Tien Hogue

{{short description|Australian actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=May 2014}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Tien Hogue

| image = File:Tien Hogue LoneHand January1918.jpg

| caption = Portrait of Tien Hogue, published in Lone Hand magazine in January 1918.

| birth_name = Anne Christina Hogue

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1892|6|29}}

| birth_place = Glebe Point, Sydney, New South Wales

| death_date = {{death date and age|1964|11|01|1892|6|29|df=y}}

| death_place = Tasmania

| othername =

| occupation = Film and stage actress

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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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116968290 |title=Miss Tien Hogue. |newspaper=The Mirror |location=Sydney |date=24 November 1917 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=12 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

Family

The fourth daughter, and youngest child of James Alexander Hogue (1846–1920),[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239700065 Deaths: Hogue, The Daily Telegraph, (Tuesday, 3 August 1920), p.4.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239700058 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,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13425368 Marriages: Hogue—Robards, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Tuesday, 23 April 1878), p.1.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16921019 Deaths: Hogue, The Sydney Morning Herald, (Saturday, 23 July 1932), p.12.][http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16921254 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.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112942523 Births: Hogue, The (Sydney) Evening Times, (Thursday, 30 June 1982), p.4.][https://www.glebesociety.org.au/street/james-alexander-and-jessie-hogue 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,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120431981 |title="Trooper Blue Gum" Dead. |newspaper=Queensland Times |location=Ipswich, Queensland |date=12 March 1919 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=6 Edition: DAILY |publisher=National Library of Australia}}[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hogue-oliver-6700/text11561 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.[https://archive.org/details/variety212-1958-10/page/n314/mode/1up 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,[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218597041 Personal, The Forbes Advocate, (Friday, 6 January 1922), p.4.] and moved to England.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article108468357 |title=Personal. |newspaper=The Leader |location=Orange, NSW |date=4 January 1922 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The couple later settled in Tasmania.[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52918900 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.[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-656467409/view?sectionId=nla.obj-660567525&partId=nla.obj-656477974#page/n19/mode/1up 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){{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116968232 |title=Posy Quinney. |newspaper=The Mirror |location=Sydney |date=24 November 1917 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

=Selected film credits=

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",[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1064210 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.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article20155883 |title=Labour Member Charged. |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |date=15 February 1917 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1082876 |title=The Dicker Case. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=3 August 1917 |accessdate=25 August 2013 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

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.[https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1926/ Archibald Prize: 1926.]

Footnotes

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References

  • [http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article121081058 Miss Tien Hogue, (Melbourne) Punch, (Thursday, 12 July 1917), p.27.]