16 Facts About Carmel Myers

Carmel Myers was an American actress who achieved her greatest successes in silent film.

Carmel Myers had an older brother, Zion, and she was a cousin of director Mark Sandrich and photographer Ruth Harriet Louise.

Carmel Myers's father was active in campaigns for women's suffrage, abolition of capital punishment, and zionism.

Carmel Myers continued her education at a school for young actors.

Carmel Myers helped her brother become a writer and director in Hollywood.

Carmel Myers left for New York City, where she acted mainly in theater for the next two years.

Carmel Myers was signed by Universal, where she emerged as a popular actress in vamp roles.

Carmel Myers appeared in Four Walls and Dream of Love, both with Joan Crawford in 1928; and in The Show of Shows, a showcase of popular contemporary film actors.

Carmel Myers had a fairly successful sound career, mostly in supporting roles, perhaps due to her image as a vamp rather than as a sympathetic heroine.

In 1939, Carmel Myers performed for 13 weeks on the Resinol radio program that was broadcast twice weekly from station KHJ and carried on the Don Lee Network.

In 1951, Myers had a celebrity interview TV program, The Carmel Myers Show, on ABC.

In 1976, Carmel Myers was one of the very few silent stars who were cast in Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, a comedy featuring cameos by dozens of Hollywood stars of the past.

On October 30,1951, Myers married Paramount Pictures executive Alfred W Schwalberg in Brooklyn.

Carmel Myers died of a heart attack on November 9,1980, in Los Angeles Medical Center at the age of 81.

Carmel Myers was buried near her parents at Home of Peace Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

Carmel Myers's epitaph reads "L'Chaim", which in English translates to "To life".