This Is the Night
1932
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Apr 12, 2014 · Born Liliane Marie Madeleine Carré in Blaye near Bordeux on July 10th of either 1901 or rather 1904, she appeared in dancing revues in the Grand Nation`s capitol as early as age 15. Of purported Iberian ancestry she started her career with the stage name of Damita del Rojo.
Mar 17, 2022 · Seven years later Damita made the same journey across the Atlantic on the SS Paris. Now a huge star thanks to a succession of femme fatale roles, she had been in England to film Brewster’s Millions and would be first down the gangplank, indulging and ignoring the shouts of the photographers as she wished.
In 1921 she won a beauty contest and was offered her first acting role. She appeared in more than a dozen silent films made in Europe. Lili married Hungarian director Michael Curtiz in 1925. They divorced just a year later. Producer Samuel Goldwyn saw Lili and offered her a part in the 1928 romantic adventure The Rescue.
Dec 13, 2022 · M.M. Cloutier. Special to the Daily News. It was the middle of an April night in 1970 when former Hollywood starlet and seasonal resident Lili Damita was awakened by her telephone ringing. He’s...
Tempers flared, and years later Flynn recalled that "Only by great nimbleness of foot did I avoid a weekly fractured skull." Both Flynn and Damita broke their marriage vows, and some in Hollywood believed that both actors were bisexual.
After that, her career was almost over as she continued to make only a few other movies over the next few years. In 1935, she married a hell raiser by the name of Errol Flynn. This rocky tempestuous union lasted until 1942.
Nothing is known about how long Flynn or Stone may have survived after their capture, and neither was seen again. Lily Damita poured tremendous effort and resources into finding her son, but after fourteen years without any evidence of his survival, he was declared legally dead in 1984.
