Tien Hogue was the stage name of Anne Christina Hogue (29 June 1892 – November 1964), an Australian actress of stage and screen in the silent era.
She was a popular personality, who, though marriage, became Lady Wyatt.
Family The fourth daughter, and youngest child of James Alexander Hogue (1846–1920),Deaths: Hogue, The Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 3 August 1920), p.4.Death of Mr. J.A. Hogue: Useful Career Closes, The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 3 August 1920), p.5. and Jessie Hogue (1853–1932), née Robards,Marriages: Hogue—Robards, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 23 April 1878), p.1.Deaths: Hogue, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 23 July 1932), p.12.Mrs. Jessie Hogue, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 23 July 1932), p.17. Anne Christina Hogue was born at Glebe Point, Sydney, New South Wales on 29 June 1892.Births: Hogue, The (Sydney) Evening Times, (Thursday, 30 June 1982), p.4.James Alexander and Jessie Howe, The Glebe Society, 2017.
She was the sister of Major Oliver Hogue (1880–1919), who wrote under the name of Trooper Blue Gum,Elyne Mitchell, "Hogue, Oliver (1880–1919)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 25 August 2013. and of John Roland Hogue (1882–1958), the talented professional singer (baritone), Broadway, film, and U.S.television actor, and playwright.John Roland Hogue, Variety, Vol.212, No.8, (Wednesday, 22 October 1958), p.79.
She married Guy Wyatt (1893–1981) of the British Navy, later Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Guy Norris Wyatt, K.B., C.B. on 19 January 1922,Personal, The Forbes Advocate, (Friday, 6 January 1922), p.4. and moved to England. The couple later settled in Tasmania.Of Interest to Women, The (Launceston) Examiner, (Wednesday, 22 October 1952), p.8.
Stage and screen "Tien Hogue, a good-looking Sydney girl, with a honey-sweet speaking voice, [who is soon to tour country towns as "Aggie Lynch" in Veiller’s play, Within the Law] gave such an intelligent reading of the part of Victoria Chope in [the new Haddon Chambers play] "Sir Anthony", at the Repertory Theatre, that she is likely to prove a bright addition to the native-born stage contingent." – The Bulletin, 30 July 1914.A Woman's Letter, Sydney, July 27, 1914, The Bulletin, Vol.35, No.1798, (Thursday, 30 July 1914), p.18.
Selected theatre credits Within the Law (1914) Quinneys (1917)
Selected film credits The Life of a Jackeroo (1913) Pommy Arrives in Australia (1913) A Blue Gum Romance (1913) The Shepherd of the Southern Cross (1915) Robbery Under Arms (1920)
The Dicker Case She was a witness in the Dicker case where the Tasmanian Labor MP David Edward Dicker (1882–1967) was charged with "disloyal utterances",Disloyal Utterances: Charge Against Mr. Dicker, M.H.A.: Evidence at Police Court: Evidence of Theatrical Witnesses, The Mercury, (Thursday, 15 February 1917), p.7. in his making of statements likely to prejudice recruiting.
Death She died in Tasmania in November 1964.
Archibald Prize Tien Hogue was the subject of an Archibald Prize finalist painting by Joseph Wolinski (1872–1955) in 1926.Archibald Prize: 1926.
Footnotes
References Miss Tien Hogue, (Melbourne) Punch, (Thursday, 12 July 1917), p.27.
External links
Tien Hogue theatre credits at AusStage