tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80516549230519909222024-03-28T11:11:45.994-07:00Classic ActressesClassic Actresses is dedicated to the beautiful and talented women from Hollywood's Golden Age ~ Movie Legends, Silent Stars, Bathing Beauties, Ziegfeld Follies Girls, and Forgotten StarletsCaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-64048810745389894342024-03-26T11:25:00.000-07:002024-03-26T11:25:39.799-07:00Miroslava Stern & Her Heartbreaking Suicide<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82iYjzpqrvSCV6206HBQwU6x-HUNDHsWQ5A4isi6MZTvTQtqI4H7f0nvoo_tvvcWUFd99ciUf8ZTurWIvq7zVvJLIaItfS7aszzhMDjvl8ER3lMYMe6yihddizQHY1uGKLJ8bjdaW7SDjIwSCtjlDu3zLnMfAadVOEkgCxyBfiJ8qI0XonINrGn7sk0A/s700/mir3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miroslava Stern" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82iYjzpqrvSCV6206HBQwU6x-HUNDHsWQ5A4isi6MZTvTQtqI4H7f0nvoo_tvvcWUFd99ciUf8ZTurWIvq7zVvJLIaItfS7aszzhMDjvl8ER3lMYMe6yihddizQHY1uGKLJ8bjdaW7SDjIwSCtjlDu3zLnMfAadVOEkgCxyBfiJ8qI0XonINrGn7sk0A/w238-h320/mir3.png" title="Miroslava Stern" width="238" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Miroslava Stern was a beautiful actress who committed suicide after getting her heart broken<span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Miroslava Stanclová on February 26, 1926 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Sadly her father died when she was a child. During World War 2 she and her Jewish family were interred in a concentration camp for a brief time. Eventually they were released and moved to Mexico in 1941. The following year she was sent to boarding school in New York City. Miroslava fell in love with an American soldier who was tragically killed. She was so upset that she attempted suicide. After winning a beauty contest she decided to study acting. In 1945 she married actor Jesus Obregón in 1945. They divorced a year later when she discovered he was gay. Miroslava made her film debut in the 1946 Mexican film The Tragic Wedding. She appeared in more than thirty movies including Nocturne of Love, La casa chica, and Streetwalker. The beautiful blonde quickly became one the most popular actresses in Mexico.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxBwM8h0jjTr5ADLbiif9fx940um05CGHlWzuZcsRLkyAw-fE-JhlYFt9VKFpjE1F-KRkmbmmUqAGCDVwZzu8cfnDaKFyGOhtk4cD55NcpeCli51APdauGZhUhIqS_QcsfFV3PGoUORG70nqS4qpdTJmJc-DWJfhuZFH8MQ2SFNsAOCu-w-GahnN9Nnko/s700/mir2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miroslava Stern" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxBwM8h0jjTr5ADLbiif9fx940um05CGHlWzuZcsRLkyAw-fE-JhlYFt9VKFpjE1F-KRkmbmmUqAGCDVwZzu8cfnDaKFyGOhtk4cD55NcpeCli51APdauGZhUhIqS_QcsfFV3PGoUORG70nqS4qpdTJmJc-DWJfhuZFH8MQ2SFNsAOCu-w-GahnN9Nnko/w238-h320/mir2.png" title="Miroslava Stern" width="238" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57EX7nWN1nMS7yIM52E1b7fAAu3V5KPKd_vlnF6DhR9hi-6Lg6AyPQqoBgr9dWfwJ6JhbK8pSCUc7xzot9O5LHzcYLevqdGvkKG9CtZHBIqs09_Gj5plpuOgunLJdI5c7qOjQG3H5gass9z1hwfIVVTFGYkLVgdLL_y2CqQNDl8CEtI-Y4vKL1Ze5co8/s700/mir.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miroslava Stern" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg57EX7nWN1nMS7yIM52E1b7fAAu3V5KPKd_vlnF6DhR9hi-6Lg6AyPQqoBgr9dWfwJ6JhbK8pSCUc7xzot9O5LHzcYLevqdGvkKG9CtZHBIqs09_Gj5plpuOgunLJdI5c7qOjQG3H5gass9z1hwfIVVTFGYkLVgdLL_y2CqQNDl8CEtI-Y4vKL1Ze5co8/w249-h320/mir.png" title="Miroslava Stern" width="249" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then in 1948 she went to Hollywood to appear in the drama Adventures of Casanova. Miroslava also costarred with Mel Ferrer in The Brave Bulls. She dated actors Arturo de Cardova and Steve Cochran. There were also rumors she had an affair with actress Ninón Sevilla. In 1954 she fell madly in love with bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. Director Luis Buñuel cast her in his 1955 drama The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz. When she returned from filming Louis broke up with her. Miroslava was devastated when he married another woman soon after. Tragically On March 9, 1955 she committed suicide by taking poison. The twenty-nine year old was found holding a farewell letter from Louis. She was buried at
Panteón Francés de San Joaquín in Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz was released after her death and became her biggest hit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETPZPndQa5UA83ZylBzYAkutGsGHEZ3X3uFEUsdge9mSNtXn0YTeV450QIywyBre-sva4UDUNJCkkH8PSzmVG_5UherNi2bis51mbUmCGxyK4c1nuOnlHN7X48ygfy8cEJyM6aVfWo1_7F2NR6f8PvZNeBxiW9YNMeQBPGc9HtVbKvMOV5JcQgyfBBCw/s800/mirolife.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miroslava Stern Life Magazine" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="615" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhETPZPndQa5UA83ZylBzYAkutGsGHEZ3X3uFEUsdge9mSNtXn0YTeV450QIywyBre-sva4UDUNJCkkH8PSzmVG_5UherNi2bis51mbUmCGxyK4c1nuOnlHN7X48ygfy8cEJyM6aVfWo1_7F2NR6f8PvZNeBxiW9YNMeQBPGc9HtVbKvMOV5JcQgyfBBCw/w246-h320/mirolife.png" title="Miroslava Stern Life Magazine" width="246" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QmrKiR8aD1n_lJiXxRwRCug_wB5qo_rODqAhFidkUwbzSSromDyPsfEoXTsoHoKnQsaBQ7M8_Z0J6XC4C9btyx8W6lSSrmcf-ocQPDXx2_HbvoELeWTq_kS894G_1CUQJXqG8dh7B84ZnksY2CHcz-W7BpCAiF30h_4b54K84ry6-hGynQAg_tXJxvw/s645/mir4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miroslava Stern" border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QmrKiR8aD1n_lJiXxRwRCug_wB5qo_rODqAhFidkUwbzSSromDyPsfEoXTsoHoKnQsaBQ7M8_Z0J6XC4C9btyx8W6lSSrmcf-ocQPDXx2_HbvoELeWTq_kS894G_1CUQJXqG8dh7B84ZnksY2CHcz-W7BpCAiF30h_4b54K84ry6-hGynQAg_tXJxvw/w258-h320/mir4.png" title="Miroslava Stern" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-41064833673719797592024-03-24T01:40:00.000-07:002024-03-24T01:46:07.896-07:00Joi Lansing ~ The Secret Lesbian<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8J3d5iqPCZy7f0RRhN9z2vqXJ696sbnbQa_z1Q6PNiLN8JIHIEBh6kOFc7TyRIrBjb3op3aCGGgqN1-kaxuxxlGpE3q2h_n3aIEJZpQ0TJmYApFbo6IJXjmABJ_C18T69uCcImsVB_I/s700/joi2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8J3d5iqPCZy7f0RRhN9z2vqXJ696sbnbQa_z1Q6PNiLN8JIHIEBh6kOFc7TyRIrBjb3op3aCGGgqN1-kaxuxxlGpE3q2h_n3aIEJZpQ0TJmYApFbo6IJXjmABJ_C18T69uCcImsVB_I/w249-h320/joi2.jpg" title="Joi Lansing" width="249" /></a><b> </b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Joi Lansing was a popular actress and sex symbol who enjoyed a secret lesbian affair</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Joy Rae Brown on April 6, 1929 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her mother remarried. The family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1940. At the age of fourteen she started modeling. In 1947 she made her film debut in the comedy When A Girl's Beautiful. Joi had brief romances with Mickey Rooney and George Raft. On March 26, 1950 she married Jerry Safron, a sales manager at Columbia Studios. Their union was annulled just five months later. She married actor Lance Fuller in 1951 but they split up after two years together. Joi got bit parts in more than a dozen films including Neptune's Daughter, Singin In The Rain, and The French Line. Her big break came in 1955 when she was cast as a "dumb blonde" on The Bob Cummings Show. It was a hit and ran for four years. With her platinum hair and voluptuous figure she quickly became a popular pin-up girl. The press called her "The <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/marilyn-monroe.html">Marilyn Monroe</a> of Television". In 1956 she had a leading role in the crime drama Hot Shots. She also appeared in the films Queen Of Outer Space and The Atomic Submarine. Director Orson Welles gave her a small role in his 1958 drama Touch Of Evil. Although she had become a sex symbol she claimed to be a devout Mormon who didn't smoke or drink alcohol.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTs6cxlBm6d529zmWrSRsEJBUoUSJKZVc-Ngd6_NTOBpuKv4a7KV1plR97b1VfSpg2MuOxkaaKW9r45TdQozJePGZPU3kX3MhPguFlykDXS2M5gGv1fTHicWHMpZPCypcU6XL-DEayg0/s700/joi3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing In A Bikini" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqTs6cxlBm6d529zmWrSRsEJBUoUSJKZVc-Ngd6_NTOBpuKv4a7KV1plR97b1VfSpg2MuOxkaaKW9r45TdQozJePGZPU3kX3MhPguFlykDXS2M5gGv1fTHicWHMpZPCypcU6XL-DEayg0/w238-h320/joi3.jpg" title="Joi Lansing In A Bikini" width="238" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEviwEsH2FuSzpXQs4Ax7PLaUYm6MJvFUHiuU5BS-jXDGewskiFzI04f5Y1bjk4QIj7SFJybv0fwdQGcXWlVLJbZq1lzdms7A52TxYKo5AU6P0AOVu_G5Bn5Zo8aWRgPfgiQg3knGpsqI/s780/joi1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing Magazine" border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEviwEsH2FuSzpXQs4Ax7PLaUYm6MJvFUHiuU5BS-jXDGewskiFzI04f5Y1bjk4QIj7SFJybv0fwdQGcXWlVLJbZq1lzdms7A52TxYKo5AU6P0AOVu_G5Bn5Zo8aWRgPfgiQg3knGpsqI/w213-h320/joi1.jpg" title="Joi Lansing Magazine" width="213" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;">Joi had a serous romance with Frank Sinatra, her costar in A Hole In The Head. Then in 1960 she married Stanley Todd, a wealthy finance manager. Soon after she became pregnant but her husband insisted she have an abortion. During the 1960s she started performing in nightclubs and recorded an album. She also made guest appearances on TV shows like The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet. In 1965 she and Stanley separated but they remained legally married. As she got older she suffered from depression and became addicted to barbiturates. While making the horror film Bigfoot in 1969 she met twenty year old Alexis Hunter. The two women began a passionate affair. They often went out in public together with Alexis claiming to be her younger sister. Joi was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery. She also began suffering from severe anemia. There were rumors that her cancer had been caused by silicone injections she got in her breasts. Tragically on August 7, 1972 she died at the young age of forty-three. Her girlfriend Alexis was at her side when she passed away. She was buried at
Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Santa Paula, California.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uROaHtdHfwY?si=SeJ6wUy7z1PkNOvt" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm03MUJV5srAKjzKkmHygwIF66qr2zueMjbsToXX9F_UcBcGaarHndhI7Q82yVlSFbb5hk47__1HxP_yE_VugizOkqaJNgZJkwbL-b-4HMnXed_K1BZKdKaGNtIdQ25j3bliAuCJKqfls/s700/joi4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing Friday The 13th Pin-Up" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="585" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm03MUJV5srAKjzKkmHygwIF66qr2zueMjbsToXX9F_UcBcGaarHndhI7Q82yVlSFbb5hk47__1HxP_yE_VugizOkqaJNgZJkwbL-b-4HMnXed_K1BZKdKaGNtIdQ25j3bliAuCJKqfls/w267-h320/joi4.jpg" title="Joi Lansing Friday The 13th Pin-Up" width="267" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoDRgawmKWb6xau5rjzvDLJgqxr59d-uSx7awpDc_hKm82MyoPL6FeQ0pFik1Nbow_1laDWsNe9rP6_SKEypSYh-YpB1Rdr9P6KNtOL4rEegV2SzqJ4AHeROix0JGKEPXjLXSwxgAouBo/s700/joi1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoDRgawmKWb6xau5rjzvDLJgqxr59d-uSx7awpDc_hKm82MyoPL6FeQ0pFik1Nbow_1laDWsNe9rP6_SKEypSYh-YpB1Rdr9P6KNtOL4rEegV2SzqJ4AHeROix0JGKEPXjLXSwxgAouBo/w262-h320/joi1.jpg" title="Joi Lansing" width="262" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6XgWdlk5-TDgj6_Oo8-8LD43TMvGDdOb9KKZu0-CeuK7OJai9F7Q5N1DV_vrdRIoP-vCOl5sS5MecNs9SRdNg8v3-BZIjxyJVD5ywGQ6i4sWlcEYCNiKjtMeF8bRMwHMwAtHL093phI/s600/alexisjoi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Joi Lansing Alexis Hunter" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6XgWdlk5-TDgj6_Oo8-8LD43TMvGDdOb9KKZu0-CeuK7OJai9F7Q5N1DV_vrdRIoP-vCOl5sS5MecNs9SRdNg8v3-BZIjxyJVD5ywGQ6i4sWlcEYCNiKjtMeF8bRMwHMwAtHL093phI/w320-h320/alexisjoi.jpg" title="Joi Lansing Alexis Hunter" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">With her girlfriend Alexis Hunter</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Recommended Reading</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3TOitSb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7xYmVgGtfWZMTalaCCUa6cjwLHpU5vr0_Xrv2lLnok9Il3hJyHx1IsIOhzFXp1ErrXMiwm5Cl9Vm_ib_jD7PG6_85aj0l7zPy4stSKnP2oj5XhW7igQPeNEK2pUwTavpQNbfV-pLAenNLgq6kjwWCBHru49vEGV5aL_0L8BvQid60_pBoKzkY8j9kabg/s320/joibook.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<div style="text-align: center;">She was born Eleanor Luicime Compson on March 19, 1897, in Beaver, Utah. Sadly her father died when she was a child. Betty dropped out of high school and got a job as a violinist at a local theater. While performing in vaudeville she was offered a contract with Al Christie's studio. In 1915 she made her film debut in Wanted, A Leading Lady. Over the next four years she appeared in more than forty shorts including Mingling Spirits, He's A Devil, and Down By The Sea. Her big break came in 1919 when she was cast opposite Lon Chaney in the hit drama The Miracle Man. She was signed to a five year contract with Paramount for $2500 a week. Betty was given leading roles in the dramas At The End Of The World and The Law And The Woman. The press called her "The Prettiest Girl in Pictures". In 1921 she became one of the first women to start her own production company. She produced and starred in the films Prisoners Of Love and For Those We Love. While making the drama Ladies Must Love she had an affair with married director George Loane Tucker. Betty left Paramount in 1923 when they refused to increase her salary. On October 14, 1924 she married director James Cruz who had directed her in The Enemy Sex. <br />
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Edmonston on September 15, 1916 in Washington D.C. Her father, Eric Edmonston, worked on the street railway. When she was fourteen she dropped out of high school and moved to New York City to pursue a dancing career. Flo Ziegfeld discovered her and put her in the Ziegfeld Follies. Then she appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities and became Billy Rose's first "Glamazon." The statuesque showgirl was six feet, two inches tall with raven hair and blue eyes. On February 21, 1934 she married forty-two year old Charles Carrera Jr. They split up two years later. Busby Berkeley cast her in his musical Gold Diggers Of 1935. He called her "the girl with the perfect figure". Elinor appeared in numerous films including Meet The Boyfriend, Gold Diggers In Paris, and The Fleet's In. Unfortunately most her roles were bit parts. She dated George Jessel, Lyle Talbot, Franchot Tone, and Frank Fay (the ex-husband of <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2022/09/bararastanwyck.html">Barbara Stanwyck</a>).</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbSKO9dJbnF0J05gHUlxDFfPjcZfj_LHBT6odk-fpyoL-WX2SEurKkYqZZxW4rkjfGVSXAigYXAMRUUBQec-t8klWyQF63HYXPj137LSrqfB3T1RQ7dm6eNSsWTx7KxQ9rQPaE5r0-18rHmxcRLxREy23GdPe_mru_0UJUD1Awd6UIROdAGth66zZOCE/s620/et3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Elinor Troy" border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbSKO9dJbnF0J05gHUlxDFfPjcZfj_LHBT6odk-fpyoL-WX2SEurKkYqZZxW4rkjfGVSXAigYXAMRUUBQec-t8klWyQF63HYXPj137LSrqfB3T1RQ7dm6eNSsWTx7KxQ9rQPaE5r0-18rHmxcRLxREy23GdPe_mru_0UJUD1Awd6UIROdAGth66zZOCE/w258-h320/et3.png" title="Elinor Troy" width="258" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4bZADkazWZgYrUAK2O9zu4rEjP0l3x0b-eo4ht1W-P-Ntd3ld2pZkFcE17BchsQU94ecSXZhR6jiUln1a_xwmo0JH-6GXPY0R8Pp7JLAaVGCP2rC1sbW3Jfl2IiE7nebUfxSKPWo-k9JhOJDeR4WJur9vd_zQybxa64ilCDWYj_p1q5_M7omJy-MmWY/s670/eli7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Elinor Troy" border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN4bZADkazWZgYrUAK2O9zu4rEjP0l3x0b-eo4ht1W-P-Ntd3ld2pZkFcE17BchsQU94ecSXZhR6jiUln1a_xwmo0JH-6GXPY0R8Pp7JLAaVGCP2rC1sbW3Jfl2IiE7nebUfxSKPWo-k9JhOJDeR4WJur9vd_zQybxa64ilCDWYj_p1q5_M7omJy-MmWY/w239-h320/eli7.png" title="Elinor Troy" width="239" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1937 she began an affair with married singer Jack Doyle. His wife divorced him and named her in a "love theft" suit. Elinor made headlines in 1938 when she punched Jack at a nightclub! After a five day romance she became engaged to millionaire Tommy Manville in 1939. They flew to New York City to get married but she left him at the alter. During the 1940s she continued to appear in films and danced in the Follies Bergere. Sadly she developed tuberculosis which forced her to stop working. Her final movie was the 1946 drama Of Human Bondage. By 1948 she was bedridden and nearly bankrupt. Several of her Hollywood friends, including Van Johnson, gave her money to pay for her medical care. Tragically on November 29, 1949 she died from tuberculosis. She was only thirty-three years old. Elinor was buried at
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Sadly her father, James B. Counts, died when she was just five years old. At the age of sixteen she married twenty-two year old Robert Gauldin. The couple had two children - Robert Jr. and Iris. They split up in 1932 but remained legally married until 1945. Eleanor worked in a shoe store and started acting with a local theater troupe. In 1937 she moved to Hollywood and got a job as a cigarette girl in a nightclub. To get herself noticed she picketed outside a movie studio with a sign that read "My Legs Are Nice See! But I Can Act Too! Give Me A Chance!" It worked and she got a bit part in The Big Broadcast Of of 1938. The beautiful starlet appeared in more than a dozen films including Million Dollar Legs, Nothing But The Truth, and So's Your Aunt Emma with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2023/09/zasupitts.html">Zasu Pitts</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0lObwMQKsQPhz9v58jsL6mPxJKKHWJC7D0dlZFE7b0zVsgT4wR8basRTairKBH4KgmhncsMoYhvTq8iMPcvQkAhkNnDB2xXxPmI-Yfs03edabM4Odho2zoYJ3iRbzlVwGsT7YLcgXPS_KsAlQZXGGrt00O3QZrLj7ILjmpviZVd-bECm7lDr9ROUHpvw/s800/counts3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Eleanor Counts" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0lObwMQKsQPhz9v58jsL6mPxJKKHWJC7D0dlZFE7b0zVsgT4wR8basRTairKBH4KgmhncsMoYhvTq8iMPcvQkAhkNnDB2xXxPmI-Yfs03edabM4Odho2zoYJ3iRbzlVwGsT7YLcgXPS_KsAlQZXGGrt00O3QZrLj7ILjmpviZVd-bECm7lDr9ROUHpvw/w200-h320/counts3.png" title="Eleanor Counts" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvhsYEPygBv0kwcZyzyIYzYQJeJogPLLaZPzp0OmoR6uWAMOJWz0XDVzQPVbCDRr4wnNu0_xf9A26U7hx6DAE08i_wQ0HCsN54foH-10cFmKbzOVrvlRCrtkCoWs0ca-NIjH8lDXsheVfsp3YMKjk80-RajX9jMyrrcUDQLjKu3TraR2T3Bq8brFcJxY/s680/counts.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Eleanor Counts" border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvhsYEPygBv0kwcZyzyIYzYQJeJogPLLaZPzp0OmoR6uWAMOJWz0XDVzQPVbCDRr4wnNu0_xf9A26U7hx6DAE08i_wQ0HCsN54foH-10cFmKbzOVrvlRCrtkCoWs0ca-NIjH8lDXsheVfsp3YMKjk80-RajX9jMyrrcUDQLjKu3TraR2T3Bq8brFcJxY/w235-h320/counts.png" title="Eleanor Counts" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Unfortunately she never got any leading roles. During the 1940s she toured the country with Earls Carroll's Scandals and appeared in the Broadway show Catherine Was Great. She told reporters she didn't smoke, didn't drink, and rarely dated. Her last film was the 1947 drama The Unsuspected. Eleanor moved to New York City and began writing a book. After getting into a fight at a hotel she was sent to Bellevue psychiatric hospital. When she was released she announced she was suing the city for $250,000 for "railroading" her into the hospital. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1948. On September 12, 1950 she was found dead at the age of thirty-eight. Tragically she had overdosed on her pain medication. It is unclear if it was an accident or suicide. Eleanor was buried at
Mount Holly Cemetery in
Little Rock, Arkansas.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dybPl33SBn5JvzJP01j5LWEtqj2D_0csT1LtTCtVviElPVaBRDr3HmgJFBrTfgTlD8dIToeYQr9amORsFfG8Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Eleaor and Zasu Pitts in So's Your Aunt Helen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-W9DDi0uHgJ20M0vNtJFdwBuT2k5O4VkhzS9Oo6r9aLFlHyKrmlWbawdrJaThjSHQBo_N_GXnG4-komBZESzGEgnYSpEOz4Z1GLhryt1YfdeFkiBueJiQ44Ryy_CmWSoFniqO0RS1tK88c93Jkoke1s8ca7vhnwFJFnaODID9Ig0RmptWY88vKU9tx-0/s750/auntemma.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Emma Counts Zasu Pitts" border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-W9DDi0uHgJ20M0vNtJFdwBuT2k5O4VkhzS9Oo6r9aLFlHyKrmlWbawdrJaThjSHQBo_N_GXnG4-komBZESzGEgnYSpEOz4Z1GLhryt1YfdeFkiBueJiQ44Ryy_CmWSoFniqO0RS1tK88c93Jkoke1s8ca7vhnwFJFnaODID9Ig0RmptWY88vKU9tx-0/w192-h320/auntemma.png" title="Emma Counts Zasu Pitts" width="192" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVm4volAFuhI4yJBzpyNfvKiJfN2t8p1fW-qcjH0vH-5udJU0Ellzuq3EU5rKIgVlCpGEkeDgvtW5zwpVYNBTIGsSa17kaqbt-GWyu8SG_IFQqKLS0Q_tlJPhUeiyMbdwGqoogTkg6ZPxmLd5WCGKedQnZx2Zc_96xARF6F9Ayxk2VKs6KdsZMxxybGs/s700/counts2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Eleanor Counts" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhVm4volAFuhI4yJBzpyNfvKiJfN2t8p1fW-qcjH0vH-5udJU0Ellzuq3EU5rKIgVlCpGEkeDgvtW5zwpVYNBTIGsSa17kaqbt-GWyu8SG_IFQqKLS0Q_tlJPhUeiyMbdwGqoogTkg6ZPxmLd5WCGKedQnZx2Zc_96xARF6F9Ayxk2VKs6KdsZMxxybGs/w245-h320/counts2.png" title="Eleanor Counts" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-61658628714641587752024-03-08T15:57:00.000-08:002024-03-08T15:57:52.671-08:00Lottie Lyell ~ Australia's First Movie Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiohlQQxAKBVprLZcsNd4_4twco3lLuQ1QBwYRfqLFH3KdeETslGH3HBX-M73saSSsrmFtnBWjWmqBb1N5SRlk_M460BJUl9ByKJt0FXqx2G8LMuxW887Y0zyC-Ag-z4kpxQ7NW_AZaRMcC2_1DnsqrKM2PRzeoMowuYojsHUXeQMmwWRi2rh7ZN4h-APQ/s700/lottie2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lottie Lyell" border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="700" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiohlQQxAKBVprLZcsNd4_4twco3lLuQ1QBwYRfqLFH3KdeETslGH3HBX-M73saSSsrmFtnBWjWmqBb1N5SRlk_M460BJUl9ByKJt0FXqx2G8LMuxW887Y0zyC-Ag-z4kpxQ7NW_AZaRMcC2_1DnsqrKM2PRzeoMowuYojsHUXeQMmwWRi2rh7ZN4h-APQ/w320-h247/lottie2.png" title="Lottie Lyell" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Lottie Lyell was a silent film actress who became known as Australia's first movie star<span><a name='more'></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Lottie Edith Cox on February 23, 1890 in Sydney, Australia. At the age of seventeen she began her acting career on the stage. Lottie toured the country performing with several theater companies. In 1911 she made her film debut in Captain Midnight, The Bush King. That same year had a leading role in The Romantic Story Of Margaret Catchpole. It became a big hit and made her a star in Australia. She began a serious romance with the film's director Raymond Longford. Unfortunately he was married and his Catholic wife refused to give him a divorce. Raymond directed her in more than twenty films movies including The Midnight Wedding, Australia Calls, The Sentimental Bloke, and The Mutiny On The Bounty.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6r5mJ9qDj4mShhO0l_S79RaqjaiQTg0d6ylsPPWCR-L3RZ_LgV4agFQWwFAnBcaOuYFLUiKWyMgPzQwiUl35W077tcIb5X6O49uCmn4In9OE1wxydaFMo6cu3FIrPviqy03X3QCeq8CV-PHd4ASzqfJcfsSp290TB3ttS1frrZLsCsBrs2g6vSXTTl9Q/s700/lottie.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lottie Lyell" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="700" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6r5mJ9qDj4mShhO0l_S79RaqjaiQTg0d6ylsPPWCR-L3RZ_LgV4agFQWwFAnBcaOuYFLUiKWyMgPzQwiUl35W077tcIb5X6O49uCmn4In9OE1wxydaFMo6cu3FIrPviqy03X3QCeq8CV-PHd4ASzqfJcfsSp290TB3ttS1frrZLsCsBrs2g6vSXTTl9Q/w320-h274/lottie.png" title="Lottie Lyell" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Lottie helped to write the scripts for most of her films. The lovely brunette also did all of her own stunts. In 1921 she wrote, directed, and starred in The Blue Mountains Mystery. She and Raymond moved in together even though he remained legally married to his wife. The couple formed a production company in 1922. During the early 1920s she began suffering from health problems and had to stop working. Her final film was the 1923 silent drama The Dinkum Bloke. Tragically on December 21, 1925 she died from tuberculosis. Lottie was only thirty-five years old. She was buried at
Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium in North Ryde, Australia. When her longtime partner Raymond died in 1959 he was buried next to her.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoMqlEH0iPiaiIZXYfKBpZ0DO9A1x_wvGQ6Np72IMRxJvNw2EIKTMA3Km26RXdajLfkokLq6JmKiZszAO1g9ym83AizW4pXZIWHZkz2tNtcGySa9qm6kksHHuWyYi2r4EB4G0bbXCrmy1OKCbfQIcYLsXa9Xg-MWpMy8NK2noTymuR5SSwPsz3PTdjpZc/s560/lottie3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lottie Lyell" border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoMqlEH0iPiaiIZXYfKBpZ0DO9A1x_wvGQ6Np72IMRxJvNw2EIKTMA3Km26RXdajLfkokLq6JmKiZszAO1g9ym83AizW4pXZIWHZkz2tNtcGySa9qm6kksHHuWyYi2r4EB4G0bbXCrmy1OKCbfQIcYLsXa9Xg-MWpMy8NK2noTymuR5SSwPsz3PTdjpZc/w303-h320/lottie3.png" title="Lottie Lyell" width="303" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-35388644190574777322024-03-05T18:29:00.000-08:002024-03-05T18:29:25.792-08:00Ann Miller ~ The Talented Dancer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VqtXPkm6P5hJaGy-VLmCcFjxcKLCmGpdsCKaKm-mBwmwi-6YO3MloVg7uF3mR3-qxXUdu-lkaJSuTQJF_6eGGw9htBls-DReEEaIEcRiYeWBeYtBuuyQI0OiEtoafFXumuR4jbjyG51k1j0kc8lC_ZdjqsY1Zqw0uvvs-SZxn4hUAjxb7y35h3Ix_aA/s700/am1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Miller In Color" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_VqtXPkm6P5hJaGy-VLmCcFjxcKLCmGpdsCKaKm-mBwmwi-6YO3MloVg7uF3mR3-qxXUdu-lkaJSuTQJF_6eGGw9htBls-DReEEaIEcRiYeWBeYtBuuyQI0OiEtoafFXumuR4jbjyG51k1j0kc8lC_ZdjqsY1Zqw0uvvs-SZxn4hUAjxb7y35h3Ix_aA/w238-h320/am1.png" title="Ann Miller In Color" width="238" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Ann Miller was a popular actress who became known for her tap dancing skills<span><a name='more'></a></span><span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She was born Johnnie Lucille Collier on April 12, 1923 in Houston, Texas. When she was a child she was diagnosed with rickets and started taking dance lessons to strengthen her legs. After her parents divorced she and her mother moved to Los Angeles, California. At the age of eleven she made her film debut in Anne Of Green Gables. Ann began dancing in nightclubs when she was a teenager. <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/lucille-ball.html">Lucille Ball</a> saw her dance and helped her get a contract with RKO in 1937. She lies to the studio telling them she was eighteen even though she was only fourteen. The lovely brunette was given supporting roles in films like Stage Door and Too Many Girls. Ann quickly became known for her sensational tap dancing skills. During the 1940s she appeared in numerous B-movies including Time Out For Rhythm, True To The Army, and Caroline Blues. In 1946 she married millionaire Reese Milner and became pregnant. When she was in last trimester her husband violently pushed down a flight a stairs causing her to go into premature labor. Tragically her daughter, Mary, lived only three hours. After divorcing Reese she had brief romances with Milton Berle, Tony Martin, and Howard Hughes. She was signed by MGM in 1948. It was rumored that she had an affair with MGM president Louis B. Mayer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50QVTCVpln_tQJYhl5veES_euB3TRLgwbMExSs9MU15jEC1k7i078V7ZCssSZQ7nuWBiIrIf_hyDLjJ3K49V1_Y0DSbzjruQHPQx3cLyyzuMsmXl6aSGoFnw2on8__x23YTM3qXMB4-an67e6_X7Acpmc3vhezVE0Sh7jE19mldHwwgZnfeVVo-uUxpk/s700/am4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50QVTCVpln_tQJYhl5veES_euB3TRLgwbMExSs9MU15jEC1k7i078V7ZCssSZQ7nuWBiIrIf_hyDLjJ3K49V1_Y0DSbzjruQHPQx3cLyyzuMsmXl6aSGoFnw2on8__x23YTM3qXMB4-an67e6_X7Acpmc3vhezVE0Sh7jE19mldHwwgZnfeVVo-uUxpk/w254-h320/am4.png" title="Ann Miller" width="254" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGv8u5UAeuXBQ-DB18tSEFow0R_OtOVb7R9odKI5L-9Lf87Bvs2lENE1Qjygfc3MVzDMMKTsQLnj6gEdAqB4ArmnIqqYEcNm_7atR26eBgM1-dKL0tdtE1CJwwPdwinB5W2v8PnOaBi8YiGdN6ZTog73uL1rbQzkoO_krh-SLpr_aQHcqwOvuhwof7_hY/s620/am2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Miller In Color" border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGv8u5UAeuXBQ-DB18tSEFow0R_OtOVb7R9odKI5L-9Lf87Bvs2lENE1Qjygfc3MVzDMMKTsQLnj6gEdAqB4ArmnIqqYEcNm_7atR26eBgM1-dKL0tdtE1CJwwPdwinB5W2v8PnOaBi8YiGdN6ZTog73uL1rbQzkoO_krh-SLpr_aQHcqwOvuhwof7_hY/w284-h320/am2.png" title="Ann Miller In Color" width="284" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ann appeared in the hit musicals Easter Parade, On The Town, and Kiss Me Kate. Unfortunately she rarely got the chance to play any leading roles. By the late 1950s her film career had stalled and she began working in theater. She fell madly in love with politician William O'Connor. Sadly he was married and his Catholic wife refused to give him a divorce. On the rebound she married William Moss, a rich oilman, in 1958. O'Connor tried to stop the wedding but he was too late. Her husband became abusive and she left him in 1961. Ann's third marriage, to millionaire Arthur Cameron, lasted only a year. In 1969 she starred in the musical Mame on Broadway. The she toured with productions of Hello Dolly and Panama Hattie. Her autobiography, <a href="https://amzn.to/3w493sy">Miller's High Life</a>, was published in 1972. She was nominated for a Tony award in 1979 for her role in Sugar Babies with Mickey Rooney. As she got older she was often interviewed in documentaries about the Golden Age of Hollywood. Director David Lynch cast her in his 2001 drama Mulholland Drive. It would be her final film role. On January 22, 2004 she died from lung cancer at the age of eighty. Ann was buried next to her infant daughter at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=YaQPuytIVQrQoVT4&list=PLH25K1M_hrtuPWaUOG2o0F3UAMW1s2fzO" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pSHkxZLiUripJyXm3KbEZwwgnlwgsrKamAFCLoQKghvr86En-rV6_0azfq_aIAgEIxWD_RPGpSgnQ5MQ-cZAGE7tgxNGiIp-c__CZPR4VEdtiXBl00Dwzpd1ZcpzHiRiqHoPyj4OBM0B6KqwCqxxOEQv5mXJ6NUQpyyKVWpSEz7Au2WE2XoRlEg29oE/s700/am3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pSHkxZLiUripJyXm3KbEZwwgnlwgsrKamAFCLoQKghvr86En-rV6_0azfq_aIAgEIxWD_RPGpSgnQ5MQ-cZAGE7tgxNGiIp-c__CZPR4VEdtiXBl00Dwzpd1ZcpzHiRiqHoPyj4OBM0B6KqwCqxxOEQv5mXJ6NUQpyyKVWpSEz7Au2WE2XoRlEg29oE/w263-h320/am3.png" title="Ann Miller" width="263" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXXOihcKa1USgXrcqljkvqNeAiibbt7dCuSbdK8ynpoEkVqEM0VhmIs-sInEM7OosOwLMc3g-Q0AP1aHeb4XfOBSQhdgHGeUz9HYjZnLFc52sn3K_Z0-EvP89SXl43L7hJFdgR-4bE8QWsRG1GQigJeXSD_uMNJSVskyW24lubhCSVL4tlgt6J83WblQ/s700/annmillerchess.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Miller In Color" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="615" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJXXOihcKa1USgXrcqljkvqNeAiibbt7dCuSbdK8ynpoEkVqEM0VhmIs-sInEM7OosOwLMc3g-Q0AP1aHeb4XfOBSQhdgHGeUz9HYjZnLFc52sn3K_Z0-EvP89SXl43L7hJFdgR-4bE8QWsRG1GQigJeXSD_uMNJSVskyW24lubhCSVL4tlgt6J83WblQ/w281-h320/annmillerchess.png" title="Ann Miller In Color" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-70359094431237597712024-02-27T10:06:00.000-08:002024-02-27T10:06:53.188-08:00Helena Pickard ~ Cedric Hardwick's Tragic Wife<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTmqFWtsJ9m4BLMmIkKPNWbNQheuw1P4xkDCHkPrh8OPDv6vPpgx26sZght84nT78mob0WDXT7SX_8Af6CmOQdCQYjxu5nQKrszevOccEzSU9aBFSWotZq9Z9CpevM3c6SGQVuuwF_0zzMhNVPMaYY3r3sebN8xOAf1eR2d65ekrCrzSoY1EvGWrhx20/s700/helena3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helena Pickard" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggTmqFWtsJ9m4BLMmIkKPNWbNQheuw1P4xkDCHkPrh8OPDv6vPpgx26sZght84nT78mob0WDXT7SX_8Af6CmOQdCQYjxu5nQKrszevOccEzSU9aBFSWotZq9Z9CpevM3c6SGQVuuwF_0zzMhNVPMaYY3r3sebN8xOAf1eR2d65ekrCrzSoY1EvGWrhx20/w229-h320/helena3.png" title="Helena Pickard" width="229" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Helena Pickard was a British actress who was married to Cedric Hardwicke<span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Helena Marie Pickard on October 13, 1900 in Sheffield, England. After high school she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Then she began her career acting on the London stage. In 1924 she made her film debut in the short The Clicking Of Cuthbert. Helena married actor Cedric Hardwicke in 1927. The couple had a son named Edward. During the 1930s she had supporting roles in numerous British films including Music Hall, Splinters In The Navy, Limelight. Although her performances got good reviews she rarely got the chance to play a leading role. She appeared on Broadway in The Country Wife and Flare Path. Sadly her brother, Percy Pickard, was killed during World War 2. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie90SeS1OsnH7i7HF_zqbz0qxPcNKSp9NYqFn_pSVWEkZsRPxGOrz-COY0M9Ojsvdr4NLQO2JIK7TfIX7dPtNA9H80RdUSqiRTh2AQDweoZdKmHbNP5cH96gY5vJoHap_I85p8XvSLDzapvk_rdP_aGIyoKUvPoJgjeuwU_wGKjq1HmdgjtUBQL-QBmqU/s645/helena4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helena Pickard" border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie90SeS1OsnH7i7HF_zqbz0qxPcNKSp9NYqFn_pSVWEkZsRPxGOrz-COY0M9Ojsvdr4NLQO2JIK7TfIX7dPtNA9H80RdUSqiRTh2AQDweoZdKmHbNP5cH96gY5vJoHap_I85p8XvSLDzapvk_rdP_aGIyoKUvPoJgjeuwU_wGKjq1HmdgjtUBQL-QBmqU/w248-h320/helena4.png" title="Helena Pickard" width="248" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCM0RYWIFyQSBgAy7yWDL48vahk4Rm9B_GdpmG9RcSxjNnTwHHaLhXTOVOznfxNCkTY_uR7ZvzBhyV43hFQM34CfonnWdMkPMVfi5Zqe4vVn5gq2vRjfAMh9X5OzFQ5Vhk5yEWr47RHPCCSwzl8CTJ5XJvaKunpLSp3oDOXL_TECosf3-1O09qC5AqQw/s736/helena1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helena Pickard" border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBCM0RYWIFyQSBgAy7yWDL48vahk4Rm9B_GdpmG9RcSxjNnTwHHaLhXTOVOznfxNCkTY_uR7ZvzBhyV43hFQM34CfonnWdMkPMVfi5Zqe4vVn5gq2vRjfAMh9X5OzFQ5Vhk5yEWr47RHPCCSwzl8CTJ5XJvaKunpLSp3oDOXL_TECosf3-1O09qC5AqQw/w217-h320/helena1.png" title="Helena Pickard" width="217" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;">Helena worked with her husband in the 1944 drama The Lodger. After twenty-three years of marriage she divorced Cedric in 1950 due to his infidelity. In 1956 she married Herbert Rothbarth, a financier. Unfortunately she suffered from numerous health problems and became addicted to barbiturates. Her final film was the 1956 crime drama Doublecross. Tragically on September 27, 1959 she died from overdose of sleeping pills. She was only fifty-eight years old. The coroner ruled her death was accidental. Helena was cremated and her ashes were buried at Golders Green crematorium in Golders Green, England. Just three months after she died her widow Herbert was killed in a car accident.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Vtv_z4ZncnkeQTBNIaNUd_Jbob4jvgBCO52hvq7dOtsu6M8XzFl4-7V9cRBR7_Zu0m_mrLb3SRBGjIi4ZS9P9nt8DuBg6Mnqy9R_osu5AhflypTaHW-N47ghHXTZ71Q0f29k56ubrDOZ-jTAEazggLRbIHpoTWZbOBRfzkKkxQ1gGbsVeXvynLFb1rI/s700/helena2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helena Pickard Edward Hardwicke" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Vtv_z4ZncnkeQTBNIaNUd_Jbob4jvgBCO52hvq7dOtsu6M8XzFl4-7V9cRBR7_Zu0m_mrLb3SRBGjIi4ZS9P9nt8DuBg6Mnqy9R_osu5AhflypTaHW-N47ghHXTZ71Q0f29k56ubrDOZ-jTAEazggLRbIHpoTWZbOBRfzkKkxQ1gGbsVeXvynLFb1rI/w293-h320/helena2.png" title="Helena Pickard Edward Hardwicke" width="293" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KNWX1xhEff299lFFt6-8T2_8d0bgu1IpJrKIGTkM3xXcSKYTqocM0gcFbw0eVTts1Nzg34HUFGe-EJWAcXElDRoghkpkc4rQj-kHvnn3jrixmGEh5fh0RQH6yF9qlFZUcg3MUAywOVY_CV_pItk7RNbo_fHEDA1_BOqmgg89EnTkLXW_jfehqXrq39s/s550/pickard.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helena Pickard Edward Hardwicke Cedric Hardwicke" border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="550" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KNWX1xhEff299lFFt6-8T2_8d0bgu1IpJrKIGTkM3xXcSKYTqocM0gcFbw0eVTts1Nzg34HUFGe-EJWAcXElDRoghkpkc4rQj-kHvnn3jrixmGEh5fh0RQH6yF9qlFZUcg3MUAywOVY_CV_pItk7RNbo_fHEDA1_BOqmgg89EnTkLXW_jfehqXrq39s/w200-h191/pickard.png" title="Helena Pickard Edward Hardwicke Cedric Hardwicke" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Helena with Cedric Hardwicke and their son Edward</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-82427557962644041282024-02-27T08:16:00.000-08:002024-02-27T08:16:00.404-08:00Mary Eaton ~ The Tragic Sister<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4qPRm55geCk59zpkd8pRCgdhz90OjrlrtgPtpg9mCRj5i7HShVMigKFynMU3HvohgGlFwOLZcg4FQFILxLTyZIh5yCCdwBbt-09Fzkf8wkZAAQC068HqPJU71hlAm-ShExPNd5vEAWU/s710/m3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN4qPRm55geCk59zpkd8pRCgdhz90OjrlrtgPtpg9mCRj5i7HShVMigKFynMU3HvohgGlFwOLZcg4FQFILxLTyZIh5yCCdwBbt-09Fzkf8wkZAAQC068HqPJU71hlAm-ShExPNd5vEAWU/w225-h320/m3.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="225" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Mary Eaton was a Ziegfeld Follies dancer and actress who became an alcoholic and died young<span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Mary Elizabeth Eaton on January 29, 1901 in Norfolk, Virginia. During her childhood she took dance lessons and performed with her siblings as one of The Seven Little Eatons. At the age of ten Mary appeared in the fantasy play The Blue Bird. She starred in several Broadway shows including Follow Me, The Royal Vagabond, and Over The Top with Fred Astaire. Her performances won rave reviews and she became a popular performer. In 1920 the beautiful blonde was asked to join the Ziegfeld Follies as a featured dancer. She would spend four seasons with the show. Two of her sisters, Doris Eaton and <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2023/08/pearleaton.html">Pearl Eaton</a>, also danced in the Follies. Mary made her film debut in the 1923 drama His Children's Children directed by Sam Wood. Then she replaced Marilyn Miller in the Broadway show Kid Boots.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjoAlPnBmPrRsjmlCynSdoS8a5QfYHxImyZE8Rf8uHAlbQIj-xAiJ9bWrA6HIylyrpNobmvAQmdP_RioCso2431V7GDOnkGg9WzHESDcakFtaOqEok_ucz5bJ3kZ-MBdG7LbaV1rRx6A/s640/mary1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIjoAlPnBmPrRsjmlCynSdoS8a5QfYHxImyZE8Rf8uHAlbQIj-xAiJ9bWrA6HIylyrpNobmvAQmdP_RioCso2431V7GDOnkGg9WzHESDcakFtaOqEok_ucz5bJ3kZ-MBdG7LbaV1rRx6A/w272-h320/mary1.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="272" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-u-JH8gvdbijpDau2-TL5M-a2OjgM-qIxKdWJFEiVJnYfTtH2EbPSlh0HeEtFL9CQfufVvg92FQD1zz3qfbGM7ssCJKGrlRBt20GVtpwP96rPRa8keYyeRcb1Q6200sqOAaKrOlozVI/s720/eaton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw-u-JH8gvdbijpDau2-TL5M-a2OjgM-qIxKdWJFEiVJnYfTtH2EbPSlh0HeEtFL9CQfufVvg92FQD1zz3qfbGM7ssCJKGrlRBt20GVtpwP96rPRa8keYyeRcb1Q6200sqOAaKrOlozVI/w222-h320/eaton.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="222" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjP8fi1eh2Yjornp7t5aPMZnR5VqBG0u5Caz8COhtLTFpci1YWGDgpbYYS2xxCdsKmEIU368i-wDkA3J2e9X4-RmitoAKTDz-_WZDc8csMdGCZYEFXw-egyvcb9HGYM9uG_0LHb5t00c/s630/nudeeaton.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLjP8fi1eh2Yjornp7t5aPMZnR5VqBG0u5Caz8COhtLTFpci1YWGDgpbYYS2xxCdsKmEIU368i-wDkA3J2e9X4-RmitoAKTDz-_WZDc8csMdGCZYEFXw-egyvcb9HGYM9uG_0LHb5t00c/w254-h320/nudeeaton.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="254" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;">She costarred with the Marx Brothers in the 1929 comedy Coconuts. That same year she had a starring role in the musical Glorifying The American Girl. Mary married the film's director, Millard Webb, on September 1, 1929. Unfortunately both she and her husband were alcoholics. Tragically Millard died in 1935 from an intestinal ailment. She married Charles Avery, rancher, in 1937. The couple divorced five years later. By this time her stage career was over. Her last professional job was a bit part in the 1942 film We'll Smile Again. Mary tried to give up drinking many times but she always relapsed. In 1944 she married actor Eddie Laughton. They moved into a modest home on Fuller Avenue in Los Angeles. Tragically on October 10, 1948 she died from cardiac failure caused by her chronic alcoholism. She was only forty-seven years old. Mary was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.</p><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Hyf0M_1CKw?si=hclAF3-5T-RdgBUT" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></center><center><br /></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1QaQKhx9khwaD-reEvylbbFhtHsViKdELlPXpY3iWuXuyoy5DIpjH1D5tMAHeObBci_4rSJlQjD_MlWpcx_GDjhyMCCXBuwHxGUn_AIZrhh9tEbcyS1MEujRIYrcSTA4XvMlPZX208U/s1255/eatondeath.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton Death Certificate" border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1255" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB1QaQKhx9khwaD-reEvylbbFhtHsViKdELlPXpY3iWuXuyoy5DIpjH1D5tMAHeObBci_4rSJlQjD_MlWpcx_GDjhyMCCXBuwHxGUn_AIZrhh9tEbcyS1MEujRIYrcSTA4XvMlPZX208U/w320-h306/eatondeath.jpg" title="Mary Eaton Death Certificate" width="320" /></a></center><center><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mary's death certificate</span></b></center><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66PdJJWToIGIogjsADb-aQVTuwvVl6kybvj63blMZq-9Is4gHAIkA4ouKXwoHrTJeJtjpi1fPv3f1D7JwekXRDNZrvF0E6bxaEpUQjfcCK3D1trSeIDDNw00TNYsyPTrs9czxhdh777A/s700/meaton2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg66PdJJWToIGIogjsADb-aQVTuwvVl6kybvj63blMZq-9Is4gHAIkA4ouKXwoHrTJeJtjpi1fPv3f1D7JwekXRDNZrvF0E6bxaEpUQjfcCK3D1trSeIDDNw00TNYsyPTrs9czxhdh777A/w234-h320/meaton2.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="234" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1wfLD-sWWPtpsdyTxnuX_vLfQGC4JeGv4HkPOY5G6WucA_POPm3hKcial1lazi7HkM5_6RmVBkr3ZOIppkCO5DB8KVEkOM_95bB3qVjVgbYgFEzWym6ghWa5_EYYYAxSkrEKOrIex9E/s700/mary2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Mary Eaton" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz1wfLD-sWWPtpsdyTxnuX_vLfQGC4JeGv4HkPOY5G6WucA_POPm3hKcial1lazi7HkM5_6RmVBkr3ZOIppkCO5DB8KVEkOM_95bB3qVjVgbYgFEzWym6ghWa5_EYYYAxSkrEKOrIex9E/w229-h320/mary2.jpg" title="Mary Eaton" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-26641662700927473842024-02-12T01:10:00.000-08:002024-02-12T01:10:09.529-08:00Clara Bow ~ The It Girl's Unhappy Life<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tmhMDgVh-Pjmx5OV9bk4jN4Pp9Qj3-ByQqKboQhjjpttwqQFRyqfGhwoGXzWJpDAv9wYsFPaUvq9bX_WNnV6yvmJFku9XjDHW8AI7r8xN-C-HaM5upV7rYxCXoEuQr72Y1rrYjmJUxA/s1600/clarared.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Clara Bow" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2tmhMDgVh-Pjmx5OV9bk4jN4Pp9Qj3-ByQqKboQhjjpttwqQFRyqfGhwoGXzWJpDAv9wYsFPaUvq9bX_WNnV6yvmJFku9XjDHW8AI7r8xN-C-HaM5upV7rYxCXoEuQr72Y1rrYjmJUxA/w292-h320/clarared.jpg" title="Clara Bow" width="292" /></a></div>
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<b>Clara Bow was Hollywood's It Girl but her personal life was filled with heartbreak and tragedy</b><br />
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She was born Clara Gordon Bow on July 29, 1905, in Brooklyn, New York. Sadly her mother, Sarah Bow, suffered from psychosis due to epilepsy. Sarah was institutionalized after she tried to kill young Clara with a butcher knife. Unfortunately after her mother was sent away her alcoholic father, Robert Bow, started sexually abusing her. When she was sixteen she entered a contest in Motion Picture magazine and won a screen test. Clara made her film debut in the 1922 silent drama Beyond The Rainbow. The beautiful redhead was offered a contract with Preferred Pictures. Then she was chosen to be one of the Wampas Baby Stars of 1924. During this time she also posed nude for photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. In 1925 she appeared in fourteen films including The Plastic Age, Parisian Love, and The Primrose Path. While filming Mantrap in 1926 she started dating director Victor Fleming. She was cast as a carefree flapper in the 1927 comedy It. The film was a huge hit and made her a superstar. From then on she was known as "The It Girl". Next she starred in the hit drama Wings which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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Her parents divorced and tragically her father died when she was fourteen. After her mother remarried the family moved to San francisco, California. Alma made her film debut in the 1919 short His Friend's Trip. She appeared in dozens of silent films including Her Boyfriend, Lilies Of The Field, A Fool And His Money, and The Thrill Hunter. The beautiful brunette was often cast as a vamp. On December 3, 1924 she married Frederick Bennett, a radio operator. Unfortunately he became abusive and she left him just ten months later. Alma was offered a five contract with Famous Players. She worked with Wallace Beery in The Lost World and with Harry Langdon in The Jolly Jilter.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheczxw_RpqJMNG4FIs-uDi-qz1ex03-fA6JiIAns-6Q-oWgQIE5rML1acWM-QxSpxWDe3CCUhdgInPSP-Ii6IAshb8dqVPucpJ8JcbRjypingZ46rEyg833jZvJT1Q87Sob1u2XXIcT_dJoFJ_hmqA506eqClJ8_38UM6vCMrk9QRU96Y06pPYKfRtBAU/s700/alma2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alma Bennett" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheczxw_RpqJMNG4FIs-uDi-qz1ex03-fA6JiIAns-6Q-oWgQIE5rML1acWM-QxSpxWDe3CCUhdgInPSP-Ii6IAshb8dqVPucpJ8JcbRjypingZ46rEyg833jZvJT1Q87Sob1u2XXIcT_dJoFJ_hmqA506eqClJ8_38UM6vCMrk9QRU96Y06pPYKfRtBAU/w240-h320/alma2.png" title="Alma Bennett" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlqNv69ddZ5eYbNmevDRgs08yIrpc1MXbAThoJpy0W8wkt5_2lTWwQ0gQZhz_bZJNbq5WFH1cHPwFyCQDigEGctUpBQKh3_sJpqwbyuegfq30mqp3BpgTQMYrEax5KG0m4iUPxB270vTQENSkXEV46SQsofJLsq1E3AkptxxKrFnW1FXOfAWzvSRHOuQ/s700/almab.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alma Bennett" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBlqNv69ddZ5eYbNmevDRgs08yIrpc1MXbAThoJpy0W8wkt5_2lTWwQ0gQZhz_bZJNbq5WFH1cHPwFyCQDigEGctUpBQKh3_sJpqwbyuegfq30mqp3BpgTQMYrEax5KG0m4iUPxB270vTQENSkXEV46SQsofJLsq1E3AkptxxKrFnW1FXOfAWzvSRHOuQ/w229-h320/almab.png" title="Alma Bennett" width="229" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In 1929 she married Harry Spingler, her manager. Like many silent screen actresses she had a difficult time making the transition to talkies. Her final film was the 1931 comedy The Great Pie Mystery. Alma would spend the rest of her life out of the spotlight. During the 1940s she got a job as an assembler at an electronics plant. As she grew older she developed serious drinking problem. Sadly her husband Harry died in 1953. The following year she married actor Blackie Whiteford On September 16, 1958 she died from lobar pneumonia and "severe fatty degeneration of the liver". She was only fifty-four years old. Alma was cremated and buried at the Chapel of the Pines crematory in Los Angeles, California.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2qNrBhRLPlhKL-POwrRwhAA5CTrt-NeGkTdR2h6gVkXl5ap8LlqTfNXiZS94N24h7EdwHzdZisdEHiyblbvXKbpIaUQYPYIE_rt8SQApW9tBucvthGAq8pFcagF5lOXT2mTGXbI7WKGlRw-VW_CZOwu6ctGKMGWlPjuvO3BXOoJksQZZfe8w1zgMu3E/s700/ab.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alma Bennett" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO2qNrBhRLPlhKL-POwrRwhAA5CTrt-NeGkTdR2h6gVkXl5ap8LlqTfNXiZS94N24h7EdwHzdZisdEHiyblbvXKbpIaUQYPYIE_rt8SQApW9tBucvthGAq8pFcagF5lOXT2mTGXbI7WKGlRw-VW_CZOwu6ctGKMGWlPjuvO3BXOoJksQZZfe8w1zgMu3E/w261-h320/ab.png" title="Alma Bennett" width="261" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimoMJpkWP20xbSeTYZYRmj3vOMjmQjR38zNAoXirze0ZLf0rW1EcZi9LU_1yWe-bKNHWBwy5Ms-QMsRSZMf3X50Av_xfPdsFQll49mzWm8horhT_RprJqs3RhUo9lvuZxc4pRVwn9Pjt0zO1cu6C84ihpOyTCgohAd3NMQljf_JlfXC567PlC-yyyh5A/s600/alma4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Alma Bennett" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimoMJpkWP20xbSeTYZYRmj3vOMjmQjR38zNAoXirze0ZLf0rW1EcZi9LU_1yWe-bKNHWBwy5Ms-QMsRSZMf3X50Av_xfPdsFQll49mzWm8horhT_RprJqs3RhUo9lvuZxc4pRVwn9Pjt0zO1cu6C84ihpOyTCgohAd3NMQljf_JlfXC567PlC-yyyh5A/w267-h320/alma4.png" title="Alma Bennett" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-90647314238777843402024-02-11T18:24:00.000-08:002024-02-11T18:24:51.932-08:00Lillian Roth ~ The Star Who Beat Alcoholism<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-aCCDikPh9_u5Z1bWKOLDyhXeyg57pnKdSxd9u7Ti_uZZTqW-qNIcXSGrTPEulGYP7vjcUU3aqoOO7P5qQ0ZyhdjhIKKlUL4UNeFPeEOcfp3NHdwZIv2k7VEJH4pF72J9kcIER7VNCFHVhF_WabBMQSNKdMAIgTbjQvVUGO8Ls0opZt30KUu59Ax91g/s700/roth1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz-aCCDikPh9_u5Z1bWKOLDyhXeyg57pnKdSxd9u7Ti_uZZTqW-qNIcXSGrTPEulGYP7vjcUU3aqoOO7P5qQ0ZyhdjhIKKlUL4UNeFPeEOcfp3NHdwZIv2k7VEJH4pF72J9kcIER7VNCFHVhF_WabBMQSNKdMAIgTbjQvVUGO8Ls0opZt30KUu59Ax91g/w258-h320/roth1.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="258" /></a></div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><b>Lillian Roth was an actress and singer who overcame a serious addiction to alcohol<span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Lillian Rutstein on December 13, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her ambitious mother, Katie Rutstein, was determined to make her a star. Lillian attended the Professional Children's School in New York City. Sadly at the age of six she was sexually molested by an artist she posed for. In 1917 she made her Broadway debut in The Inner Man. The following year she had a bit part in the film Pershing's Crusaders. Then she and her younger sister Anne toured the country with a popular vaudeville act. They were billed as Broadway's Youngest Stars. When she was a teenager she sang in Earl Carroll's Vanities and in Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. She was engaged to her agent David Lyons but tragically he died from tuberculosis. Lillian was so devastated by his death that she began drinking. Paramount offered her a seven film contract in 1929. The lovely brunette appeared in numerous films including Animal Crackers, Madame Satan, and The Vagabond King with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/06/jeanette-macdonald-nelson-eddys-love.html">Jeanette Macdonald</a>. She was promoted as the girl with "the best legs in Hollywood". Her rendition of "Sing You Sinners" in the 1930 film Honey became a huge hit. On April 11, 1931 she married William C. Scott, an aviator. Soon after she found out she was pregnant and had an abortion. After divorcing William in 1932 she married Benjamin Shalleck, a municipal court justice.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxM2wx0W25feMON8FWIPp_-sUeuID0GJLSJhAqvKeHw7x2nXkh-jvN2GYJYU99NuQsQgar8gEy81d_szGx5xfLGkJX_922Wjf9jg_i6I0Pgc34Q0HffjN9E1-K1xjyrwdLLqVeFekHYBRlWK9dJ4l44e-r6a9NycPAq8AbAsm5QFMvyNogK1NBNp070c/s700/roth5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVxM2wx0W25feMON8FWIPp_-sUeuID0GJLSJhAqvKeHw7x2nXkh-jvN2GYJYU99NuQsQgar8gEy81d_szGx5xfLGkJX_922Wjf9jg_i6I0Pgc34Q0HffjN9E1-K1xjyrwdLLqVeFekHYBRlWK9dJ4l44e-r6a9NycPAq8AbAsm5QFMvyNogK1NBNp070c/w247-h320/roth5.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="247" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-TLJEj4RTqWRlCWvQLw6U55pceJS6Ow7QKTFHY4ysDLXmyoiyNeP72yNNpH7_RtuiG6Pi_Z2EixEl7ZXDd8fY2zKPRbSe12blinzeIhkVm4WXA-OEKQj-KeDknqo1tP9XGi-XqyEoCH4s_5qXxo_lSVVcgRBUNc-YB2salOi-PeZeUCnrjoTO4HBMR8/s700/roth6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-TLJEj4RTqWRlCWvQLw6U55pceJS6Ow7QKTFHY4ysDLXmyoiyNeP72yNNpH7_RtuiG6Pi_Z2EixEl7ZXDd8fY2zKPRbSe12blinzeIhkVm4WXA-OEKQj-KeDknqo1tP9XGi-XqyEoCH4s_5qXxo_lSVVcgRBUNc-YB2salOi-PeZeUCnrjoTO4HBMR8/w242-h320/roth6.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvlkevt5RyrkyjsYCt_99z1sC_M7evqEJWVTRuQyz2x7NZWOP41DOlia8gnzNO0x0as90eFoikJoCv-Iekb90Vxqg8MiemGxOl914UPtqNVf_LKJL6gSXIJwifurIt1YRrzwNHOBOIAy0uvqKgZAGp5IH6ho6XMTM7qThXgSRjpWuyQem-dwgaJFIyPc/s700/lillianroth.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdvlkevt5RyrkyjsYCt_99z1sC_M7evqEJWVTRuQyz2x7NZWOP41DOlia8gnzNO0x0as90eFoikJoCv-Iekb90Vxqg8MiemGxOl914UPtqNVf_LKJL6gSXIJwifurIt1YRrzwNHOBOIAy0uvqKgZAGp5IH6ho6XMTM7qThXgSRjpWuyQem-dwgaJFIyPc/w242-h320/lillianroth.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">When Paramount dropped her contract her film career quickly stalled. Lillian appeared in the short films Million Dollar Melody and Masks And Memories. By 1939 her marriage to Benjamin was over and she was struggling with a serious alcohol problem. She married Eugene Weiner, an importer, in 1940. Unfortunately he became abusive and she left him after just five months. In March of 1942 she married Edward Goldman, a produce grower. They divorced three years later. Lillian became very depressed and almost committed suicide by throwing herself out of a window. Then she decided to get help for her drinking by joining Alcoholics Anonymous. At a meeting she met publisher Burt McGuire, who became her fifth husband in 1947. During the 1950s she recorded several albums and wrote her best-selling autobiography "<a href="https://amzn.to/3SaZTlk">I'll Cry Tomorrow</a>". The book was made into a movie in 1955 starring Susan Hayward. Her marriage to Burt ended in 1963. She returned to the screen in 1976 with a role in the horror film Alice Sweet Alice. Her final role was in the 1979 drama Boardwalk. On May 12, 1980 she died from a stroke at the age of sixty-nine. Lillian was buried at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. The epitaph on her grave says "As Bad As It Was It Was Good."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieP2vyRlcChMK1X20_vv1YjrKIbLBH9t4g5RRp058jbThvGO3hyphenhyphendn9Nm0zrQRaQY-AiRvxXeSn85BoAD5ucGOHyonLQhqnuksNBMyECIA_H5Y7616jDpKd4GZygWgxOXKPZhyphenhyphenR69tVNRfMzbGc-RDlrugvOUsksYGj76K2aW4UMHr5A2bAeq4uOJdScHA/s904/roth2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="904" data-original-width="659" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieP2vyRlcChMK1X20_vv1YjrKIbLBH9t4g5RRp058jbThvGO3hyphenhyphendn9Nm0zrQRaQY-AiRvxXeSn85BoAD5ucGOHyonLQhqnuksNBMyECIA_H5Y7616jDpKd4GZygWgxOXKPZhyphenhyphenR69tVNRfMzbGc-RDlrugvOUsksYGj76K2aW4UMHr5A2bAeq4uOJdScHA/w233-h320/roth2.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="233" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8Pe0KJsZ7wbdzE123imq0HLgkpeuBf1vd70d2F2iNx8No0Squ3JtypfPqvCKhAFGxqqV2fhUAdlh6b3RnGOE0qhWTUT52WbCLD2SZ3loR8nduisd5Jo_Lv-EZhS4phVWjEvyOuTDia7hnc31BIM-MOdmNgug-1G-hFnHmuCHxhIOFFaiOVIfl4LP5B4/s600/roth9.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lillian Roth" border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw8Pe0KJsZ7wbdzE123imq0HLgkpeuBf1vd70d2F2iNx8No0Squ3JtypfPqvCKhAFGxqqV2fhUAdlh6b3RnGOE0qhWTUT52WbCLD2SZ3loR8nduisd5Jo_Lv-EZhS4phVWjEvyOuTDia7hnc31BIM-MOdmNgug-1G-hFnHmuCHxhIOFFaiOVIfl4LP5B4/w267-h320/roth9.png" title="Lillian Roth" width="267" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Recommended Reading</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3SaZTlk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="974" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjofYY4lQ1lB4jKtEe2u-xXM6Mw7_c9K1Y3OW1s7CSSamqy1OWYLEV8VFH0V4xFT8Tpvs6ToH5vPvnsmsV1CwU6jebG4Y-xwlNtkbvDZGO7WPPMhDKRcfkocRuVnZq5UkIq0bCOoXC_IBc0gX1egdmMEggFtEnSV5hD9U2_b1e6MNWc-SXdwHn7sjWEDJo/s320/rothbook.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-53430879864269028212024-02-09T18:47:00.000-08:002024-02-09T18:49:58.938-08:00Dorothy Dearing ~ The Alcoholic Starlet<p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3uETCAOHmByQj2Tq2GBTMRGvhdCqu1qu6GerjJQZCJ5ZX_bUwlTrRcy-TGUZK9bmRlHjF96Qs37ZpUr9flJtEdlL7zB0WpE0ojVyaMMKoW4AQ2xw1gWGXtNWUl7h_625crKqzB2u9HtWKpK8iiwtAeeEtOTBB1JB2zzpig1xpnOBX9rosYRAyvMUZc8/s700/dearing2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dorothy Dearing" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS3uETCAOHmByQj2Tq2GBTMRGvhdCqu1qu6GerjJQZCJ5ZX_bUwlTrRcy-TGUZK9bmRlHjF96Qs37ZpUr9flJtEdlL7zB0WpE0ojVyaMMKoW4AQ2xw1gWGXtNWUl7h_625crKqzB2u9HtWKpK8iiwtAeeEtOTBB1JB2zzpig1xpnOBX9rosYRAyvMUZc8/w254-h320/dearing2.png" title="Dorothy Dearing" width="254" /></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Dorothy Dearing was a 1930s starlet who struggled with alcoholism</b></div></b><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Dorothy Jane dearing on April 17, 1913 in Parachute, Colorado. When she was a child her family moved to Alhambra, California. Sadly her father, Erdix Dearing, died in 1925. To help her mother pay the bills she started working as a dance instructor when she was a teenager. Dorothy moved to Los Angeles and made her film debut in the 1933 musical Dancing Lady. She also worked as a secretary and danced in Busby Berkeley's stage show. Then in 1935 she landed a contract at Fox. The pretty blonde appeared in dozens of films including Up The River, Alexander's Ragtime Band, Hotel For Women, and <a href="http://www.carolelandis.net/2012/10/moon-over-miami.html">Moon Over Miami</a>. Unfortunately almost all of her roles were uncredited bit parts. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVwTAADsVpBbpktjdDtVN6FUG2-JftwHyiY77FogSka5CojxTNADNzaimeH532-9ZRKF4iJvBL-pyR4d9rmjeX8Xj5WjQmTzL8XG3trqx0tUX5n0KzE3DjiF0CJgudLsJpyo_zodiY0em5K5CHnkign9zcVhaIUkHotJq0Y1L_l0BJ8laT4tVUUyuGwQ/s700/dearing1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dorothy Dearing" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="545" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHVwTAADsVpBbpktjdDtVN6FUG2-JftwHyiY77FogSka5CojxTNADNzaimeH532-9ZRKF4iJvBL-pyR4d9rmjeX8Xj5WjQmTzL8XG3trqx0tUX5n0KzE3DjiF0CJgudLsJpyo_zodiY0em5K5CHnkign9zcVhaIUkHotJq0Y1L_l0BJ8laT4tVUUyuGwQ/w249-h320/dearing1.png" title="Dorothy Dearing" width="249" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQx39CWgYc0tG9R7s_duZqBITek2glTsP9Am86gidUefIdWSosPlQb63e_alO5B2-mcmZKcBX17XNFHeyDUU4DtkvXx1dQjMuF0cPmDxRXldjCJBTNLLtgb0pKhIu4WECZemGAaiSk0m3DfdGmrWhAWxwCtx7svZOm0n7ZbsqYIssV-m0Cq6aFOZRqXao/s800/The_New_London_Evening_Day_Tue__Feb_28__1939_.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dorothy Dearing 1939" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQx39CWgYc0tG9R7s_duZqBITek2glTsP9Am86gidUefIdWSosPlQb63e_alO5B2-mcmZKcBX17XNFHeyDUU4DtkvXx1dQjMuF0cPmDxRXldjCJBTNLLtgb0pKhIu4WECZemGAaiSk0m3DfdGmrWhAWxwCtx7svZOm0n7ZbsqYIssV-m0Cq6aFOZRqXao/w216-h320/The_New_London_Evening_Day_Tue__Feb_28__1939_.png" title="Dorothy Dearing 1939" width="216" /></a><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;">During the 1930s she dated writer Curly Harris and was briefly married. In her spare time she enjoyed playing golf and tennis. After making the 1942 drama Thunder Birds: Soldiers Of The Air she decided to quit acting. Then she started her own business as an importer and exporter. On August 12, 1946 she married actor Roland Drew. Their son Damon was born in 1947. Dorothy appeared to have a happy home life but she continued to struggled with alcoholism. As she grew older her health began to deteriorate. Sadly on April 19, 1965 she died from "acute alcoholism" at the age of fifty-two She was buried at
Valhalla Memorial Park in North Hollywood, California.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Xa4fCzeGV_6aJJ_LgLif-3EYdWTb86DFTsEzyXnecJCuA82thKsXZRWEfQ45ntb9FbbYdvpzK1DGhvkOmIr5b3niJZC8KjDA8Oxc0BWDusMcNM5TPoqkurmNTD5DqLgPATJwzOc8VwjkomviZrqJUO4v_wvdVdfkNzgGuRqUxBydVrNR9i7eLtPI_dY/s700/dd1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Dorothy Dearing" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Xa4fCzeGV_6aJJ_LgLif-3EYdWTb86DFTsEzyXnecJCuA82thKsXZRWEfQ45ntb9FbbYdvpzK1DGhvkOmIr5b3niJZC8KjDA8Oxc0BWDusMcNM5TPoqkurmNTD5DqLgPATJwzOc8VwjkomviZrqJUO4v_wvdVdfkNzgGuRqUxBydVrNR9i7eLtPI_dY/w254-h320/dd1.png" title="Dorothy Dearing" width="254" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsr-iKAZfPnhCbhRFF8wstzcI7a56tl56Nc4-Poz1C1Y1eHckN2geYAFvCwhQVCfU5HUxfCcAHr_rvoPoT6tHpx15JKG7ajZfEZoBJGYSV86gPll1syCf2PgGhwJSNmyXPenyvT5z-LEXoft5xI6HCaiLQU-ZtzD0CaSY-xV_jEvaTRxwoNTinla-449g/s840/dearing3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Actress Dorothy Dearing" border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="840" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsr-iKAZfPnhCbhRFF8wstzcI7a56tl56Nc4-Poz1C1Y1eHckN2geYAFvCwhQVCfU5HUxfCcAHr_rvoPoT6tHpx15JKG7ajZfEZoBJGYSV86gPll1syCf2PgGhwJSNmyXPenyvT5z-LEXoft5xI6HCaiLQU-ZtzD0CaSY-xV_jEvaTRxwoNTinla-449g/w320-h305/dearing3.png" title="Actress Dorothy Dearing" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/dorothy-dearing/">Those obscure objects of desire</a> has an excellent page about Dorothy</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-53313448785203284752024-02-07T16:05:00.000-08:002024-03-15T19:32:06.999-07:00Gwen Lee ~ The Forgotten Flapper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhHwDoepnCCryJAH397JYV4fdhb1UfVMz4w9KdYuDc4Lvn6pFWRcxdGnbrA3lWCX45OiyUDHpOv_NzHkLHZLnBGIVqIWJjC_agFQYEApSq7w3KAKErWBlNhQdiBy94lGNdiNwdWg1uMrV2paizkuNecY8vu5SAHso2qRKFgUrVluQ5iO8HQ-XGIQ5Mv4/s700/glee1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gwen Lee" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQhHwDoepnCCryJAH397JYV4fdhb1UfVMz4w9KdYuDc4Lvn6pFWRcxdGnbrA3lWCX45OiyUDHpOv_NzHkLHZLnBGIVqIWJjC_agFQYEApSq7w3KAKErWBlNhQdiBy94lGNdiNwdWg1uMrV2paizkuNecY8vu5SAHso2qRKFgUrVluQ5iO8HQ-XGIQ5Mv4/w251-h320/glee1.png" title="Gwen Lee" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Gwen Lee was a popular flapper actress who disappeared from Hollywood</b></div><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Gwendolyn Lepinski on November 4, 1904 in Hastings, Nebraska. Her parents divorced when she was a child. Tragically her father, Frank Lepinski, committed suicide in 1911. After graduating from high school she and her mother, Etta Lepinski, moved to Chicago, Illinois. While working as a department store model she was discovered by director Monta Bell. He helped her get a contract with MGM. Gwen made her film debut in the 1925 drama Lady Of The Night starring <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/norma-shearer.html">Norma Shearer</a>. She had supporting roles in numerous silent films including The Actress, Untamed, A Lady Of Chance, and Show Girl. The beautiful blonde was often cast as a carefree flapper. In 1928 was chosen to be one of the Wampas Baby Stars along with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2018/07/lupe-velez-mexican-star.html">Lupe Velez</a> and <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/sally-eilers-silent-actress.html">Sally Eilers</a>. Gwen told reporters <i>"I am going to fight my way up in pictures. I waited too long for the chance to think of giving it up."</i> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZC6IXdnMXg0DxxCvhqQ-CmFkMswCc43i-RoDsUHpIGWQDM2B04fTZzohIdWue-NXbtYi0pLXBzNeta9vyU-mnpVTDFPec3Hd_asyJc154TiuwpD0N1tL0e5M4skdzdzo2hDvf8JD4Os3aDbzAFCdO6PWtXYfHBM5eVPAOsYSVToiC4xsplY_VCeLh1No/s700/glee3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gwen Lee" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZC6IXdnMXg0DxxCvhqQ-CmFkMswCc43i-RoDsUHpIGWQDM2B04fTZzohIdWue-NXbtYi0pLXBzNeta9vyU-mnpVTDFPec3Hd_asyJc154TiuwpD0N1tL0e5M4skdzdzo2hDvf8JD4Os3aDbzAFCdO6PWtXYfHBM5eVPAOsYSVToiC4xsplY_VCeLh1No/w238-h320/glee3.png" title="Gwen Lee" width="238" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN14-j15MnhKlZjg7gAn3_UNOfnbc6HhUUKGfCKir1PVEubX_ibgGIal0lsD7fNGJGzls9Aronp2iUgDQ3wniv2-qBZStxSGZ52VvA95FX9s-rswzp230aoRIPR8qs7zBtktlXp4C902YEeHCsyj8aNH-ftuXbxUqwnkKUGtz_rh5GonPLXXon-XpfBXw/s690/glee4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gwen Lee With Her Cat" border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN14-j15MnhKlZjg7gAn3_UNOfnbc6HhUUKGfCKir1PVEubX_ibgGIal0lsD7fNGJGzls9Aronp2iUgDQ3wniv2-qBZStxSGZ52VvA95FX9s-rswzp230aoRIPR8qs7zBtktlXp4C902YEeHCsyj8aNH-ftuXbxUqwnkKUGtz_rh5GonPLXXon-XpfBXw/w257-h320/glee4.png" title="Gwen Lee With Her Cat" width="257" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">She co-starred with and with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2019/07/was-joan-crawford-child-abuser.html">Joan Crawford</a> in Paid and with Greta Garbo in Inspiration. Unfortunately she began suffering from some serious mental health issues. Her mother sued her in 1932 claiming she was incompetent and in need of a guardian. The lawsuit was eventually dropped. By the mid-1930s her career was in trouble. Gwen played bit parts in the films A Night At The Opera, Double Wedding, and Libeled Lady. Her final movie role was in the 1938 crime drama Paroled From The Big House. She cared for her mother who had been diagnosed with dementia until her death in 1941. On May 4, 1943 she married George Mence Jr, a retail manager. Gwen spent the rest of her life out of the spotlight. Unfortunately I have not been able to find any information about when she died.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSUboVGPgACXl5EpJ5dyhLcvcqw6-BrK3x63qMD5TP_-9Uwy9Pv9tKfMmQaQ5k97Ahx9czgHWH3b6waMMoOevSkgUw-X0BzzkrwfqvCzxQFgg-w3bqoJ-tpL5kr7EpLMaMtLczHyr_E8WXbcuFG_hrfkceAiTv1aGUbCCVi2rRhb8lxsQWBopXPv9js0/s700/glee2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gwen Lee" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWSUboVGPgACXl5EpJ5dyhLcvcqw6-BrK3x63qMD5TP_-9Uwy9Pv9tKfMmQaQ5k97Ahx9czgHWH3b6waMMoOevSkgUw-X0BzzkrwfqvCzxQFgg-w3bqoJ-tpL5kr7EpLMaMtLczHyr_E8WXbcuFG_hrfkceAiTv1aGUbCCVi2rRhb8lxsQWBopXPv9js0/w251-h320/glee2.png" title="Gwen Lee" width="251" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpv4f36NeVpNYBFzKkNDqSzvs6uv7eqdvq_-Bw4n29gMJrhJZM07zoKRT9lsuicHkAtPVjjgSTGWX8tvYMDAaMGTnT1GnnKnDDk03h9m8DwgNK3nVr9DoNqpdg-Lgrm34bmwipPX_Kcw12cfLeUFnVvEcOTDZrksHGZ3b4BEQhX3YwbhWkORZuy8U0-0/s675/glee5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Gwen Lee Posing Semi-Nude" border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpv4f36NeVpNYBFzKkNDqSzvs6uv7eqdvq_-Bw4n29gMJrhJZM07zoKRT9lsuicHkAtPVjjgSTGWX8tvYMDAaMGTnT1GnnKnDDk03h9m8DwgNK3nVr9DoNqpdg-Lgrm34bmwipPX_Kcw12cfLeUFnVvEcOTDZrksHGZ3b4BEQhX3YwbhWkORZuy8U0-0/w237-h320/glee5.png" title="Gwen Lee Posing Semi-Nude" width="237" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-1272668052185867382024-02-07T14:26:00.000-08:002024-02-07T14:26:41.967-08:00Miriam Crosby ~ The Retired Dancer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJtu4va9F3M93U-o5j073owQ175hpn9MJXn72YtgH9ZKCO1WXjJwiamJ_YX3bytJWjnJJsukFCa29cYVxXC5S-o3KqT3fVVk-hYqPJREql42IJTqU8pSMkf31fL3QnnZG1Pn5Wyr4YU-gSB8Yv8gDl1A4KTDpu5X3QKovotSGuPT2etaL3lGOJcwpsIk/s700/miriam12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miriam Crosby Nude" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsJtu4va9F3M93U-o5j073owQ175hpn9MJXn72YtgH9ZKCO1WXjJwiamJ_YX3bytJWjnJJsukFCa29cYVxXC5S-o3KqT3fVVk-hYqPJREql42IJTqU8pSMkf31fL3QnnZG1Pn5Wyr4YU-gSB8Yv8gDl1A4KTDpu5X3QKovotSGuPT2etaL3lGOJcwpsIk/w229-h320/miriam12.png" title="Miriam Crosby Nude" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Miriam Crosby was a dancer who appeared on Broadway in the 1920s</b></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Miriam Miller on December 20, 1906 in Ironton, Ohio. Her grandfather was Col. James J. Miller, a successful publisher. When she was a child her family moved to New York City and she started taking dance lessons. At the age of fourteen she made her Broadway debut dancing in the musical Good Morning Dearie. In 1925 she was chosen to be <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2024/01/marilynmiller.html">Marilyn Miller's</a> understudy in the musical Sunny. Then she appeared in the musicals Hit The Deck and Lovely Lady. During this time she also posed semi-nude for photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. Miriam married Roland Tevlin in March of 1926. They split up two years later.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3w0J5lep3dBG8YullkST9KAWYj12vNS9DMfx_jp8Ozt7TCpq_0cRyEMejMirUx23bX66R7BeEvtQBGbfNWN0lfctNsFUnRX4cJeLJ-bP0Ao2EBLHAgqhmix9C3jp452PkuoK32huRP5L1E1m1K_Z5eIubQ4u7MJz7snrbZr4RXWk_Wi0lnHJOR1O6s8M/s700/miriam11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miriam Crosby" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3w0J5lep3dBG8YullkST9KAWYj12vNS9DMfx_jp8Ozt7TCpq_0cRyEMejMirUx23bX66R7BeEvtQBGbfNWN0lfctNsFUnRX4cJeLJ-bP0Ao2EBLHAgqhmix9C3jp452PkuoK32huRP5L1E1m1K_Z5eIubQ4u7MJz7snrbZr4RXWk_Wi0lnHJOR1O6s8M/w254-h320/miriam11.png" title="Miriam Crosby" width="254" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflWiJo6nhdTO_Zv63iiXlhDK_qINqi-rFAI2H72-I6wfymQ33gmaqvuftdIb_0ourYf7tQ_qJlChljajbz69sIu1BhMPxourYP0rj_nayNWeT7wnLe2jhRr4zYVUoIlA9hS9Sl-0Q39ahkoNeSowwrCJLXdeUUqUOvkD4ljPZ-bkI-Isb40GMumzpP40/s725/miriam1929.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miriam Crosby" border="0" data-original-height="725" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiflWiJo6nhdTO_Zv63iiXlhDK_qINqi-rFAI2H72-I6wfymQ33gmaqvuftdIb_0ourYf7tQ_qJlChljajbz69sIu1BhMPxourYP0rj_nayNWeT7wnLe2jhRr4zYVUoIlA9hS9Sl-0Q39ahkoNeSowwrCJLXdeUUqUOvkD4ljPZ-bkI-Isb40GMumzpP40/w221-h320/miriam1929.png" title="Miriam Crosby" width="221" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was cast in the Marx Brothers film Animal Crackers but quit when she became engaged to Otis Angier, a businessman. Miriam and Otis and were married on April 30. 1930. The couple had two children - Edward Herbert and Miriam Ann. They lived in Massachusetts before moving to Clearwater, Florida in 1948. She told a reporter <i>"I have a contented full-time career being Mrs. Angier"</i>. Sadly her husband passed away in 1976. A few years later she married Andrew Scharnagl, a plumbing company executive. He died in 1983 making her a widow for the second time. Miriam continued to live in Florida. On March 27, 1989 <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263604407/miriam-scharnagl">she died at the age of eighty-two</a>.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymm0PpwwEvve144CtX0GvO8zeymNQ0-diUiXitYM4ez4HSnFP76N9rlM-G3MXY0yTKbdYR1lQYLkpvVVgRygJh8cQy2rrCQHMNkt6gHJ_WYbAoPHxcdVQfcC7vHi14HC5GC76i9shqT1fOAJOf_TDEcxBq074q4ORogfCNxEt68IO-JvwnnatCPyjmCw/s790/miriam1951.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Miriam Crosby" border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjymm0PpwwEvve144CtX0GvO8zeymNQ0-diUiXitYM4ez4HSnFP76N9rlM-G3MXY0yTKbdYR1lQYLkpvVVgRygJh8cQy2rrCQHMNkt6gHJ_WYbAoPHxcdVQfcC7vHi14HC5GC76i9shqT1fOAJOf_TDEcxBq074q4ORogfCNxEt68IO-JvwnnatCPyjmCw/w203-h320/miriam1951.png" title="Miriam Crosby" width="203" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-46023831634693986442024-02-06T16:44:00.000-08:002024-02-06T16:44:08.976-08:00Theda Bara ~ Hollywood's First Vamp<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcLPa1l8nRwTCQF7Q5MwUIBmqlrW0MUlUc9E7SOBOFGmUnrYZMtmIimQAlQluRyJZFbf249cE6-Rcr_nSjShMPANp15PrdDWftO8pTUBPsqqKcNBB3cUaWQoX51l5n74-1Ky_DL4CZx9AWqsFoSeuibSE_ZQIQ0AyUSIVYn1uqirfTy3mtJ0hTEYk7To/s900/theda1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Theda Bara" border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="718" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcLPa1l8nRwTCQF7Q5MwUIBmqlrW0MUlUc9E7SOBOFGmUnrYZMtmIimQAlQluRyJZFbf249cE6-Rcr_nSjShMPANp15PrdDWftO8pTUBPsqqKcNBB3cUaWQoX51l5n74-1Ky_DL4CZx9AWqsFoSeuibSE_ZQIQ0AyUSIVYn1uqirfTy3mtJ0hTEYk7To/w255-h320/theda1.jpg" title="Theda Bara" width="255" /></a><span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Theda Bara was a silent film actress who became famous playing exotic vamps<span><a name='more'></a></span><span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She was born Theodosia Burr Goodman on July 29, 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father, Bernard Goodman, was a successful Jewish tailor from Poland. After graduating from high school she enrolled at the University of Cincinnati. When she was twenty-three she moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Theda appeared on Broadway in The Devil and went on tour with a theater troupe. She made her film debut as an extra in the 1914 silent The Stain. Then she was signed by Fox and given the leading role in A Fool There Was. In 1917 she starred in the historical drama Cleopatra. It was a huge hit and made her one of Hollywood's most popular stars. The dark haired beauty made a string of successful films including The Rose Of Blood, Madame Du Barry, Salome, and The She-Devil. Theda was always cast as a vamp and she became known for wearing very revealing costumes. To make her seem more exotic Fox falsely claimed that she she was Egyptian and had spent her early years living the Sahara Desert.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2GTs698jZHVMcsedr8lr5vQ65WHpZHOAbzesUYlhpN4cajtU-8E4XTJUjbUXqDfS2Je6NLy7pNVa_1yNZhL4Af5h9ZAiHOf-IZIEVQYfjRlCYT7SgOGgekAoEbQx7WBQu2iquh-pzVebAtrXDpqvl8SgaEg5BFySCFHYQZVCSq5WKiCJ5MFzPB2x2Kc/s700/theda5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Theda Bara" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf2GTs698jZHVMcsedr8lr5vQ65WHpZHOAbzesUYlhpN4cajtU-8E4XTJUjbUXqDfS2Je6NLy7pNVa_1yNZhL4Af5h9ZAiHOf-IZIEVQYfjRlCYT7SgOGgekAoEbQx7WBQu2iquh-pzVebAtrXDpqvl8SgaEg5BFySCFHYQZVCSq5WKiCJ5MFzPB2x2Kc/w261-h320/theda5.png" title="Theda Bara" width="261" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms7wbjACuzlEaUP9sgKvjndCI5WrH5fPn0AcyQa-9mPGEo52KvSiSdhKef80nD_5aUyEB3hxoXUhisUkvNpELWkUf6lPhsqxcZyAs3lGUV6Xp_APrEvrmkbr8khyphenhyphenjUMXOCHaTH9waqCopevLGOVgtwbM2nOKRDgIypB4WfJypjklhFWk7c7fVthNjJqA/s700/theda4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Theda Bara" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="550" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms7wbjACuzlEaUP9sgKvjndCI5WrH5fPn0AcyQa-9mPGEo52KvSiSdhKef80nD_5aUyEB3hxoXUhisUkvNpELWkUf6lPhsqxcZyAs3lGUV6Xp_APrEvrmkbr8khyphenhyphenjUMXOCHaTH9waqCopevLGOVgtwbM2nOKRDgIypB4WfJypjklhFWk7c7fVthNjJqA/w251-h320/theda4.png" title="Theda Bara" width="251" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">At the peak of her fame she was earning $4,000 a week and received hundreds of marriage proposals from fans. She started having an affair with Charles Brabin who had directed her in La Belle Russe and While New York Sleeps. Charles divorced his wife so he could be with her. By 1919 she was tired of playing vamps and walked out on her Fox contract. Then she starred on Broadway in The Blue Flame. Unfortunately the show got terrible reviews. On July 2, 1921 she married Charles. He wanted her to quit acting and it was rumored he cheated on her. Theda returned to the screen in 1925 to star in the silent drama The Unchastened Woman. After making the 1926 Hal Roach comedy Madame Mystery she decided to retire. During the 1930s she appeared on several radio shows. Sadly in late 1954 she was diagnosed with abdominal cancer. On April 7, 1955 she died at the age of sixty-nine. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrjLsBeM83kMMBkosSVFDAbTbVCgM_9ELFxBsaMv22944ulX0iL94_I8fnHTCxwLzP1Lb4jUGdPUZ5AQd-wZ9Uh3V_Qw-CJOxJYJo0nd367P8E-4V-ayCrNqwbH4opAemFGFpA1uH_AgNMui0jyBJz-TH3MPrtBVJYAUAG4JYTpWGhN1-c03Re7PKOn0/s700/theda11.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Theda Bara" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrjLsBeM83kMMBkosSVFDAbTbVCgM_9ELFxBsaMv22944ulX0iL94_I8fnHTCxwLzP1Lb4jUGdPUZ5AQd-wZ9Uh3V_Qw-CJOxJYJo0nd367P8E-4V-ayCrNqwbH4opAemFGFpA1uH_AgNMui0jyBJz-TH3MPrtBVJYAUAG4JYTpWGhN1-c03Re7PKOn0/w229-h320/theda11.png" title="Theda Bara" width="229" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYqlUqf0nzyDBc88uzxIWH41HvfMPGeGcK3Yvmn303ZbjtantFwTe1k22x3SfXVoWI6CHIUTY9_cBv67cOAN8qy83UQqodx5alkwiM6oWyy2RcJ9tYh-Pi-P4Yg46AVQox8kK7YDPwkZ6z6i2RYf_wS0kOfE8bUhGItN1Z56HP3-iNf2qUduA4ev2p0gQ/s700/theda2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Theda Bara" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="555" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYqlUqf0nzyDBc88uzxIWH41HvfMPGeGcK3Yvmn303ZbjtantFwTe1k22x3SfXVoWI6CHIUTY9_cBv67cOAN8qy83UQqodx5alkwiM6oWyy2RcJ9tYh-Pi-P4Yg46AVQox8kK7YDPwkZ6z6i2RYf_wS0kOfE8bUhGItN1Z56HP3-iNf2qUduA4ev2p0gQ/w254-h320/theda2.png" title="Theda Bara" width="254" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-82583989343684136132024-01-26T04:37:00.000-08:002024-01-26T06:23:09.787-08:00Marilyn Miller ~ The Tragic Broadway Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaXkUBeOjID0-A5e5dedJUGub2lz1cq-armnSnMT3dQupmLY6MfzdV1PXP0PClO1tkUv0mIgFksKlabC5fVmCSCjs0BeWMj-R0URjaGdmnuDzZGcRwbdf_eua_XuVzFUZZ7JjiuuS7y8iXUEfaFSp5YUjRNzuMjkQnVdyUXI_MNqEj7qxo5GY2ecVZ_U/s700/miller1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="700" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioaXkUBeOjID0-A5e5dedJUGub2lz1cq-armnSnMT3dQupmLY6MfzdV1PXP0PClO1tkUv0mIgFksKlabC5fVmCSCjs0BeWMj-R0URjaGdmnuDzZGcRwbdf_eua_XuVzFUZZ7JjiuuS7y8iXUEfaFSp5YUjRNzuMjkQnVdyUXI_MNqEj7qxo5GY2ecVZ_U/w320-h293/miller1.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Marilyn Miller was a Broadway actress and Ziegfeld Follies star who died tragically young<span><a name='more'></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">She was born Mary Ellen Reynolds on September 1, 1898 in Evansville, Indiana. Her parents divorced when she a child. Marilyn began performing in vaudeville with her family when she was just four years old. In 1914 she was discovered by producer Lee Shubert who cast her in The Passing Show on Broadway. Then the petite blonde became a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies. It was rumored that she had an affair with producer Flo Ziegfeld. She married Frank Carter, an acrobatic dancer, in 1919. Sadly he was killed in a car accident the following year. Marilyn starred in Ziegfeld's hit Broadway musical Sally. Her performance won raves reviews and she became known for singing "Look For The Silver Lining". On July 30, 1922 she married actor Jack Pickford, the brother of <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2016/12/mary-pickford.html">Mary Pickford</a>. He was an alcoholic and cheated on her with actress Clara Kimball Young. They divorced in 1927. Her success on the stage continued with starring roles in the musicals Sunny and Rosalie. By 1928 she was the highest paid woman on Broadway earning more than $3,000 a week.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbo4wLVOrtFasyHvD2YN7Id8td-Cn7VaP4wtKGRE7ZVU4shBCQh4CZ5SX2XCgm3eZucju3CTg0nyEdAc9wEkSwSxvBbCRi0oYx1cqOVnN6hnDHnUzYkWb4FUR9w6bH8Lo0dx_26FgECg2-HJACFvv6bHmSM4VpvO5x2DhdYSWQznSGy1UVwsOepfIyM4Q/s700/miller3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbo4wLVOrtFasyHvD2YN7Id8td-Cn7VaP4wtKGRE7ZVU4shBCQh4CZ5SX2XCgm3eZucju3CTg0nyEdAc9wEkSwSxvBbCRi0oYx1cqOVnN6hnDHnUzYkWb4FUR9w6bH8Lo0dx_26FgECg2-HJACFvv6bHmSM4VpvO5x2DhdYSWQznSGy1UVwsOepfIyM4Q/w229-h320/miller3.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="229" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOd00qsrvhkkBw8MRGYX2Jc4QmW7-SfITjCMfgLu1GC-6vHwyIzzBB9s-wjJgiGbnooRqlNji4JY-Do5aMextv6lkpDRZK6FbVNCuUKqMIFD-U__DFFKCCBED9lH2a5Ph2x0KL8hRbynXlRxptqtAwHFBQXQ15bHo8McTo4GBPcSjPqyDHZWAre8Ni2MQ/s700/miller4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOd00qsrvhkkBw8MRGYX2Jc4QmW7-SfITjCMfgLu1GC-6vHwyIzzBB9s-wjJgiGbnooRqlNji4JY-Do5aMextv6lkpDRZK6FbVNCuUKqMIFD-U__DFFKCCBED9lH2a5Ph2x0KL8hRbynXlRxptqtAwHFBQXQ15bHo8McTo4GBPcSjPqyDHZWAre8Ni2MQ/w247-h320/miller4.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="247" /></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Unfortunately she suffered from recurring sinus infections and developed a drinking problem. She dated actor Ben Lyon and was engaged to Don Alvarado. Her third marriage, to dancer Jack Donahue, lasted only a few months. In 1929 she made her film debut in the musical Sally. Then she appeared in the films Sunny and Her Majesty Love. Marilyn returned to broadway in 1933 to star in As Thousands Cheer. She told reporters <i>"It may sound strange, but I never want to grow old. I never want to see the day when I cannot sing and dance as I can now"</i>. On September 1, 1934 she married Chet O'Brien, a dancer who was ten years younger than her. Their marriage was unhappy and she suffered a miscarriage. Marilyn had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized in March of 1936. A few weeks later she she developed a serious sinus infection and was given insulin injections. Tragically on April 7, 1936 she died at the young age of thirty-seven. She was buried at with her first husband at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUK397V8NRq_HI6GO0FCwtvLQ_i20LBgrIcmAiEBwbSn6BiUZG_deFkv2CGrm6wZaIU3dhzogo0roslcDVaOUkyu7-RMhL0AtvvVrobCkoPo252bpv7sB9Y1rQCI3T-M0Lj_KPNnfRcBp_nlMDpQhzAe2HKnsvzFlCACAJWPJCjvv0mMkwjZAEgqHswY/s700/pearls.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSUK397V8NRq_HI6GO0FCwtvLQ_i20LBgrIcmAiEBwbSn6BiUZG_deFkv2CGrm6wZaIU3dhzogo0roslcDVaOUkyu7-RMhL0AtvvVrobCkoPo252bpv7sB9Y1rQCI3T-M0Lj_KPNnfRcBp_nlMDpQhzAe2HKnsvzFlCACAJWPJCjvv0mMkwjZAEgqHswY/w261-h320/pearls.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="261" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIQBjLUXoidzQrUXgnNQjqJtaZgjaD5QnI6je2Ckd_BSdESxdcvvLJtsjPWNawBCi0ZZfcBPcbuBIlWM_D8uSELOyYpSVw25nnCEcpJeJ1rhAvMWBtOC14zMO39NVmfPja1XWJOuwLGhIFQC8Kz7Cou1edJvX4tx-NiyEg8lBrIiGi6iFA6e_uO_hb9k/s700/miller2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIQBjLUXoidzQrUXgnNQjqJtaZgjaD5QnI6je2Ckd_BSdESxdcvvLJtsjPWNawBCi0ZZfcBPcbuBIlWM_D8uSELOyYpSVw25nnCEcpJeJ1rhAvMWBtOC14zMO39NVmfPja1XWJOuwLGhIFQC8Kz7Cou1edJvX4tx-NiyEg8lBrIiGi6iFA6e_uO_hb9k/w238-h320/miller2.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="238" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4A1AoCY-2SrDDG2dhV1640nE0hCc0h3xWFRF_W0Xck-cyGCBLOZQp5LpPeIMrXV66wbnJK7glzgjRGLNlMuek2Q945RvzW5rIBjVXEzAffXzA8FNj68sdwx4mEo44pPinPVYdXJ7boexM1CrARLfnMVhsC7olE55HwkvlZz0byqEDD8DBQULNe9rU7lo/s700/miller5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Marilyn Miller" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4A1AoCY-2SrDDG2dhV1640nE0hCc0h3xWFRF_W0Xck-cyGCBLOZQp5LpPeIMrXV66wbnJK7glzgjRGLNlMuek2Q945RvzW5rIBjVXEzAffXzA8FNj68sdwx4mEo44pPinPVYdXJ7boexM1CrARLfnMVhsC7olE55HwkvlZz0byqEDD8DBQULNe9rU7lo/w229-h320/miller5.png" title="Marilyn Miller" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Recommended Reading</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42c4cl2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXGG3EvsW8L6bf2vMQdAjI5fQgfRhHbDLPB_1LlgIHU-xhyphenhyphenPvvPjfY_ER15NZm_shkC2ghjq5CqzJHnxU6eageJAfSVFqXCI4NIMq7Y5KI2aTWMVcEjKg0fwIXMiczwIXmg78wt8D2Zt_JqOgr-UfPcmpZSQPIwzqLKKvDkHgVavPkSJWPafbAfUdKIPU/s320/millerbook.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-78929721460612609532024-01-23T08:53:00.000-08:002024-01-23T08:53:30.460-08:00Lois January ~ The B-Movie Star<p style="text-align: center;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3tJLGTUGhhEA5nHHxXFaQkWXLphl2KX6ncxGPROV2Zhx5S0jR8sb0Nq1QkK-s4SO17Wf9zm4ZYPnxmZrUtKsn9tVikHLk9tBZAPPtAnj-V8kRRT3ozL2rmMo0rHmQm8p7Cgvx9N4rA9pH-Tued7O0d7XhRENfUIlF6AXD8Mq8EgweZ_YkkzVL44sk44/s700/lois4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lois January" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3tJLGTUGhhEA5nHHxXFaQkWXLphl2KX6ncxGPROV2Zhx5S0jR8sb0Nq1QkK-s4SO17Wf9zm4ZYPnxmZrUtKsn9tVikHLk9tBZAPPtAnj-V8kRRT3ozL2rmMo0rHmQm8p7Cgvx9N4rA9pH-Tued7O0d7XhRENfUIlF6AXD8Mq8EgweZ_YkkzVL44sk44/w229-h320/lois4.png" title="Lois January" width="229" /></a><b> </b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b><br /></b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><b>Lois January was a 1930s B-movie actress who had a bit part in The Wizard Of Oz</b></b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Lois Laura January on October 5, 1912 in McAllen, Texas. When she was a child her family moved to Los Angeles, California. Lois attended the Marlborough School for girls and studied dance at the Denishawn school. Her ambitious mother pushed her to go into show business. After high school she toured the country with a dance troupe. She made her film debut in the 1932 short film Too Many Women. While appearing in a play at the Pasadena Playhouse she was discovered by a talent agent. Lois was offered a contract at Universal for $200 a week. The lovely redhead appeared in many low budget films including Let's Talk It Over, Splendor, and The Pace That Kiss. She married Abraham Meyer, a studio music supervisor, on April 17, 1937. Lois co-starred with Johnny Mack Brown in the westerns The Rogue Of The Range and Bar-Z Bad Men.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGhLDSFM7jYx0zWMvkzl7SvmnWYxAW-d7i9cZMoT11Klb5H2iUFv3_GSpVXzQ-Db_9WQsAM6yGAhBqjpe-b09ntVWnrkP4oOlYIVn5rlzsq7A2FnZIOJh5VRmQ18CofQRaPlWgakg38NWIuvGp1gcV4SllZex7qElMZXYmm_R8wz6iMPv3REG-_HPBRo/s700/lois1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lois January" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="560" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGhLDSFM7jYx0zWMvkzl7SvmnWYxAW-d7i9cZMoT11Klb5H2iUFv3_GSpVXzQ-Db_9WQsAM6yGAhBqjpe-b09ntVWnrkP4oOlYIVn5rlzsq7A2FnZIOJh5VRmQ18CofQRaPlWgakg38NWIuvGp1gcV4SllZex7qElMZXYmm_R8wz6iMPv3REG-_HPBRo/w256-h320/lois1.png" title="Lois January" width="256" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_74JPTpFLre_GWZfTjkF5RSUzLDQegGCHrR-oCuKP1I2g6YzptnjvmyWQCOkGQnAqHheYEwuBAhhBdwzlOVuDwLV8YBir37tjTajnKzxyn0XL0glaGf9hGumiMiiENtNXNaNpbH-_U_ApvKvdnNtZwq20bDp49BZ6aH0arzFPMFrrrBSvOybcYD-skCg/s700/lois2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lois January" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_74JPTpFLre_GWZfTjkF5RSUzLDQegGCHrR-oCuKP1I2g6YzptnjvmyWQCOkGQnAqHheYEwuBAhhBdwzlOVuDwLV8YBir37tjTajnKzxyn0XL0glaGf9hGumiMiiENtNXNaNpbH-_U_ApvKvdnNtZwq20bDp49BZ6aH0arzFPMFrrrBSvOybcYD-skCg/w258-h320/lois2.png" title="Lois January" width="258" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In 1939 she appeared as a manicurist in The Wizard Of Oz with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/judy-garland.html">Judy Garland</a>. That same year she starred on Broadway in the musical Yokel Boy. Her husband Abraham sued her for divorce in 1940 claiming she had deserted him. By this time her movie career had stalled. She moved to New York City where she worked on the radio and sang in nightclubs. Lois married William Gernannt, a business manager, in 1941. The couple had a daughter but this marriage also ended in divorce. She continued to act making guest appearances on television shows like My Three Sons and Barnaby Jones. Her final role was in the 1987 TV movie Double Agent. On August 7, 2006 she died from Alzheimer's disease at the age of ninety-three. Lois was cremated and her ashes were scattered over the Pacific Ocean.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lHV8vbFyLX9QPbG99jjziqqp8etjEvx2P2xgRk27W04IWSPseh9Ix4vCSsTbOAy4TB66gSmEC5vO4MPinjKjJU_ufHV8YbRxQbcJoaPpfwMrkWBCXtZqvgOXrnYlfrxdAZPtiKmG1yI2bxTRNspXOR2OSSvKoMttTuVxCeqe4GmthCdl4rWFplDA47A/s700/lois5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lois January" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3lHV8vbFyLX9QPbG99jjziqqp8etjEvx2P2xgRk27W04IWSPseh9Ix4vCSsTbOAy4TB66gSmEC5vO4MPinjKjJU_ufHV8YbRxQbcJoaPpfwMrkWBCXtZqvgOXrnYlfrxdAZPtiKmG1yI2bxTRNspXOR2OSSvKoMttTuVxCeqe4GmthCdl4rWFplDA47A/w242-h320/lois5.png" title="Lois January" width="242" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGJgjIfqeD9gllbXJQYd5SHShwxliMadS-Jyl75mCpmNfOwLjl0ifPbQ_sHagcF-yIml6SawY6ye5KoQ1HGkC9ARNocmz1VB_JZ70ZTZzX-Y4YvtC7WGjhXXGfkBbNeEGE5rHGuaY-POv_36S8vURI4BuCA_zqoeClhYVshGS7WfppPaKxUc_Wl0l8k0/s700/loisj.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lois January Magazine Cover" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMGJgjIfqeD9gllbXJQYd5SHShwxliMadS-Jyl75mCpmNfOwLjl0ifPbQ_sHagcF-yIml6SawY6ye5KoQ1HGkC9ARNocmz1VB_JZ70ZTZzX-Y4YvtC7WGjhXXGfkBbNeEGE5rHGuaY-POv_36S8vURI4BuCA_zqoeClhYVshGS7WfppPaKxUc_Wl0l8k0/w247-h320/loisj.png" title="Lois January Magazine Cover" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-73426271765820073882024-01-21T06:51:00.000-08:002024-01-21T06:51:03.683-08:00Sheree Winton & Her Tragic Suicide<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Sheree Winton" border="0" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEhXlXwhyphenhyphen-2ZG19Ua15av4C0qW7kG3fUeW9BXUj2b1ydGpnd7wvYmbZmk79tOYIG0n48-6UVit5RwM8GlGKHcwRfzLWeIhTpO3zFR_Q4vWmBb9MeUuzKMVNVmz2NgsTD2bThGAtmRjo3hAz8fy0FU5aPlqShHMhHQOec1WRLVynODPgl0uaz3E0OLPpe8/w243-h320/sheree2.png" title="Sheree Winton" width="243" /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Sheree Winton was a beautiful British starlet who tragically committed suicide</b><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"> She was born Shirley June Patrick on November 4, 1935 in Sheffield, England. When she was a child her parents divorced. At the age of eighteen she married Gary Winton, a furniture salesman thirty years older than her. The couple had a son named Dale in 1955. Sheree made her film debut in the 1957 British drama Miracle In Soho. Then she had small roles in Follow A Star, Naked Fury, and Dentist In The Chair. The shapely blonde was called "The English <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2018/03/jayne-mansfield-mariska-hargitay.html">Jayne Mansfield</a>". She appeared on numerous British television shows including Espionage and The Newcomers. Unfortunately she suffered from severe depression and became addicted to barbiturates. Her marriage to Gary ended in 1966 after she had an affair with another man.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcpZqJyJJ3k5vm3K-3Qwb63QLQdq-bHJQU2-1bcxXBR0S3xxGpGECW6iQJksRxdb3BglgmUPXGEq_dCWr-HBwXuGGzrdvxc1WpFRv-KAukYOR9YfyXmtmCsbL3O5m69iB1yudpu5PBDJzl0__Of54UtdhIK1teMOb5XNCdApuXne5ly1PHkI4lpIy_X8/s700/sheree1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sheree Winton" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbcpZqJyJJ3k5vm3K-3Qwb63QLQdq-bHJQU2-1bcxXBR0S3xxGpGECW6iQJksRxdb3BglgmUPXGEq_dCWr-HBwXuGGzrdvxc1WpFRv-KAukYOR9YfyXmtmCsbL3O5m69iB1yudpu5PBDJzl0__Of54UtdhIK1teMOb5XNCdApuXne5ly1PHkI4lpIy_X8/w245-h320/sheree1.png" title="Sheree Winton" width="245" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRaz9iqzl7Bt9xrhoXFJbaK8DCb50nox4sbbLAXkyFtQ6M8DVAUECIcCZ8_2HEUtU6V1n9WyRmOuSHC4PZWEF35_6Twl0VHkdmw3Ii4CBEOmDPLs-6PdKEKOVCTrJBFDlnsv8u_bY-RGqKoF8-rcdn_6EJX_ArcTyogRXcNDckgIUpcEZJ4YdU2KUEgY/s700/shereew2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Sheree Winton" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="510" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBRaz9iqzl7Bt9xrhoXFJbaK8DCb50nox4sbbLAXkyFtQ6M8DVAUECIcCZ8_2HEUtU6V1n9WyRmOuSHC4PZWEF35_6Twl0VHkdmw3Ii4CBEOmDPLs-6PdKEKOVCTrJBFDlnsv8u_bY-RGqKoF8-rcdn_6EJX_ArcTyogRXcNDckgIUpcEZJ4YdU2KUEgY/w233-h320/shereew2.png" title="Sheree Winton" width="233" /></a><br /></div></div><p style="text-align: center;">By the late 1960s her career had stalled and she decided to quit acting. Sheree's final role was in the 1970 short film Rhubarb. She continued to struggle with addiction and made several suicide attempts. In early 1976 she went to a clinic to get treatment but she relapsed soon after. Tragically on May 29, 1976 she committed suicide at the age of forty. A friend found her body in her bedroom with a plastic bag tied around her head. Sheree left a note that said she "was sorry". She was cremated and her ashes were buried at
Golders Green Crematorium in
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<a name='more'></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Delphine Walsh was a twenty-one year old dancer with a bright future ahead of her. She was beautiful, talented, and had recently discovered she was pregnant. It was 1929 and abortion was illegal in the United States. As a single woman Delphine’s only choice was to have a dangerous, back-alley abortion. Six days after the botched procedure she tragically died. Her story is a warning of what can happen when women don’t have access to safe abortions.<br />
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She was born Delphine Dockerty on June 19, 1907 in Bisbee, Arizona. Delphine's family was very poor and she had six siblings. Her parents, Thomas and Mary, had immigrated from England and later changed their last name to Dougherty. Thomas found work as a miner but he also struggled with alcoholism. At a very young age Delphine discovered she had a talent for dancing. When she was six her parents allowed J.J. and Beulah Mae Walsh adopt her. The couple believed they could make Delphine and their own daughter <a href="https://classichollywoodactresses.blogspot.com/2020/01/jessie-may-walsh-1920s-dancer.html">Jessie Maye Walsh</a> famous. They moved to Hollywood and the girls started taking ballet lessons at the Payne Dancing Academy. Delphine and Jessie Maye joined the Raymond Teal dance company and performed at events all over the country. After J.J. Walsh died in 1919 the two girls became the family breadwinners. At the age of fifteen Delphine was working as a chorus girl and became a featured dancer at the Ship Cafe in Venice Beach. Then she was hired to be in Fanchon & Marco’s troupe of dancers. They called her “The Girl With The Perfect Figure”. She had a lovely singing voice and appeared on several radio shows.</div><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delphine at age 10 Delphine in 1929</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOIQ5ygXYXpRmleR8yaCaDJWdTQUtQD4D0KNRcYcXE6iTeZqikEzMlmsuyMfT6jLalVDvWlhTunlI8AXMdOM6dfKWzeWMgLdXsw0qzwcHfauQkZ9mBdzIKHlypTmGMMrjrFmNtBcb6TGWF1VblT8u9_jCXVGa1H6-g-nzW7-v_mg616qOQ6NnZh9xk6E/s650/marco1929.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img alt="Delphine Walsh With The Fanchon & Marco Dancers" border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimOIQ5ygXYXpRmleR8yaCaDJWdTQUtQD4D0KNRcYcXE6iTeZqikEzMlmsuyMfT6jLalVDvWlhTunlI8AXMdOM6dfKWzeWMgLdXsw0qzwcHfauQkZ9mBdzIKHlypTmGMMrjrFmNtBcb6TGWF1VblT8u9_jCXVGa1H6-g-nzW7-v_mg616qOQ6NnZh9xk6E/w246-h320/marco1929.png" title="Delphine Walsh With The Fanchon & Marco Dancers" width="246" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delphine (center) with the Fanchon & Marco Dancers</span></div></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div>In late 1928 she went on a fourteen week vaudeville tour with Fanchon & Marco's Hollywood Scandals show. During the tour she roomed with Mildred Harris, the ex-wife of Charlie Chaplin. She and Mildred went to San Francisco in January of 1929 where they were both bridesmaids at Jessie May Walsh's wedding. Delphine had started dating a married theater director named Mickey Moran. The in the Spring of 1929 she discovered she was pregnant. When she told Mickey he sent her an envelope filled with cash. Delphine told friends she was terrified her adopted mother would find out about the pregnancy. With few options available she decided to have an illegal abortion. On April 27 her friend Lucille King drove her to the office of Dr. Paul Traxler. He performed the abortion with the help of Dr. R.S. Lanterman, a former coroner. Later that evening Delphine became ill and was taken to Windsor Hospital in Glendale. She spent six days suffering from bleeding, severe nausea, and fever before tragically dying on May 3, 1929. The beautiful dancer was just twenty-one years old. Her official cause of death was septic peritonitis following a criminal abortion.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNPWNzHZU8nwlnfynnHHeJpT39ZoayHxwyjsVYzRp3bwalOVHca_jIQxnKXSEcxs0Ar8Lwv5QZThWxrS_UtYyu_b2Pab_53dpqQzeBUF8ih6i8txICAPMyyCXkjv2gPtOrPvjSXL1L69XB1z2BT9-Wz5fOPMkkfcl0k-XEIpgMIh_5uCBhYnnh-_322k/s1000/delphine1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGNPWNzHZU8nwlnfynnHHeJpT39ZoayHxwyjsVYzRp3bwalOVHca_jIQxnKXSEcxs0Ar8Lwv5QZThWxrS_UtYyu_b2Pab_53dpqQzeBUF8ih6i8txICAPMyyCXkjv2gPtOrPvjSXL1L69XB1z2BT9-Wz5fOPMkkfcl0k-XEIpgMIh_5uCBhYnnh-_322k/s320/delphine1.png" width="160" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-XvQhi2_PPR-inZ9uNeuNFtkuYwCtom9hjGkCrxDPZnOnO0Iv8SgCkN358fk_7rSR9wd6lFOwo8P3ZEo5ldD6L7SEb7LKJvoAJRCfMORV2OHdxF0WtSfkFXwhSMtz0JYjNDhN0sx0-4/s1600/The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Sun__Jan_20__1929_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Delphine Walsh" border="0" data-original-height="910" data-original-width="501" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-XvQhi2_PPR-inZ9uNeuNFtkuYwCtom9hjGkCrxDPZnOnO0Iv8SgCkN358fk_7rSR9wd6lFOwo8P3ZEo5ldD6L7SEb7LKJvoAJRCfMORV2OHdxF0WtSfkFXwhSMtz0JYjNDhN0sx0-4/s400/The_San_Francisco_Examiner_Sun__Jan_20__1929_.jpg" title="Delphine Walsh" width="218" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delphine in 1929</span></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXpEOUJ_Hhqgu-lQcvqqATMT7KDdFBsAHTclV5Ywifo-orsS0AGPLJzO8GwlPhU4zr9ieH-mqrigczXIEliWcbHjaA9WYcy_LM2yhXYS0WyupOmr7CtYGgCoW-MvWhopWESNV1jtSZt2xNy595igTXTSNoNHE0ybTdkgYc0LXL8w0FOr6tZ_pzpyV/s990/marchon.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Delphine Walsh With The Fanchon & Marco Dancers" border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="990" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirXpEOUJ_Hhqgu-lQcvqqATMT7KDdFBsAHTclV5Ywifo-orsS0AGPLJzO8GwlPhU4zr9ieH-mqrigczXIEliWcbHjaA9WYcy_LM2yhXYS0WyupOmr7CtYGgCoW-MvWhopWESNV1jtSZt2xNy595igTXTSNoNHE0ybTdkgYc0LXL8w0FOr6tZ_pzpyV/w400-h255/marchon.png" title="Delphine Walsh With The Fanchon & Marco Dancers" width="400" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Delphine (fifth from the right) with the Fanchon & Marco dancers</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Delphine’s death became a major story in Hollywood. Her famous friends, including actress Natalie Joyce, were questioned by the police. Mildred Harris initially denied knowing her but later admitted they had been roommates. The press started printing false rumors that Delphine had been involved with multiple men and loved to party. Her brother-in-law defended her saying she was "just a nice girl" who didn't "run around nights." One of the last things Delphine did before she died was give the name and address of Mickey Moran to investigators. He denied being her lover and said she was romantically involved with a man in Vancouver. Meanwhile her sister <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206393503/dorothy-holquin">Dorothy Holquin</a> tried to claim her body so Delphine could be buried in Arizona. Instead her adopted mother buried her in an unmarked grave at Hollywood Forever cemetery. Just one month after her death her birth father <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206346267/thomas-dougherty">Thomas Dougherty</a> died from what the press called a “broken heart”. Dr. Traxter and Dr. Lanterman were arrested and put on trial for murder in September of 1929. They denied giving Delphine an abortion claiming they only helped her after she tried to do it herself. The doctors were both found not guilty but their licenses were suspended.</div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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The real tragedy of Delphine’s death is that she would not have died if she had been able to get a safe, legal abortion. Before abortion was legalized in the United States more than 1,000 women died every year because they had an unsafe abortion. We need to keep abortion legal in this country so no more women have to die!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYNujzQRAjTv5PfCCtNIBDf09ri-wj1k8V0aQDno3R5-v4E66cRemfxx8l3d0qbrWpFokQ0QqKXgRNQWB0FpMfL_8miutcjcYOUWKFhWbiv-SUBQH3otUnjTHsy0XJddghCTZv3yzFbc/s1600/hollyfore.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Delphine Walsh Hollywood Forever" border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="800" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBYNujzQRAjTv5PfCCtNIBDf09ri-wj1k8V0aQDno3R5-v4E66cRemfxx8l3d0qbrWpFokQ0QqKXgRNQWB0FpMfL_8miutcjcYOUWKFhWbiv-SUBQH3otUnjTHsy0XJddghCTZv3yzFbc/s400/hollyfore.jpg" title="Delphine Walsh Hollywood Forever" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">In May of 2020 Delphine was finally given a grave marker at Hollywood Forever. It was paid for with a fundraiser created by Jessica at <a href="http://silenceisplatinum.blogspot.com/">Silence Is Platinum</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheKdb2SMr9TJbdGn5U-tgboTXDXB9TycN6sWb2GYQdx0-bEY3ylZw3rZHivugPvo5Z2V_1q42i4Z1D9bl0NltvQl0f_HqoDdF0bVb6IHPWYlD0gcMvRMfoTTTlxdSMxadAQ8QXdfMXxzw/s1600/delphinew.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Delphine Walsh Newspaper Article" border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="305" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheKdb2SMr9TJbdGn5U-tgboTXDXB9TycN6sWb2GYQdx0-bEY3ylZw3rZHivugPvo5Z2V_1q42i4Z1D9bl0NltvQl0f_HqoDdF0bVb6IHPWYlD0gcMvRMfoTTTlxdSMxadAQ8QXdfMXxzw/w76-h400/delphinew.jpg" title="Delphine Walsh Newspaper Article" width="76" /></a><br />
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<center><div id="amzn-assoc-ad-137f87c6-3fe8-4dc1-a81e-4d330d1a92c3"></div><script async="" src="//z-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/onejs?MarketPlace=US&adInstanceId=137f87c6-3fe8-4dc1-a81e-4d330d1a92c3"></script><br /></center>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-3730838572124831532024-01-18T02:33:00.000-08:002024-01-18T02:33:29.621-08:00Carole Lesley & Her Sad Suicide<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwab7rU1q9lCF0eymDRZpczWWC-Riz-mS8g6bTk59wpKMSAM5z1rBzdeROPaoCTOc0B8OhRULKta3UqXOdsMtL6Hgft8WTyx5lcLvcqGqbq94E0JtSXXKQrdFwyr7fhbHe-X0iQN39nafe1PrA2_YqHZVAbqQTC67j_S2izbMfMvsbdlFR7Q5z3I4l10/s590/cl5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lesley" border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdwab7rU1q9lCF0eymDRZpczWWC-Riz-mS8g6bTk59wpKMSAM5z1rBzdeROPaoCTOc0B8OhRULKta3UqXOdsMtL6Hgft8WTyx5lcLvcqGqbq94E0JtSXXKQrdFwyr7fhbHe-X0iQN39nafe1PrA2_YqHZVAbqQTC67j_S2izbMfMvsbdlFR7Q5z3I4l10/w271-h320/cl5.png" title="Carole Lesley" width="271" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <b>Carole Lesley was a British actress who tragically committed suicide after her career ended</b></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">She was born Maureen Rippingale on May 27, 1935 in Chelmsford, England. At the age of twelve she made her film debut in The Silver Darlings. A few years later she ran away from home and started performing in a London cabaret club. Carole also worked as a nude pin-up model in Paris. She landed a bit part in the 1954 crime drama The Embezzler. Then she was offered a seven year contract with Associated British Pictures. In 1957 she had a supporting role in the drama Woman In A Dressing Gown. Her performance got rave reviews and the film won the Golden Globe for Best English Language Foreign Film. Carole appeared in the movies These Dangerous Years, Doctor In Love, and Operation Bullshine. With her blonde hair and curvaceous figure she quickly became typecast as a bombshell. She was featured on numerous magazine covers including Picturegoer and Photoplay. Carole was often compared to stars <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/marilyn-monroe.html">Marilyn Monroe</a> and <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2019/10/diana-dors-britains-wild-sexpot.html">Diana Dors</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRecwoCxm6kzCgRK7r29NPjqtUnx_Jk6slfQXAv1Kg5eE1UBiK6B00SuR9UllcqYDfeiMS2mdpoAiycZYIvGKTLFdzqb29hFIyIhhHrzqGwNFgWtCzr7r5OPCoKeRPfAmKA62L3eJLDbEC38nq9hyphenhyphenztor-opK7BQGbZJ1s7LMLb_DCKGVlcSqa4MMPInE/s700/cl7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lesley" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRecwoCxm6kzCgRK7r29NPjqtUnx_Jk6slfQXAv1Kg5eE1UBiK6B00SuR9UllcqYDfeiMS2mdpoAiycZYIvGKTLFdzqb29hFIyIhhHrzqGwNFgWtCzr7r5OPCoKeRPfAmKA62L3eJLDbEC38nq9hyphenhyphenztor-opK7BQGbZJ1s7LMLb_DCKGVlcSqa4MMPInE/w261-h320/cl7.png" title="Carole Lesley" width="261" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTPgtIyHi0WtOJ-b4QbEh6U2znchS9gTXv-tYRNGvr6q9TYDC3OmDkwECHMF74ZNWLrr7V3TiyqWVa06fqWyVSonBgLud0rZiVwPFlmSzDoeh5uuzEM4p7lyAvn3pOjCdLr5JtdXsbylDQeNNzuwIGzaFxm1yoddUssfou3dmNRxDl9uWBMF1-NHul2M/s585/clnude.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lesley" border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmTPgtIyHi0WtOJ-b4QbEh6U2znchS9gTXv-tYRNGvr6q9TYDC3OmDkwECHMF74ZNWLrr7V3TiyqWVa06fqWyVSonBgLud0rZiVwPFlmSzDoeh5uuzEM4p7lyAvn3pOjCdLr5JtdXsbylDQeNNzuwIGzaFxm1yoddUssfou3dmNRxDl9uWBMF1-NHul2M/w274-h320/clnude.png" title="Carole Lesley" width="274" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">In interview she said <i>"The only thing Monroe, Dors, and I have in common is that we all like mink. And that's where it ends. I may be classified as the blonde bombshell type but I'm myself and people will have to get used to Carole Lesley"</i>.<strike></strike> By the early 1960s her career had stalled and Associated decided to drop her contract. Her final film was the 1962 comedy The Pot Carriers. Depressed over her failed career she attempted suicide in May of 1963 by slitting her wrists. Just three months later she was hospitalized after taking an overdose of pills. She married Michael Dalling, a film publicist, in August of 1964. The couple had two sons. Unfortunately she continued to suffer from severe depression. Carole began seeing a doctor and became addicted to barbiturates. Tragically on February 28, 1974 <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/263163679/carole-lesley">she committed suicide</a> with an overdose of pills. She was only thirty-eight years old. Her husband Michael believed that her death was accidental.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDZs0T7X-lnTzgxDgIBV5dj4tS5qpueojri43uIvlth4G-Q6-dp2p9_z9d5syqlSAZZL0FTbjnPmsPbPoVkN6eQ6baIQLmxBdBkwGxWbUGmgjf13voJZUjLDr0izlqv4Z-YBoprKRmJtJaW-3_ndoXTQSJe_kOA-OrgYyK66VDn_k64dPZTAVfL_WK7o/s700/cl2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lesley" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnDZs0T7X-lnTzgxDgIBV5dj4tS5qpueojri43uIvlth4G-Q6-dp2p9_z9d5syqlSAZZL0FTbjnPmsPbPoVkN6eQ6baIQLmxBdBkwGxWbUGmgjf13voJZUjLDr0izlqv4Z-YBoprKRmJtJaW-3_ndoXTQSJe_kOA-OrgYyK66VDn_k64dPZTAVfL_WK7o/w238-h320/cl2.png" title="Carole Lesley" width="238" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9LlwCEJNP-Y7qEWpZ23CPSOY8BAl9evKok3tcbzdHAH6csrfL5JHaYKLbqfIMUK5k0C3ht7BBDNOKHIVKl03zax_7It7YDg_qdptv0smTgX18FXyxOsmxHuC-yv7Scg5Raw8hs7ZR0iMIRi-oZ76x6NzV8uaLpXJZ-NxaVwDPjfQK0Wp5HRWFiiCQBs/s635/cl3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lesley" border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9LlwCEJNP-Y7qEWpZ23CPSOY8BAl9evKok3tcbzdHAH6csrfL5JHaYKLbqfIMUK5k0C3ht7BBDNOKHIVKl03zax_7It7YDg_qdptv0smTgX18FXyxOsmxHuC-yv7Scg5Raw8hs7ZR0iMIRi-oZ76x6NzV8uaLpXJZ-NxaVwDPjfQK0Wp5HRWFiiCQBs/w252-h320/cl3.png" title="Carole Lesley" width="252" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8051654923051990922.post-2005304592520168142024-01-15T22:56:00.000-08:002024-01-29T13:15:37.580-08:00 Carole Lombard ~ Hollywood's Tragic Angel<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Carole Lombard was one of Hollywood's most popular actresses until she died in a tragic plane crash</b><br />
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She was born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. When she was a child her wealthy parents separated. Carole moved to Los Angeles, California with her mother and two brothers. At the age of twelve director Allan Dwan saw her playing baseball and gave her a small role in the 1921 film A Perfect Crime. Soon after she dropped out of school to pursue her acting career dull-time. Carole was chosen to be one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties. She appeared in more than a dozen Sennett shorts including Run Girl Run, The Best Man, and The Campus Vamp. In 1927 she was involved in a serious car accident that scarred her face. Luckily she was able to resume her career after having plastic surgery. She was offered a contract with Paramount for $350 a week. The beautiful blonde was given starring roles in Safety In Numbers and Up Pops. Carole married actor William Powell, her costar in Ladies Man, in 1931. They divorced two years later but remained close friends. Then she started a romance with singer Russ Columbo and it was rumored they planned to marry.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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She would always call him the great love of her life. After Russ's death she dated actors Gary Cooper and George Raft. During the 1930s she starred in a string of hits including Twentieth Century, Rumba, We're Not Dressing, and Love Before Breakfast. She became one of Hollywood's most popular comediennes and was earning more than $450,000 year. Her close friends nicknamed her "The Profane Angel" because she loved telling dirty jokes and often shocked people with her bad language. In 1936 she co-starred with ex-husband William Powell in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey and was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance. She began dating Clark Gable, her costar in the 1932 comedy No Man Of Her Own. They were married in March of 1939 after a three year romance. Carole and Clark bought a large ranch in Encino and were considered one of Hollywood's happiest couples. Unfortunately he often cheated on her with his female co-stars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Gzb2eG5iV3SgljM6CPma4on7aOpLGRbZCzuXSEDHZr0APVeg1ylwJ4871I8MPwMSJGQThWJrmiVZDHzP_1IXj91R4K37XmbOIkjzSmKNYbGbO2kY6o71yyy_rpgoX7Nkf5LDLlrTLq8jdRmlRncAbO1aH1HdZF0s9pJ-YmH-0RHIZ1rDWyjBh7zBUr0/s700/lom3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lombard" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Gzb2eG5iV3SgljM6CPma4on7aOpLGRbZCzuXSEDHZr0APVeg1ylwJ4871I8MPwMSJGQThWJrmiVZDHzP_1IXj91R4K37XmbOIkjzSmKNYbGbO2kY6o71yyy_rpgoX7Nkf5LDLlrTLq8jdRmlRncAbO1aH1HdZF0s9pJ-YmH-0RHIZ1rDWyjBh7zBUr0/w229-h320/lom3.png" title="Carole Lombard" width="229" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5ZUfI5bsJIjI8Kq6UyJhZy2_xMlTFp9nDInf3U41nm1qGQOuTgeW8QWA8zhSrpCxbYPh9NYt_QYzjmw-wfO9qBDfbg9J398fFp8kUJxh7l60vW5PpYyTkq7ALK_jM7jGxhTmdU5nLNU/s1600/carolejacket.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lombard" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG5ZUfI5bsJIjI8Kq6UyJhZy2_xMlTFp9nDInf3U41nm1qGQOuTgeW8QWA8zhSrpCxbYPh9NYt_QYzjmw-wfO9qBDfbg9J398fFp8kUJxh7l60vW5PpYyTkq7ALK_jM7jGxhTmdU5nLNU/s320/carolejacket.jpg" title="Carole Lombard" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXX0jOIeTb43iKQacYtqg2nlDyjuxu1lVflQe756kvfrzsf2fZ0wDs3DlwWQhwwPqpKEgYa-07ksdfRJhzvsFu0wA3CtNbjTzf8RopXBaI0mClejnxOQQEo49Vr6WJPBJhX4EVZf7pRW5Ra1INt2A1_PckS0NvA06gPf1aF3DeSnXHzndV-KarJzqMfo/s700/lom1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Carole Lombard" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixXX0jOIeTb43iKQacYtqg2nlDyjuxu1lVflQe756kvfrzsf2fZ0wDs3DlwWQhwwPqpKEgYa-07ksdfRJhzvsFu0wA3CtNbjTzf8RopXBaI0mClejnxOQQEo49Vr6WJPBJhX4EVZf7pRW5Ra1INt2A1_PckS0NvA06gPf1aF3DeSnXHzndV-KarJzqMfo/w258-h320/lom1.png" title="Carole Lombard" width="258" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> She took time off to have a baby but sadly she suffered two miscarriages. Carole returned to the screen in 1941 to star in Alfred Hitchcock's comedy Mr. And Mrs. Smith. To help the war effort she and her mother attended a war bond rally in her home state of Indiana. On January 16, 1942 she decided to fly home early to see Clark. There were rumors he was having an affair with his young co-star Lana Turner. Her mother, an astrologist, begged her not to go on flight number three because it was an unlucky number. She refused to listen to her mother's warning and insisted they board the flight. Shortly after takeoff the plane crashed in Las Vegas and tragically everyone on board was killed. Carole was only thirty-three years old. She and her mother were buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Her final film, To Be Or Not To Be, was released after her death. Clark Gable was so devastated by her death that he enlisted in the Army. 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Sadly her father died when she was just six years old leaving the family destitute. Soon after her mother suffered a nervous breakdown. Helen and her two sisters were raised by relatives. After high school she enrolled in Erskine School of Dramatics in Boston. She dropped out after one semester and joined a stock company. Then she landed the lead in the Broadway show Jason. In 1942 she was signed by Paramount made her film debut in Lucky Jordan. That same year she married Robert F. Blumofe, a film executive. The lovely blonde appeared in the films Brewster's Millions, Murder He Says, and Her Adventurous Night. Helen was very picky about the roles she accepted which earned her a reputation for being difficult. She also developed a serious drinking problem. Her marriage to Robert ended in 1946. Then on December 31, 1946 she was driving her car when it crashed. Unfortunately one of her passengers was killed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZLEbP0droWtAp0qS0XoMzf7dtNOq2PSoZnqGKaNXr_rjaBeiW2Be4TQ_FVhhYlSEJPnqIwF5swBH_ZOCnoLybKkcyAOgpJLvl3l9nxCzKjpMfuAev221SDSJZrzWYTs2_TYfAgKXFLivlr7JbBTLJ3uOcDtUy6ZVj3zqklQXIRxMJmQ6WvAowyw4Qk8/s700/hw5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helen Walker" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="580" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZLEbP0droWtAp0qS0XoMzf7dtNOq2PSoZnqGKaNXr_rjaBeiW2Be4TQ_FVhhYlSEJPnqIwF5swBH_ZOCnoLybKkcyAOgpJLvl3l9nxCzKjpMfuAev221SDSJZrzWYTs2_TYfAgKXFLivlr7JbBTLJ3uOcDtUy6ZVj3zqklQXIRxMJmQ6WvAowyw4Qk8/w265-h320/hw5.png" title="Helen Walker" width="265" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsA3R36pABfnqfwNE_6IG2nbXmrDl74KJMnNIOUHutQV6hvRoFYb2NQg3ezZCXxt72PC_aXUi-iyHrXrA9Wo7v4k27jLSAtJUyCGAxfhyphenhyphenGRAyE53SoM9xMq-d_QUCbxQDqaeMiu84XYnund56sm6aQmP7AiD6sirXUQQ2vLj_4jeFQGQ4UxQHjdVRTAM/s700/hw.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Helen Walker" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsA3R36pABfnqfwNE_6IG2nbXmrDl74KJMnNIOUHutQV6hvRoFYb2NQg3ezZCXxt72PC_aXUi-iyHrXrA9Wo7v4k27jLSAtJUyCGAxfhyphenhyphenGRAyE53SoM9xMq-d_QUCbxQDqaeMiu84XYnund56sm6aQmP7AiD6sirXUQQ2vLj_4jeFQGQ4UxQHjdVRTAM/w245-h320/hw.png" title="Helen Walker" width="245" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Helen suffered numerous fractures and spent more than a month in the hospital. She was charged with manslaughter but she was acquitted of all charges. In late 1947 she returned to the screen with a role in the drama Nightmare Alley. Although her performance got good reviews the bad press from her car accident had hurt her reputation. Helen continued to get roles in films like Call Northside 777 and My Dear Secretary. On April 29, 1950 she married Edward Nicholas du Domaine, a forty-one year old furrier. They divorced two years later. By the late 1950s her movie career was over and she decided to quit acting. Her final role was in a 1960 episode of the television series Lock Up. Soon after her house was destroyed in a fire. Some of her famous friends staged a benefit to raise money for her Tragically in the early 1960s she was diagnosed with jaw cancer. On March 10, 1968 she died at the young age of forty-seven. She was buried with her father at
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<center><b>Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz created Hollywood's most iconic sitcom. Sadly Desi's bad behavior left Lucille with a broken heart</b></center><center><b><br /></b></center>
<center>Lucille Desiree Ball was born on August 6, 1911, in Jamestown, New York. Tragically her father died when she was just three years old. Her mother remarried and the family moved to Celeron, New York. At the age of fifteen she went to New York City and enrolled in drama school. Using the stage name of Diane Belmont she began modeling. She earned very little and had to resort to posing nude to earn money. After being fired from the Ziegfeld Follies she was so distraught she considered suicide! Her big break came in 1932 when producer Sam Goldwyn chose her to be one of his "Goldwyn Girls". Lucille landed small roles in movies like Stage Door, Top Hat, and Room Service. She was briefly engaged to Broderick Crawford and had an affair with producer Pandro S. Berman. While making the comedy Too Many Girls she met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. They were married in November of 1940 after a whirlwind courtship. Lucille was madly in with her new husband and the two enjoyed an active sex life. <span style="text-align: left;">To get more attention in Hollywood she decided to dye her brown hair bright red. It worked and in 1943 she signed a contract with MGM where she became known as "Technicolor Tessie". </span></center><center><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></center><center><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5z7X2TcF0mP7g9DKwENE7wNHozg-ddtQsln1m-YZ5N-RH8CkMvdOxTlb08BqOCpirLZ85vie5oMKdiqXuhAmD8ogZGMMHlrUiWUsa3x2fufqHYs67Wmfv-t-kjZjD9bWOVBzLVQquNyY/s1600/lucilleballyoung.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5z7X2TcF0mP7g9DKwENE7wNHozg-ddtQsln1m-YZ5N-RH8CkMvdOxTlb08BqOCpirLZ85vie5oMKdiqXuhAmD8ogZGMMHlrUiWUsa3x2fufqHYs67Wmfv-t-kjZjD9bWOVBzLVQquNyY/s320/lucilleballyoung.jpg" title="Lucille Ball" width="263" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKlwzeOUhp9FYOu0rNAeMDuqi4Dg9L26_fnqkLaef1yMJL71Z923-vJus0WyAp6EMvtC8VI0jdU64R5Iei9tULs8bBcjFTu9fj3URGZzgQRNV-PmWnzXOJG31CKGiXxekVYCAeHnhxViUVuaA4Kg_EoKx6_cy29bkepFCARJ2KZrhi8Vf4Ka2bKMz/s700/model.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="530" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFKlwzeOUhp9FYOu0rNAeMDuqi4Dg9L26_fnqkLaef1yMJL71Z923-vJus0WyAp6EMvtC8VI0jdU64R5Iei9tULs8bBcjFTu9fj3URGZzgQRNV-PmWnzXOJG31CKGiXxekVYCAeHnhxViUVuaA4Kg_EoKx6_cy29bkepFCARJ2KZrhi8Vf4Ka2bKMz/w242-h320/model.jpg" title="Lucille Ball" width="242" /></a><br /></center><center><br /></center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHtBLWsC7FNO1HY8O5gf5y_qbADXvkm8ZLCiRai0dI0z_2nMR-BdGfrYccN3aBNPKx-eLWE2ezlAo-Qkf0cIUYRxShc3rNk-uCHufbAI1nh0pL78ETGgJjgTOkuS0NcDHSkJWIpcgVQMPvLp9jq3_P_ioJDFvlWVshI0-vulF8nF2ambLiWFh-3_V/s700/lb1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHtBLWsC7FNO1HY8O5gf5y_qbADXvkm8ZLCiRai0dI0z_2nMR-BdGfrYccN3aBNPKx-eLWE2ezlAo-Qkf0cIUYRxShc3rNk-uCHufbAI1nh0pL78ETGgJjgTOkuS0NcDHSkJWIpcgVQMPvLp9jq3_P_ioJDFvlWVshI0-vulF8nF2ambLiWFh-3_V/s320/lb1.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></center><center><span style="text-align: left;">She worked with Bob Hope in Fancy Pants and with Van Johnson in Easy To Wed but she was unhappy with the roles she was given. Unfortunately her marriage to Desi was very tumultuous. They had raging fights and in 1944 she filed divorce. They reconciled a few weeks later. The couple</span><span style="text-align: left;"> desperately wanted to become parents but she suffered several miscarriages. </span>Lucille finally gave birth to a daughter named Lucie at the age of thirty-nine. Wanting to spend more time together she and Desi teamed up to co-star in a television show. When producers were reluctant to cast Cuban born Desi as Lucille's husband they decided to produce the show themselves. Together they formed Desilu productions and their show I Love Lucy premiered in October of 1951. I Love Lucy was a huge success and they quickly became the most popular couple on television. She would win two Emmy awards for her performance on the show. When her onscreen character, Lucy Ricardo, gave birth in January of 1953 more than forty million viewers tuned in. That same month their real son, Desi Junior, was born. In 1954 she and Desi teamed up again to make the hit film The Long Long Trailer. </center><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CeEO3iaSB0Kn1_3pf73PfR_gENkuIcScsvgSO1TUtmP8-KCJgjB0tCOzve3S_mahE2q6an_fRvDosVBdav1nYP4ZdPikGnYmp8oKllbOx19QYGXN_-AP2rOL3RBuXeR4EtEL9Tqen0vgNqVWS70SIHBXHCGc8m0lOmCDeCmgKnY9tHEtgUNk1pIl/s700/desi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz in I Love Lucy" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9CeEO3iaSB0Kn1_3pf73PfR_gENkuIcScsvgSO1TUtmP8-KCJgjB0tCOzve3S_mahE2q6an_fRvDosVBdav1nYP4ZdPikGnYmp8oKllbOx19QYGXN_-AP2rOL3RBuXeR4EtEL9Tqen0vgNqVWS70SIHBXHCGc8m0lOmCDeCmgKnY9tHEtgUNk1pIl/w297-h320/desi.jpg" title="Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz in I Love Lucy" width="297" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijn9On_qTlfMZ__Pt8fm0AWe_HKo65jUTH314GsCM0EC-_HzGm9IMjxqbZM5Zjw8rnJOzDhxSM9nbIVGdPhmJBtng_QsqxQ1o-9v2I7_VpNNdParAosmnI23w7nlzZepMyArVPAEGa3Sk5VY8dI_Dg5nXcQqROBG1HHWdA7XivajAmiJUAxyUPxQ7y/s700/desi1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijn9On_qTlfMZ__Pt8fm0AWe_HKo65jUTH314GsCM0EC-_HzGm9IMjxqbZM5Zjw8rnJOzDhxSM9nbIVGdPhmJBtng_QsqxQ1o-9v2I7_VpNNdParAosmnI23w7nlzZepMyArVPAEGa3Sk5VY8dI_Dg5nXcQqROBG1HHWdA7XivajAmiJUAxyUPxQ7y/w311-h320/desi1.jpg" title="Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz" width="311" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz</span></b></div><center><br /></center>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYC1c3zUDrAipfnvsnBmQYkBHPtN6bk2gTCZ-4yP-IxKKCYamQfHLqBivtej5JwQrHpfqZFiN0YHN1kFq-iyP1mX0e5JMhAEwUp-xaTGnUUdgFxLj-WmX4ws_qj5eeXCZYtxVEPCl9Xw/s1600/lucy3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaYC1c3zUDrAipfnvsnBmQYkBHPtN6bk2gTCZ-4yP-IxKKCYamQfHLqBivtej5JwQrHpfqZFiN0YHN1kFq-iyP1mX0e5JMhAEwUp-xaTGnUUdgFxLj-WmX4ws_qj5eeXCZYtxVEPCl9Xw/s320/lucy3.jpg" title="Lucille Ball" width="239" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile Desilu became one of the most successful production companies in Hollywood. Sadly the pressures of their high profile careers began to take a toll on the marriage. Desi started drinking heavily and often cheated with prostitutes. By 1960 she could no longer live with his bad behavior. A heartbroken Lucille decided to end their television show and filed for divorce. At their trial she said the marriage had been "a nightmare". She married comedian Gary Morton in 1961. Lucille would star in two more long-running television series - The Lucy Show with <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2023/06/vivianvance.html">Vivian Vance</a> and Here's Lucy. She continued to run Desilu until 1967 when she sold her shares for more than $17 million. Although she never reunited with Desi she never stopped caring about him. The night before he died in 1985 she spoke to him on the phone and repeatedly told him"I love you". Her final public appearance would be at the 1989 Academy Awards. On April 26, 1989 she died from an aortic aneurysm at the age of seventy-seven. Lucille was cremated and her ashes were buried in Los Angeles, California. In 2002 her family moved them to Lake View Cemetery in Jamestown, New York.</div>
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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Vivian Vance was a television actress who will always be remembered for playing Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy<span><a name='more'></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: center;">She was born Vivian Roberta Jones on July 26, 1909 in Cherryvale, Kansas. Her family moved to Independence, Kansas when she was six. Vivian was raised in a strict religious home and her father could be abusive. She later claimed that he made her afraid of all men. After high school she went to Albuquerque, New Mexico and started acting in local theater productions. At the age of nineteen she married Joseph Danneck Jr, a publicity agent. They split up a few years later. In 1932 she moved to New York City where she studied with acting teacher
Eva Le Gallienne. At first she had a lot of trouble finding work. Vivian's big break came when she was cast in the Broadway show in Musical In The Air. Then she was chosen to be Ethel Merman's understudy in the musical Anything Goes. She married violinist George Nathan Koch in 1933. Her success on Broadway continued with roles in Red, Hot, and Blue and Out From Under. Vivian began an affair with married actor Philip Ober in 1939. She and Paul both left their spouses so they could marry each other. They wanted to have a child together but she suffered a miscarriage early in their marriage. While touring with Voice Of The Turtle in 1945 she had a complete nervous breakdown. Her psychiatrist diagnosed her with "anxiety neurosis" that had been caused by her childhood trauma. In 1951 she had a small role in the film The Blue Veil starring Jane Wyman.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1gcvi9XlpKynvnblSzcW_A5L8-Ia5dGtsbcqtxNhLyp0z3ONf3Fmqo6qCASNTl7ncprjV-YUWF-6ncBFxmDC42dcFEbjCz1O-RQcaoOg9OkHzaAypGe16c-ZhwS3tC7f6kwFddEByiA8ExkzuA0Vot-ROKNLiNprMXFEgctcYoHkpAfvN61OizoJ/s570/viv1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vivian Vance" border="0" data-original-height="570" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1gcvi9XlpKynvnblSzcW_A5L8-Ia5dGtsbcqtxNhLyp0z3ONf3Fmqo6qCASNTl7ncprjV-YUWF-6ncBFxmDC42dcFEbjCz1O-RQcaoOg9OkHzaAypGe16c-ZhwS3tC7f6kwFddEByiA8ExkzuA0Vot-ROKNLiNprMXFEgctcYoHkpAfvN61OizoJ/w281-h320/viv1.png" title="Vivian Vance" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIwL8rspR1JJzA-Hdu_3yRazNoj663qlNdNbt5KxZ68tTAiUcvt13ywjqcKAsXUNgQv3CYoWBaaYoMtEABE9LkskqCyfEJwoI_u6r_9hfKG5H31zn1dB38AdlalGFmlLeMzoSbSDOMalJrZwZpHmmMEWr-LYWp06WiR3cuLDiRtB9j9s4ci4U2xU2c/s700/viv4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball Vivian Vance" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="580" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIwL8rspR1JJzA-Hdu_3yRazNoj663qlNdNbt5KxZ68tTAiUcvt13ywjqcKAsXUNgQv3CYoWBaaYoMtEABE9LkskqCyfEJwoI_u6r_9hfKG5H31zn1dB38AdlalGFmlLeMzoSbSDOMalJrZwZpHmmMEWr-LYWp06WiR3cuLDiRtB9j9s4ci4U2xU2c/w265-h320/viv4.png" title="Lucille Ball Vivian Vance" width="265" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4Uy9bKXFl2z7zIjVJ4lgix7DR1K54W6ybMfbFr9KrgdTmyS4Q3LrneX8KFWURGRm3ZQQ47eXu5H4KvavtS2sz_v_DdalRB_l8jbO4Tg2r9fDE95uisKxLHPdX8Kf0wA0cXhYj2Xnbu3p17QuXsA0fC65eB75iiEfeFtfvMTxF0UW25XxUSAlfy1M/s700/viv9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Lucille Ball Vivian Vance" border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="700" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4Uy9bKXFl2z7zIjVJ4lgix7DR1K54W6ybMfbFr9KrgdTmyS4Q3LrneX8KFWURGRm3ZQQ47eXu5H4KvavtS2sz_v_DdalRB_l8jbO4Tg2r9fDE95uisKxLHPdX8Kf0wA0cXhYj2Xnbu3p17QuXsA0fC65eB75iiEfeFtfvMTxF0UW25XxUSAlfy1M/w320-h251/viv9.jpg" title="Lucille Ball Vivian Vance" width="320" /></a><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">With Lucille Ball in I Love Lucy</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">That same year she auditioned for a role on <a href="https://www.classicactresses.org/2017/01/lucille-ball.html">Lucille Ball's</a> new sitcom I Love Lucy. Vivian was cast as Ethel Mertz, Lucy's best friend and neighbor. The show would make her a household name and in 1954 she won the Emmy award for Best Supporting Actress. Although she enjoyed her newfound fame she hated being known as the frumpy, overweight Ethel. She never got along with William Frawley who played her husband Fred Mertz. Vivian even refused a lucrative offer to star in a spin-off because she didn't want to work with him again. Unfortunately her marriage to Phil had become tumultuous. He was very jealous of her success and often abused her. The couple were divorced in 1959. Two years later she married publisher John Dodds, who was twelve years younger than her and gay. She was aware of his sexuality but they seemed to have a happy marriage. In 1962 she reunited with her close friend Lucille Ball to co-star in the series The Lucy Show. After three seasons she left the show over a contract dispute. Vivian continued to work occasionally on television and appeared in commercials for Maxwell house coffee. Sadly she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1973. Four years later she suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed. On August 17, 1979 she died from cancer at the age of seventy. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><center><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?si=h7F2dDV2Wo0OLNZJ&list=PLH25K1M_hrtsQYi-M5Uvdjijd4rtlUgvv" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></center></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkNUZhpuwl1W5R9DoDKpsPtjFCNzaKKvpCYD2mcJK9i3DJyh3bF2N5kOrsKlGiz4SgbcuiyBDZETQ_aM7PP-Iv0FMR-S9S_ZNafLdDG2FHPVxVzDMynZ53afCinuYiK5GhCEbxo_cIIbJOrFuzAloWCXeIeq_gTHOcGnuwXlY46nDa8sfE_728j0W/s699/vanceober.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vivian Vance Phil Ober" border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="699" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpkNUZhpuwl1W5R9DoDKpsPtjFCNzaKKvpCYD2mcJK9i3DJyh3bF2N5kOrsKlGiz4SgbcuiyBDZETQ_aM7PP-Iv0FMR-S9S_ZNafLdDG2FHPVxVzDMynZ53afCinuYiK5GhCEbxo_cIIbJOrFuzAloWCXeIeq_gTHOcGnuwXlY46nDa8sfE_728j0W/w320-h311/vanceober.jpg" title="Vivian Vance Phil Ober" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">With her husband Phil Ober</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvANmSQlT8KHkigZsJdvbvt_h1q4N0yUo4tN5EmL66ykQZP3fuQh29b1tubodv6CuAeI6AZMOwtKvdCmjPMGcqx8Rsiwgbpnm6eRzaSNAn8ERVE1QkL4Z03Z0-ivFT-s-VmB6c3mCWqsVwztXfEEJEVGrOXtKGadeIpk2Xa-PUivwNcg3DYaCQpDUVzY/s530/ethelm.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vivian Vance On I Love Lucy" border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="530" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHvANmSQlT8KHkigZsJdvbvt_h1q4N0yUo4tN5EmL66ykQZP3fuQh29b1tubodv6CuAeI6AZMOwtKvdCmjPMGcqx8Rsiwgbpnm6eRzaSNAn8ERVE1QkL4Z03Z0-ivFT-s-VmB6c3mCWqsVwztXfEEJEVGrOXtKGadeIpk2Xa-PUivwNcg3DYaCQpDUVzY/w320-h302/ethelm.png" title="Vivian Vance On I Love Lucy" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-TVJo5M3i2gD2qfB_1Cb7AB0kkl9TJeaQWpCArYOMrGdWLJ10z1rbIz0OSViniHbeG_8nRI9lsz6rCwZy3q8uxMI1vkypmoGsePo3aLHc2m7DVDrRXUd9qiiul6ICVMhgx52f7mdB_5t16fnGk2iPMMhkqZFgir5ChQ2oo0hXP-cDVOrwxwKeBB7nIY/s700/viv12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Vivian Vance" border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="570" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq-TVJo5M3i2gD2qfB_1Cb7AB0kkl9TJeaQWpCArYOMrGdWLJ10z1rbIz0OSViniHbeG_8nRI9lsz6rCwZy3q8uxMI1vkypmoGsePo3aLHc2m7DVDrRXUd9qiiul6ICVMhgx52f7mdB_5t16fnGk2iPMMhkqZFgir5ChQ2oo0hXP-cDVOrwxwKeBB7nIY/w261-h320/viv12.png" title="Vivian Vance" width="261" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Recommended Reading</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/48zxV9J" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="991" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkW8qnpdscmNJ-hhcR3DCQnEqToW99tCsfs4GeD41jtcnGzqSoOufO_xcNWWIohdmAvvoBBVEGrnobIbyynbf0gvFkVGANrsALB-4baUcDf3BMWZLoJq4YwqfUjEJS86xsF9MVFb9fCvTTGGxrAK1Wy6LdHKhFTmw9_I-aP-Fs7lXOVisRrtLvK4zVlP0/s320/mertzbook.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></b></div>CaroleLandishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10540581927500753861noreply@blogger.com