Word: marilynn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Mrs. Marilynn Miller Pickford, 29, famed musical comedy actress, from Jack Pickford, 31, cinemactor and brother of Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks; in Versailles. She charged desertion, incompatibility. Her first husband was Actor Frank Carter who died in 1920 in an automobile accident. Said she last June: "Paris divorces are easy to get!" French legal circles were vexed, the Pickford divorce suit was deferred to October...
Soon after Marilynn Miller sued Jack Pickford for divorce, tempestuous Frenchmen raised their voices in angry protest. An investigation followed, which established that U. S. citizens made false claims of French residence after a stay of only a few weeks in a hotel or a furnished apartment; that they illegally claimed residence in a U. S. state where the conditions of divorce favored their case. For example, it was stated that many people obtained divorces on the ground of incompatibility and claimed residence in those states where such ground is sustained, no French divorce being granted that conflicts with...
People who had always seen Maude Adams there before missed her terribly. They remembered what a quizzical Peter she was, how wistful, how shy, how genuinely joyous, how she tugged at your heartstrings and did all the little things "just right." This time, Marilynn Miller was there instead, ever so pretty ; light and bright and fair as a fairy. Happy, too - but that was just it. She was too happy, like a musical comedy girl. And she danced too well, too wisely...
Peter Pan?The U. S. had come to believe this fantasy of J. M. Barrie the exclusive privilege of Maude Adams. Some months ago, Charles B. Dillingham went to London with the photographs of 20 actresses. Examining them all carefully, Mr. Barrie selected Marilynn Miller, musical comedy star. She will desert the musical stage to pick up the torch abandoned by Miss Adams...
...Marilynn Miller, famed musical comedy player: "When he learned that James M. Barrie had selected me from among ten actresses submitted for the title role of Peter Pan, one Frederick Donaghey, critic of the Chicago Tribune, wrote: 'A guess as to the other nine, in view of Miss Miller's special talents for the part, would list the Misses Sophie Tucker, Marie Dressier, Fannie Brice, Nora Bayes, Gilda Grey, Henrietta Grossman, Nazimova, Mrs. Thomas Whiffen and the two-a-day gymnast called Dainty Marie.' Said Alexander Woollcott, famed critic of The New York Herald: 'Quite...