Biography
American actress Grace Hayle spent most of her screen time playing bejeweled dowagers, huffy department store customers and aggressive lady journalists. Hayle proved a worthy
Margaret Dumont type in Wheeler and Woolsey's
Diplomaniacs (1933), supplied laughs as a ruddy-faced cyclist in
The Women (1939) and played a most unlikely rhumba dancer in
Two-Faced Woman (1940). One of her few credited roles was the long-suffering Madame Napaloni in Chaplin's
The Great Dictator (1940). Grace Hayle remained in Hollywood long enough to appear in an early
Elvis Presley film. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide