Great Price (1926), The Dark (1927), Mrs. Dane's Defense (1928), Within the Law (1928) by Bayard Veiller, Sherlock Holmes (1928), Serena Blandish (1929), The Rhapsody (1930) by Louis K. Anspacher, The Wiser they Are (1931), and Hay Fever (1931–32) by Noel Coward, with Constance Collier.

Her fashion business, "Julia Hoyt Modes", designed dresses and coats sold in department stores across the United States. She wrote syndicated articles about etiquette and fashion. In 1924, she wrote a series of reports from a European trip for the Bridgeport Post.

Julia Hoyt was considered a great beauty, and sat for portraits by Paul Helleu, Neysa McMein (for the cover of McCall's in May 1923), John Singer Sargent and Carl Van Vechten.

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