Blonde silent screen actress who played sirens and flapper
types.
Met film executive Jules Brulatour (married at the time) in the early 1920s and
became his Marion Davies-like mistress for several years while he built up
her film career. Unlike Davies, Hampton married Brulatour in 1923 and
made it legit.
Retiring to become one of New York's top socialites, she and her
Brulatour lived in one of the last single-family homes on
apartment-filled Park Avenue. She would be later be dubbed "The Duchess
of Park Avenue" by columnist Earl Wilson.
After retiring from motion pictures at the dawn of sound, she turned to
opera and made her debut with the Philadelphia Opera Company in
"Manon," then toured with the Met in "La Boheme," "Faust" and "Romeo
and Juliet."