Carmelita Geraghty was an American silent-film actress and painter.
14 Facts About Carmelita Geraghty
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Carmelita Geraghty was born on March 21,1901, in Rushville, Indiana, attended schools in New York, and graduated from Hollywood High School.
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Carmelita Geraghty's father was slow to approve of his daughter's new employment.
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Carmelita Geraghty achieved a measure of success as a Mack Sennett featured player.
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Carmelita Geraghty worked as a continuity clerk before she appeared on film.
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Carmelita Geraghty started work out as an extra in the early 1920s, using a fictitious name until getting her big break.
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Carmelita Geraghty was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1924.
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Carmelita Geraghty soon became a leading actress, including a co-starring role with Virginia Valli in The Pleasure Garden, the first film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Carmelita Geraghty played golfer Jordan Baker in the first film version of The Great Gatsby.
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Carmelita Geraghty has very pretty eyes and obviously would be able to make her acting count for something in a more dramatic vehicle.
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Carmelita Geraghty became a very accomplished artist about ten years after leaving motion pictures.
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Carmelita Geraghty married Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer writer and producer Carey Wilson on May 6,1934, in Beverly Hills, and the marriage ended in 1962 upon his death.
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On July 7,1966, Carmelita Geraghty died of a heart attack at the Lombardy Hotel in Manhattan, aged 65.
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Carmelita Geraghty is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.