1. Lillian Lorraine was an American stage and screen actress of the 1910s and 1920s, and a prominent Ziegfeld Girl in the Broadway revues Ziegfeld Follies during the 1910s.
13 Facts About Lillian Lorraine
1. 2.
Lillian Lorraine's father was a miner whose roots were in St Louis.
3.
Lillian Lorraine began her career on stage in 1906, aged 12 or 14.
4.
Lillian Lorraine spent the next several years promoting her career, rocketing her into an ascendance which made her one of the most popular attractions in his Follies.
5.
Lillian Lorraine starred in many annual productions of The Ziegfeld Follies as well as the 1912 Broadway musical Over the River.
6.
Lillian Lorraine ventured into motion pictures with limited success, appearing in about ten films between 1912 and 1922, including the serial Neal of the Navy with William Courtleigh, Jr.
7.
Lillian Lorraine's fame began waning in the 1920s and she worked for a period in vaudeville.
8.
Lillian Lorraine's personal life earned her more notoriety than either her talent or her beauty, and she was a staple in newspapers of the day with accounts of her latest turbulent romance or feuds with rival stars such as Fanny Brice and Sophie Tucker.
9.
Ten days later, Lillian Lorraine announced that the marriage had been a mistake and that the couple was "incompatible" due to her career.
10.
Three months later, Lillian Lorraine filed to have the marriage annulled after claiming that Gresheimer misrepresented himself.
11.
Lillian Lorraine disappeared from public view in 1941, sometimes going by her mother's purported maiden name, Mary Ann Brennan.
12.
Lillian Lorraine died on April 17,1955, in New York City.
13.
Lillian Lorraine initially was buried in a pauper's grave in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York.