Lili Damita
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Lili Damita (born Liliane Marie-Madeleine Carré; 10 July 1904-March 1994) was a French-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.
Early life and education
Lili Damita was born in Blaye, France, on July 10th, 1904. Her father was an officer. She was educated in convents and ballet schools in several nations, including her native France, as well as Spain and Portugal. At 14 years old, she was accepted as a dancer at Opéra de Paris.
Personal life
She married unknown actor Errol Flynn in 1935 and resigned from film after a lengthy friendship with Curtiz. Flynn became one of Hollywood's most popular box office attractions, and they had a son, Sean Flynn, in 1941. In 1942, the couple had an egregious divorce. Barbara Hershey portrays her in the television film My Wicked Ways (1985), based on Flynn's autobiography. Damita married Allen Loomis in 1962, a retired Fort Dodge, Iowa, dairy products manufacter, who died in Palm Beach, Florida, and spent part of each year living there. They divorced in the mid-80s.
During the Cambodian Civil War (Khmer Rouge reign), her son Sean Flynn was working as a freelance photo journalist for Time magazine when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone went missing on the road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 6, 1970. Despite spending a considerable amount of money on her son, he was never found, and in 1984, he was declared legally dead, and that Damita spent a considerable amount of money on her son.
Modeling and German film were all in the beginning of her career.
She appeared in famous music halls as a child and then appeared in the Casino de Paris's Revue. She began working as a photographic model. She appeared in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in Das Spielzeug von Paris (1925) by Hungarian-born director Michael Curtiz. Curtiz produced her in two more films: Fiaker Nr. 1. She was a hit on the first screen, and she was a natural performer in two more films. 13 (1926) and Der goldene Schmetterling (1926). Damita appeared in German films directed by Robert Wiene (Die große Abenteuerin; 1928), G.W. Pabst (Man spielted nicht mit den Liebe; 1926) and British filmmaker Graham Cutts (The Queen Was in the Parlour; 1927).
Hollywood career
Damita was brought to Hollywood by Samuel Goldwyn in 1928 and made her American film debut in The Rescue. She was leased out to a variety of studios, including Maurice Chevalier, Laurence Olivier, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, and Cary Grant. The Cock-Eyed World (1929), the semi-silent The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929), and This Is the Night (1932).