1. Jetta Goudal was a Dutch-American actress, successful in Hollywood films of the silent film era.
12 Facts About Jetta Goudal
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Jetta Goudal's parents were both Jewish, and her father was Orthodox.
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Jetta Goudal had an older sister, Bertha, and a younger brother, Willem, who died when he was 4 months old in 1896.
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Jetta Goudal's father remarried in 1929 to Rosette Citroen.
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Jetta Goudal first appeared on Broadway in 1921, using the stage name Jetta Goudal.
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Jetta Goudal quickly earned praise for her film work, especially for her performance in 1925's Salome of the Tenements, a currently lost film based on the Anzia Yezierska novel about life in New York's Jewish Lower East Side.
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Jetta Goudal appeared in several highly successful and acclaimed films for DeMille and became one of the top box-office draws of the late 1920s.
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DeMille later claimed that Jetta Goudal was so difficult to work with that he eventually fired her and cancelled their contract.
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Jetta Goudal filed a lawsuit for breach of contract against him and DeMille Pictures Corporation.
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Jetta Goudal appeared in 1928's The Cardboard Lover, produced by William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies.
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Jetta Goudal is interred next to her husband in a private room at the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of the Angels, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Jetta Goudal lost nearly all her relatives in the Holocaust.