14 Facts About Allyn King

Allyn S King was an American stage and film actress and singer who began her career in vaudeville, and later as a Ziegfeld Follies performer.

The year following her birth, the King family was living in Winston where her father was a medical student.

Allen Allyn King was from Louisiana and, after receiving his degree in the early 1900s, returned to his home state to set up a medical practice in Morgan City.

Oliver later told police that Dr Allyn King had allegedly taken advantage of his sister.

Allyn King would remain with Ziegfeld for five seasons before achieving a modicum of success on Broadway in the early 1920s.

Allyn King played Alicia Bonner in the 1920 Avery Hopwood hit comedy Ladies' Night that had a run of 360 performances at the Eltinge Theatre on 42nd Street and Louise Endicott in the successful 1924 William LeBaron and Con Conrad musical comedy Moonlight over its 174 run at Longacre Theatre.

Allyn King toured in the 1925 play Seduction, a production that featured dancing harem girls.

Allyn King appeared in at least one silent film, The Fighting Blade, in which she played Charlotte Musgrove, the sister of Thomsine, whose lover, Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, had come to England to serve in Oliver Cromwell's army.

In 1927, Allyn King almost died after putting herself on a near-starvation diet compounded with diet pills in an attempt to maintain the boyish figure in vogue at the time.

Allyn King spent nearly two years recovering at a sanitarium before leaving to live with an aunt in New York City.

In 1924, Allyn King was reported to be engaged to Carl Wiedemann, a wealthy brewer from Newport, Kentucky and owner of the racehorse In Memoriam.

On March 29,1930, Allyn King leaped from her aunt's fifth-story, New York City apartment to a courtyard below.

Allyn King had left behind a note lamenting the fact that she would never return to Broadway.

Allyn King survived the fall with broken limbs and a fractured skull that her doctors were confident she could recover from.