One of the most popular and enduring of the Lubin stars, Ormi Hawley made over three hundred films between 1911 and 1915. Only a handful of these survive. Known worldwide as "Opulent Ormi," Miss Hawley had been a stage actress before catching Lubin's eye during a Broadway performance in 1911. As a film actress, she was known for her soft, sensitive, feminine manner, but she had no qualms about tackling anything the script called for. Rafting through a river of fire, draping herself in seventeen foot long pythons, and fencing with real swords were all in a day's work. In real life she relaxed by playing Chopin in a blue room filled with bowls of violets at twilight. She was also a skilled auto mechanic.