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(Margaret Dolores Katherine Casey)
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| 9 February 13 |
is born in Brooklyn, New York, of Irish descent, to Mr. and Mrs. Casey, nee Daly
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| 30 |
graduates from Sacred Heart Convent, New York
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enrolls at Columbia University for a course in journalism
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is stricken with tuberculosis and is forced to retire from her classes
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starts as a commercial model in New York
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is screen-tested and put under a one-year-contract by United Artists
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the year at United Artists goes by without a part in a single picture
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| November 34 |
is put under contract by Paramount
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becomes a Goldwyn Girl
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| December 34 |
the press tells: “ A lucky beauty is Dolores Casey. She wasn’t looking for a movie job when she posed for a New York commercial photographer, but a sharp-eyed film talent scout saw the picture, liked it, and rushed around to sign her up. So now she’s in Hollywood, ready for her career.”
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| April 36 |
singer-actor Arthur Tracy is reported keeping the long distance telephone busy with transcontinental messages to her. “Tracy met her in London, not long after a Reno divorce cut the ties that bound him to his former wife, and from that time on the pair were - as the Broadway columnists say - ‘seen everywhere together.’”
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| 19 April 36 |
is admitted to a Monrovia, California, sanitarium for a long fight against tuberculosis of the throat. The press tells that her friends - director Ray McCarey and actor William Frawley amongst - collected money and deposited a thousand dollars to her account to pay for her treatment. The well-known physician Dr. E. C. Moore says he will care for her.
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| December 36 |
columnist Walter Winchell reports on her, “who was so ill for too long is on the mend and so beautiful again...”
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| January 38 |
the press heralds: “Two years ago Dolores Casey, promising actress, was given a contract by a Hollywood studio. Then tuberculosis developed, and she spent months in a hospital. She has just returned to the films, and her first part is that of a nurse in the Bing Crosby picture Dr. Rhythm.”
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| September 38 |
columnist Charles G. Sampas lists her among his stars of tomorrow
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| Late December 38 |
reveals her engagement to Bob Linden, assistant film director
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| April 41 |
columnist Harrison Carroll reports: “Nice to hear that Dolores Casey will be out of the sanitarium in four more weeks. Dolores is one of Hollywood’s prettiest girls. She has been sick for a year and a half. Some of her pals have stuck by her. Eddie Moran for one. Paramount also can take a bow for its generosity. The studio has kept Dolores under contract all through her illness...”
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marries
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| 11 May 45 |
as Margaret Dolores Wynne, she dies at age 32 in Hollywood, California
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Sources:
San Antonio Express, The Lowell Sun, Uniontown News Standard, San Antonio Express, The Brownsville Herald, The Times and Daily News Leader, Reno Evening Gazette, Las Cruces Sun-News, www.Ancestry.com |
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