Danielle Harris

Currently, she can be heard as Debbie on the animated TV series The Wild Thornberrys. She has also been featured in the movie based on the series as well as the 2003 film Rugrats Go Wild. The role was ultimately played in several Tarzan films by Maureen O'Sullivan. In the mid-1990s, she was stalked by an obsessed fan, who wrote letters threatening to kill her. Hyams was the original choice to play Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), but turned it down. She celebrated her 11th birthday on the set of Halloween 4. She was married to the agent Phil Berg from 1927 until her death in Bel Air, California. Born in Queens, New York, Harris began her acting career in her early teens. After ten years and fifty films, Hyams retired from acting in 1936, but remained part of the Hollywood community for the rest of her life.

Danielle Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an actress who has been heard in The Wild Thornberrys and seen in movies such as City Slickers and two of the Halloween series. She also appeared in the controversial Jean Harlow film Red-Headed Woman (1932), the musical comedy The Big Broadcast (1932) with Bing Crosby, George Burns and Gracie Allen, and was widely praised for her comedic performance in Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). Although she succeeded in films that required her to play pretty ingenues, and developed into a capable dramatic actress in 1930s crime melodramas, she is perhaps best remembered for two early 1930s horror movies, as the wise-cracking but kind hearted circus performer in Freaks (1932), and as the heroine in Island of Lost Souls (1933). As Robert Montgomery's sister in the Chester Morris prison drama The Big House (1930), Hyams once again received positive reviews and the quality of her parts continued to improve. The following year she appeared in the popular murder mystery The Thirteenth Chair, a role that offered her the chance to display her dramatic abilities as a murder suspect.

By 1928 she was playing starring roles, achieving success in Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928). She proved herself capable of handling the small roles she was assigned, and over a period of time she came to be taken seriously as an actress. She made her first film in 1924, and with her blonde hair, delicate features, and good natured demeanour, was cast in a string of supporting roles, where she was required to do very little but smile and look pretty. This success led her to Hollywood.

As a teenager she worked as a model and become well known across the United States after appearing in a successful series of newspaper advertisements. Born in New York, New York to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre, Hyams appeared on-stage with her parents while still a child. Leila Hyams (May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977) was an American film actress.