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Elsie Hitz was an American actress.

Early years
As a child Hitz wanted to be an actress. She was inspired in part by Maude Adams's performance in Peter Pan when it played in Hitz's hometown, Cleveland, Ohio. When Hitz was 14 years old she debuted on stage as the ingenue for a stock theater company in Cleveland.

Stage
A year after Hitz's stage debut, she became an ingenue on Broadway. Her work there included portraying Fern Randolph in Miss Daisy (1914) and Wilma Fawcett in Restless Women (1927).

In 1914 she was the ingenue with the Park-Shenandoah Players in St. Louis.

Radio
Hitz first performed on radio in a production of Show Boat, after which she was a member of the cast of True Story Hour for three years.

Hitz's roles on radio included those shown in the following table.

Other programs on which Hitz was heard included The Magic Voice.