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Jigee Viertel (born Virginia Lee Ray; September 30, 1915 – January 31, 1960) was an actress in early Hollywood pictures and later the wife of screenwriters Budd Schulberg and Peter Viertel. She was active in early Hollywood socialist organizing and later in life was linked to the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ernest Hemingway.
The Life Summary of Jigee. When Jigee Viertel was born on 3 September 1915, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Robert M Ray Jr, was 42 and her mother, Mazie Lauth, was 23. She married Budd Wilson Schulberg on 31 December 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Peter Viertel, Budd Wilson Schulberg
Four recently discovered love letters reveal the players in this ménage à quatre: Ernest Hemingway, fresh from completing Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), his first novel in 10 years; his wife, Mary; Jigee Viertel (née Virginia Ray of Pittsburgh); and Viertel’s husband, Peter, also a writer, who later penned a memoir of ...
An accomplished actress, a passionate anti-Nazi activist, and a gifted prose stylist in her fifth (sixth?) language, Viertel—herself an early harbinger of the mass migration—embodied the...
Nov 6, 2007 · Peter Viertel, the novelist, memoirist and screenwriter best known for his books chronicling episodes in the lives of Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, has died. He was 86. Viertel died of...
Dec 21, 2007 · Tom Vallance. Peter Viertel, screen-writer and novelist: born Dresden, Germany 16 November 1920; married first Jigee Ray (died 1960; one daughter; marriage dissolved), secondly 1960 Deborah...
Jigee Viertel was small, vivacious, sexy, and promiscuous; vibrant, articulate, and well read; eighteen years younger than Hemingway and very competitive with all women. She was a literary groupie and had been married to the author Budd Schulberg. Though not a writer herself, she nourished other talents.
