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."
At her peak she had a full head of brown hair and blue eyes. During her career she enjoyed traveling and found a hobby in music.
Blonde silent screen actress who played sirens and flapper types.
Her beautiful face and figure made her popular as a fashion model.
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.
Opera singer
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.
The year of her birth was sometimes erroneously given as 1902.
Was reputed to have 5,000 gowns, almost all of them blue.