Verree Teasdale
Verree Teasdale ( born March 15, 1903 in Spokane, Washington; † 17 February 1987 in Culver City, California ) was an American actress.
Life and career
Verree Teasdale attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. After attending a drama school she gave in 1924, her debut on Broadway and appeared there regularly until 1932. She played among others in the play The Constant Wife at the side of Ethel Barrymore. In the Hollywood of the 1930s Teasdale made numerous films, often in the second lead role. Mostly they played smart and self-assured high-society ladies or the rival of the main character for the love of a man. She was seen on the side of Kay Francis as ambitious mistress of Senators in First Lady and played a betrayed wife in her last film Come, stay with me. In addition, Teasdale played the role of Amazon queen Hippolyte in Max Reinhardt's film version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. After 27 films, she moved back in 1941 from the film business. Later Teasdale worked in radio and designed in their spare costumes.
Verree Teasdale was related to the writer Edith Wharton. Her first marriage with William J. O'Neal between 1927 and 1933 ended in divorce. In 1935 she married actor Adolphe Menjou, with whom she remained married until his death in 1963 and appeared together in two films. You Menjou and had a child. Veree Teasdale died a month before her 84th birthday, and was buried next to her second husband at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.