Nationality American Role Film actress Name Dagmar Godowsky | Years active 1919-1926 Occupation Actress | |
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Full Name Mercedes Dagmar Godowsky Movies The Trap, The Story Without a Name, Stronger Than Death, The Lost Chord, Bonds of Honor Books First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky Parents Leopold Godowsky, Frieda Saxe Similar People Frank Mayo, Leopold Godowsky, Yvonne Hughes, Herbert Blache, Robert Z Leonard | ||
➿ Top 8 Quotes of Dagmar Godowsky - Film actress
Dagmar Godowsky (November 24, 1897 – February 13, 1975) was an American silent film actress born in Chicago to Polish composer Leopold Godowsky and Frederica Saxe.
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- Top 8 Quotes of Dagmar Godowsky Film actress
- Silent film actress
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Silent film actress
Her Hollywood film career spanned the years from 1919 through 1926. She played in A Sainted Devil (1924) with Rudolph Valentino and The Story Without a Name (1924). The latter co-starred Tyrone Power, Sr. and Louis Wolheim. Among her other film credits are Red Lights (1923), The Common Law (1923), Virtuous Liars (1924), and The Price of a Party (1924).
Personal life
Godowsky wed silent screen actor Frank Mayo in Tijuana, Mexico in 1921. She named actress Anna Luther as co-respondent in a suit brought against Mayo in March 1925. The marriage was annulled in August 1928 on the ground that Mayo had another wife.
In 1958 Godowsky published a thoroughly candid (disputed; according to the Artur Rubenstein biography by Harvey Sachs, Godowsky's memoirs were "apparently uninhibited but in fact heavily self-censored.") autobiography entitled First Person Plural. She wrote I lived only for pleasure and I spoiled my own fun. Where was I running? From whom? Little feet running around the globe. Nothing but circles, and I never once bumped into myself. In the book she named Enrico Caruso, Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Charles Chaplin, Igor Stravinsky, and Valentino among her "great loves". When queried about the number of husbands she had, Godowsky responded, Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.
In her later years she made frequent appearances in London, England and on television talk shows in New York City.
Death
Godowsky died aged 78 in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on February 13, 1975. It was the anniversary of her father's birth. Her funeral was held at Riverside Chapel on Amsterdam Avenue and 76th Street. She was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Westchester, New York. She was survived by a brother, Leopold Jr. He was married to Frances Gershwin, sister of George Gershwin.