Leona Maricle
Leona Maricle | |
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Born | December 23, 1905 Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S. |
Died | March 25, 1988 (aged 82) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1933–1946 (film) |
Spouse |
Louis Jean Heydt
(m. 1928, divorced) |
Leona Maricle (December 23, 1905 – March 25, 1988) was an American stage and film actress[1] known for "distinctive characterizations of colorful ladies."[2]
Maricle was a graduate of the College of Industrial Arts.[3] Her Broadway debut came in The Trial of Mary Dugan (1927). Her final appearance on Broadway was in Never Too Late (1962).[4]
In the mid-1930s, she and her husband were active in summer stock theatre in Skowhegan, Maine.[2]
Her husband Louis Jean Heydt was a character actor in films from the 1930s through the 1950s. They divorced. She did not remarry.[citation needed]
On March 25, 1988, Maricle died of an apparent heart attack in her apartment in Manhattan. Her obituary in The New York Times gave her age as 81. [4]
Selected filmography[edit]
- O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935)
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
- Women of Glamour (1937)
- Woman Chases Man (1937)
- The Lone Wolf in Paris (1938)
- Curtain Call (1940)
- Under Age (1941)
- The Hard Way (1943)
- My Reputation (1946)
References[edit]
- ^ Blottner pg. 235
- ^ a b "Colorful Ladies Are Specialties of Leona Maricle". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. October 7, 1934. p. SO 11. Retrieved March 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Heydt--Maricle". The Montclair Times. New Jersey, Montclair. August 22, 1928. p. 4. Retrieved March 4, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Leona Maricle, Actress, 81". The New York Times. New York, New York City. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
Bibliography[edit]
- Blottner, Gene. Columbia Noir: A Complete Filmography, 1940-1962. McFarland, 2015.
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