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After returning to Los Angeles, Semon was admitted to a sanatorium in Victorville, California, where on October 8, 1928—at the age of 39—he died of pneumonia and tuberculosis. [10] His wife Dorothy Dwan was reported to be at his bedside when he died. [8]
He married his leading lady, Dorothy Dwan, who played Dorothy, just before the film's release. Unfortunately, it was not a success and effectively killed Semon's career, which was already on the skids.
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- West Point, Mississippi, USA
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Oct 8, 2015 · In 1909, he married Augusta Rosenbaum, to the dismay of her distinguished German-Jewish family. Within a few years, he seems to have relocated to New York, where Semon worked as a cartoonist for the New York Sun and the New York Morning Telegraph, among other papers.
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He married his leading lady, Dorothy Dwan, who played Dorothy, just before the film's release. Unfortunately, it was not a success and effectively killed Semon's career, which was already on the skids. He died a few years later.
- July 16, 1889
- October 8, 1928
They were married and she became his leading lady in many of his silent films, including the role of Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" (1925). Semon suffered a nervous breakdown several months...
American silent film comedian whose hugely successful career disappeared virtually overnight, Larry Semon was the son of a traveling vaudeville magician, Zera the Great. He grew up in show business and was trained in stage comedy and acrobatics.
Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 16 July 1889, Lawrence “Larry” Semon rose to considerable fame as a silent film actor and director during the 1920s. While today his movies are difficult to find and his name has been virtually erased from American film history, during the early years of cinema he rivaled Charlie Chaplin in […]
