The Bad and the Beautiful
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May Irene McAvoy [citation needed] (September 8, 1899 – April 26, 1984) [1] was an American actress who worked mainly during the silent-film era. Some of her major roles are Laura Pennington in The Enchanted Cottage, Esther in Ben-Hur, and Mary Dale in The Jazz Singer.
May McAvoy. Actress: The Jazz Singer. Silent-screen star May McAvoy was born in an upscale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel now stands.
Jul 26, 2013 · May McAvoy died in quiet retirement on April 26, 1984 from the side effects of a heart attack suffered the previous year. Petite at only four feet, eleven inches tall, weighing in at only eighty-nine pounds, the silent movie star May McAvoy never let her small stature interfere with her professional ambitions...
May McAvoy. Actress: The Jazz Singer. Silent-screen star May McAvoy was born in an upscale area of New York City. Her well-to-do family owned and operated a large livery stable situated where the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel now stands.
American star of the silent-film era . Name variations: Mae McAvoy. Born on September 18, 1901, in New York City; died after a heart attack on April 26, 1984, in Sherman Oaks, California; daughter of a livery-stable owner; married Maurice G. Cleary (a United Artists and Lockheed Aircraft executive), in 1929 (divorced); children: Patrick Cleary.
May 3, 1984 · Miss McAvoy was said to be one of the Hollywood stars who failed to make the transition from silent films to talkies. She often denied, however, that her contract with Warner Brothers was dropped...
May 2, 1984 · LOS ANGELES (AP) May McAvoy. the film actress whose career bridged the era of the silent screen and the talkies with her role in 1927’s "The Jazz Singer," has died at the age of 82. Often the wide-eyed, innocent heroine of films of the 19205, and once described by the poet Carl Sandburg as “a star-eyed goddess" Miss McAvoy died of natural ...
May McAvoy: star of ‘The Jazz Singer’ and ‘Ben Hur’. Frank McNally. Fri Oct 06 2017 - 00:01. Most people could still identify Al Jolson as the main star of The Jazz Singer, the film that ...
May 1, 1984 · LOS ANGELES -- Silent screen star May McAvoy, Al Jolson's leading lady in the landmark movie 'The Jazz Singer' and a star in some of Hollywood's first monumental films, has died at age 84, it...
May McAvoy was one of the few actresses in Hollywood to have had a most interesting and varied career. Bucking the system, she had a successful career freelancing, working with nearly every studio and some of the best directors in Hollywood. May was born September 18, 1901 in New York at the family brownstone on 41st Street and Park Avenue.
