1. Jean Acker was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino.
15 Facts About Jean Acker
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Jean Acker was born Harriet Ackers on October 23,1892 in Trenton, New Jersey to Joseph and Margaret Ackers.
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Jean Acker's parents divorced, and her father remarried to Eleanor Bruseren in 1906.
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Jean Acker's father managed the Casino Bowling Alley and The Ritz Restaurant, and later owned the Boston Shoe Store on Valley Street.
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Jean Acker managed several bowling alleys in the Philadelphia area.
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Jean Acker attended St Mary's Seminary in Springfield, New Jersey for a time.
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Jean Acker performed in vaudeville until she moved to California in 1919.
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Jean Acker appeared in numerous films during the 1910s and 1920s, but by the early 1930s, she began appearing in small, mostly uncredited film roles.
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Jean Acker made her last on-screen appearance in the 1955 film How to Be Very, Very Popular, opposite Betty Grable.
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Jean Acker quickly had regrets and locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night.
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Jean Acker then sued Valentino for the legal right to call herself Mrs Rudolph Valentino.
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Jean Acker wrote a popular song about him soon after he died called "We Will Meet at the End of the Trail".
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Jean Acker met Chloe Carter, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, who was the first wife of film composer Harry Ruby.
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Jean Acker remained with Carter for the rest of her life.
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Jean Acker died of natural causes in 1978 at the age of 85, and is buried next to Carter at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.