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Small steps to glory

Lois Moran (1909-1990)Her soft Irish beauty highlighted many films in the late 1920s and 1930s,but film actress Lois Moran's major claim to fame was as Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character of "Rosemary" in his novel Tender Is the Night.She trained in dance while young and moved to Paris with her mother at the age of 10 to study seriously.She danced and sang for several years at the Paris National Opera and appeared in two silents.Hollywood came calling in 1925 and she quickly made an auspicious debut her first movie: a success.She appeared in a few early musical talkies such as Mammy (1930) with Al Jolson.She married an Assistant Secretary of Commerce,in 1935 and retired.She came back briefly on the TV series "Waterfront" (1954) which ran for three seasons.In later years she settled in Sedona (AZ) with her husband (he died in 1972).She died of cancer at age 81,never having missed the career she left over five decades before. Kit:eek:nly anonymous freebies!
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