Occupation Actress Children Harry Joe Brown Jr. Role Actress | Name Sally Eilers Years active 1927–1950 Siblings Bud Eilers | |
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Died January 5, 1978, Woodland Hills, California, United States Movies Bad Girl, Sailor's Luck, Condemned Women, Coroner Creek, Central Airport Similar People Hoot Gibson, Harry Joe Brown, Lew Landers, Norma Shearer, Ray Enright | ||
Movie legends sally eilers
Sally Eilers (December 11, 1908 – January 5, 1978) was an American actress.
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- Alice White Sally Eilers In Bed Pre Code Broadway Babies
- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- Death
- Filmography
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Alice White Sally Eilers In Bed ~ Pre-Code Broadway Babies
Early life
Dorothea Sally Eilers was born in New York City to a Jewish-American mother, Paula or Pauline Schoenberger, and a German-American father, Hio Peter Eilers (an inventor). She had one sibling, a brother, Hio Peter Eilers Jr.
She was educated in Los Angeles and went into films because so many of her friends were in pictures. She studied for the stage, specializing in dancing. Her first try was a failure, so she tried typing, but then went back into pictures and succeeded.
Career
She made her film debut in 1927 in The Red Mill, directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. After several minor roles as an extra, she found work with Mack Sennett, perhaps as one of his Sennett Bathing Beauties, in several comedy short subjects, along with Carole Lombard, who had been a school friend. In 1928, she was voted as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, a yearly list of young actresses nominated by exhibitors based on their box-office appeal.
Eilers was a popular figure in early-1930s Hollywood, known for her high spirits and vivacity. Her films were mostly comedies and crime melodramas such as Quick Millions (1931) with Spencer Tracy and George Raft. She was married for a short time to Hoot Gibson, though the marriage ended in divorce in 1933. By the end of the decade, her popularity had waned, and her subsequent film appearances were few. She made her final film appearance in 1950.
Personal life
She was married four times and had, with her second husband, Harry Joe Brown, one child, a son, Harry Joe Brown Jr. (1934-2006). She lived in a mansion in Beverly Hills, California designed by architect Paul R. Williams.
Death
During her final years, Eilers suffered poor health, and died from a heart attack on January 5, 1978, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 69. She was cremated and her remains were interred in a small niche in the Freedom Mausoleum, Columbarium of Understanding, Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.