Jetta Goudal

 Jetta Goudal, born Julie Henriette Goudeket (July 12, 1891 – January 14, 1985)

Goudal was successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era. Tall and regal in appearance, she began her acting career on stage, traveling across Europe with various theater companies. In 1918, she left World War I-era devastated Europe to settle in New York City in the United States, where she hid her Dutch Jewish ancestry. She first appeared on Broadway in 1921, using the stage name Jetta Goudal. Goudal's first role in motion pictures came in The Bright Shawl (1923). She quickly earned praise for her film work, especially for her performance in 1925's Salome of the Tenements, a film based on the Anzia Yezierska novel about life in New York's Jewish Lower East Side. Goudal then worked in the Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky co-production of The Spaniard and her growing fame brought her to the attention of producer/director Cecil B. DeMille. Goudal appeared in several highly successful and acclaimed films for DeMille and became one of the top box office draws of the late 1920s. Goudal later appeared in 1928's The Cardboard Lover, produced by William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. DeMille later fired her, and claimed that Goudal was difficult to work with. Despite suing, and winning a claim against DeMille, she was deemed unemployable in Hollywood. In 1932, at age forty-one, she made her last screen appearance in a talkie, co-starring with Will Rogers in the Fox Film Corporation production of Business and Pleasure. In 1930, she married Harold Grieve, an art director and founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. When her film career ended, she joined Grieve in running a successful interior design business. She died on January 14, 1985 at age 93, and is interred at Forest Lawn-Glendale.