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(Paule Croset)
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| 20 October 20 |
is born in Papeete, Tahiti, to Marc Croset, a Swiss-French traveling representative of a watch firm, and his English wife Lily
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| c. 24 |
her brother, Gaston, is born in France
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is educated in Shanghai, Switzerland, and Paris
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| 36 |
she and her family are in Korea when the war breaks out
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| May 40 |
coming from Sydney, Australia, she and her family arrive aboard the SS Mariposa in San Francisco, California
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goes with her family to Los Angeles
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studies at the Guy Bates Post Academy and with Max Reinhardt
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appears with the Assistance League players
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| October 42 |
as Rita Corday, she is signed to a long-term contract with RKO
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her father, representing Switzerland, is reported staying with her mother in wartime Shanghai
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leaves RKO and works in the Actors Lab
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| April 43 |
the press tells that her real name is Jeanne Paule Teipo-Jie-Marma Croset
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| Summer 43 |
she, Bonita Granville, Anne Shirley, Wally Brown, Ann Summers, and Kent Smith study Chinese. Their teacher is Edward Dmytryk, signed for Behind the Rising Sun, who took up the language as a hobby several years ago.
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| April 46 |
is pictured contributing her check at the opening of the nationwide cancer control campaign
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| c. 46 |
changes her name to Paule Croset
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| November 46 |
columnist Louella Parsons tells: "she is 21 years old, with a veritable league of nations background. She was born in Tahiti, educated in Shanghai, Switzerland and France, and fled here from Shanghai with her family in 1941."
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| May 47 |
columnist Jimmy Fidler thinks that if she, "Douglas Fairbanks' new discovery, has acting ability to match her beauty, she's a cinch for stardom..."
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| June 47 |
is reported feuding with Maria Montez on the set of The Exile
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| July 47 |
will marry Harold Nebenzal, son of the producer Seymour Nebenzal and a Marine Corps officer in the South Pacific during the war
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| 25 September 47 |
marries Harold A. Nebenzal. He's 25; she's 26. The press gives her age as 22.
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| October 47 |
is named "Fur Cinderella" by the Associated Fur Coat & Trimming Manufacturers Inc., in New York. The press pictures her wearing a $1,400 custom-made Alaska Sealskin fur coat which will be given away as a prize in the contest.
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| December 47 |
she and Nebenzal enjoy a belated honeymoon in Coronado, California
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her husband is reported taking a film test for an acting contract at Universal-International
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| March 48 |
reveals her secret marriage to Nebenzal
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| May 48 |
leaves the Fairbanks Company to free-lance
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| June 48 |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., says he still holds her contract
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changes her name back to Paula Corday
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| October 52 |
columnist Edith Gwynn tells that "Paula Corday and Harold Nebenzal have celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary..."
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| 20 December 57 |
her son, Daniel M., is born in Los Angeles
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| 14 December 60 |
her daughter, Deborah, is born in Los Angeles
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| 79 |
is still married to producer Harold Nebenzal
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resides in Sherman Oaks
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| 23 November 92 |
as Rita Corday, she dies at age 72 at a hospital in Century City, Los Angeles, after surgery for complications from diabetes. The press notes that "she was believed to be in her 70s."
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is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California. She is in the Remembrance Columbarium, N-61185
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Sources:
The Film Encyclopedia by Ephraim Katz, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Daily Courier, Oakland Tribune, The Frederick Post, Reno Evening Gazette, Nevada State Journal, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Joplin Globe, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, The Daily Register, Pottstown Mercury, Burlington Daily Times-News, Screen Romances, Indiana Evening Gazette, Long Beach Press-Telegram, www.Ancestry.com, www.Findagrave.com |
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