biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1980)
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| biography:
| Actress, born in New York City, USA. A child performer, she spent some years in vaudeville and on Broadway before her first film, Night After Night (1932). Throughout the 1930s a series of racy comedies, often with her own dialogue-script, all celebrating the sexually emancipated woman, although under much pressure from censorship. She subsequently returned to the stage and nightclubs, but made two late character appearances in Myra Breckenridge (1970) and Sextette (1978), before her death from a stroke in Los Angeles. Her name was given to a pneumatic lifejacket which, when inflated, was considered to give the wearer the generous bosom for which she was noted. |
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