1. In 1918, Laurell left the Follies to embark on an acting career.
21 Facts About Kay Laurell
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Kay Laurell appeared in stage productions on Broadway and in vaudeville and made three silent films.
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Kay Laurell died during childbirth at the age of 36 in London.
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Kay Laurell was born Ruth Leslie in 1890 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Kay Laurell left Erie at the age of 16 to pursue a career in show business in New York City.
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Kay Laurell initially found work as a telephone operator before she was hired as an artists' model.
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Kay Laurell made her stage debut in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1914.
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Kay Laurell rose out of the water, flanked by two golden elephants with raised trunks from which water poured.
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In May 1916, Kay Laurell married Winfield Sheehan, the former secretary to Rhinelander Waldo, in London.
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Kay Laurell was again featured in the opening scene, this time posing as "The Spirit of the Allies" atop a lighted, spinning globe.
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Kay Laurell received positive reviews for her acting but would make only one more silent film, Lonely Heart, in 1921.
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Kay Laurell focused mainly on stage work for the remainder of her career.
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Kay Laurell remained with the play for a season before headlining the vaudeville circuit with stock companies in Yonkers and Washington.
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Kay Laurell then co-starred in Nocture, which premiered at the Punch and Judy Theatre in New York City on February 16,1925.
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Kay Laurell later moved to Europe, where she found work in a French stock company in Paris.
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On January 31,1927, Kay Laurell died in London at the age of 36.
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Kay Laurell was cremated and her ashes were buried in London.
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In 1930, the press discovered that Kay Laurell actually died while giving birth to her only child.
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Kay Laurell left her $100,000 estate to Boyle because she was unaware that her son, who was born out of wedlock, could legally inherit her assets.
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Kay Laurell later dropped the matter after discovering that the boy's father, Joseph Whiteside Boyle, had been caring for the child since birth and had no plans to claim Laurell's estate.
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Kay Laurell's mother was never told of her daughter's death as she was dying at the time.