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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.
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- Virginia Lee Ray, September 30, 1915, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- actress
- January 31, 1960 (aged 44), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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.
- Female
- 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 ...
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...
Reputedly dependent on alcohol and sleeping medication, Viertel woke one night in her Los Angeles home and while in the bathroom lit a cigarette that she then dropped inadvertently into the pocket of her dressing gown, causing her immolation. She died from the burns she suffered a month later. Nickname: Jigee.
- Actress
- September 3, 1915
- Virginia Ray
- January 31, 1960
HEMINGWAY WROTE THESE four newly discovered love letters to Jigee Viertel, wife of the novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel, in December 1949 and January 1950. His infatuation had begun weeks earlier, when Jigee, Hemingway, and his fourth wife, Mary, crossed the Atlantic on the Ile de France.
Peter Viertel Screenwriter. Viertel has said in interviews that his screenwriting work was primarily for income so that he could continue to write novels. Viertel was married twice, his first wife was Virginia Ray "Jigee" Schulberg, the former wife of Hollywood writer Budd Schulberg.
