Jacqueline Logan

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Jacqueline Logan
Logan in 1922
Born(1902-11-30)November 30, 1902
Corsicana, Texas, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 1983(1983-04-04) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Florida, U.S.
OccupationActress
Years active1921–1931, 1973
Spouses
Ralph James Gillespie
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(m. 1925; div. 1928)​
William Lawrence "Larry" Winston
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(m. 1928; div. 1947)​

Jacqueline Medura Logan (November 30, 1902[1][2] – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and silent film star. Logan was a WAMPAS Baby Star of 1922.

Early life

Logan was born in

El Paso, Colorado and Scottsbluff, Nebraska where she briefly worked as a journalist for the Scottsbluff Republican.[5]

Stage career and Broadway

Logan traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for her health[citation needed] and acted in stock theater there.[6] While there she took a course in journalism from Ford Frick, who later became commissioner of Major League Baseball. Setting out to Chicago, Logan found employment dancing in a stage production of a theater. Her family believed she intended to visit an uncle in the windy city and also attend college. To get the job she lied about her age, and when her uncle found out, he was irate. She was let go from the stage job as a result.[citation needed]

She left Chicago and set out for New York City. Again Logan was untruthful regarding her intentions. With her on her trip to New York was a theatrical troupe. She secured a small role in

Hollywood. Together with the Ziegfeld venture, Logan modeled as a Dobbs Girl in Alfred Cheney Johnston photographs. She also had a part in a Johnny Hines' comedy short.[citation needed] Her other Broadway credits included Two Strange Women (1933) and Merrily We Roll Along (1934).[7]

Motion pictures

Logan was awarded a screen test with the then unknown actor

Molly O'
 (1921).

Publicity photo of Logan from The Blue Book of the Screen by Ruth Wing (1923)

Other features she starred in during the early 1920s include

Lon Chaney Sr., and William Powell. The House of Youth (1924) is described as her "first starring vehicle."[8]

In 1926, Logan made Footloose Widows with Louise Fazenda and The Blood Ship in 1927 with Richard Arlen. Other prominent leading men whom the actress worked with were Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, and Antonio Moreno.

Logan in the trailer for the 1927 silent epic The King of Kings

Logan was selected by

Cecil B. De Mille for the role of Mary Magdalene in the classic The King of Kings (1927).[9]
The part was much sought after by actresses of the era. The movie broke records for audience attendance. It was shown somewhere in the world each day for decades after its release. When talking pictures began, Logan's voice was recorded to accompany her acting part in the original silent film.

The actress of silent films was largely unsuccessful in the new medium of

talkies. In an early musical, The Show of Shows (1929), Logan was a member of an all-star cast. This followed her work in some early and profitable sound films for Columbia Pictures
.

Writer and director of films

Logan was in England for a time to do stage work such as Smoky Cell. This gained for her some good reviews. After completing the English film The Middle Watch, she was awarded a Command Performance. British International Pictures signed her to write and direct. She wrote Knock-Out (1931) and wrote and directed Strictly Business (1931). Both were successful movies.

The new writer/director found herself less in demand behind the camera when she returned to Hollywood. Columbia Pictures production chief Harry Cohn was complimentary of her work but unwilling to sign a female director.

Logan retired from films entirely after her marriage in 1934. Just prior to this she was part of several Broadway plays like Merrily We Roll Along and Two Strange Women.

Later years

Jacqueline Logan was married three times.[10] Her first marriage was to Ralph James Gillespie, also referred to as Robert Gillespie,[11][12] on June 4, 1925.[13] Logan filed for divorce in 1927, claiming that Gillespie kicked her and called her dumb.

Five months later, Logan eloped to

interlocutory decree expired. Logan's divorce from Gillespie became final in March 1928, and she married Winston in June of that year.[14]

After divorcing Winston in 1947, Logan resided in Westchester County, New York into the late 1960s. She spent her winters in Florida where she visited friends such as Lila Lee and Dorothy Dalton, both former actresses. The remainder of the year she resided in Bedford Hills, New York with her prize Great Dane from the Lina Basquette Kennels.

Death

Logan, at age 80, died in Melbourne, Florida in 1983. Her gravesite is in Greenwood Cemetery in Decatur, Illinois.[3]

Filmography

References

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  5. ^ "Even a Movie Star Can't Always Get an Airplane". Morning World-Herald. Omaha. March 19, 1926.
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  7. ^ a b "("Jacqueline Logan" search results)". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  8. ^ ""House of Youth" Done". Moving Picture World. 69: 438. Jul–Aug 1924 – via Media History Digital Library.
  9. ^ "Christ's Life Filmed: 'King of Kings' Being Produced with Reverence and Sincerity by C. B. DeMille". The New York Times. November 21, 1926. p. 183. Retrieved August 15, 2018.
  10. ISBN 9780786407569
    – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "Billboard". Billboard Publications. August 19, 1928 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ Hadden, Briton (August 19, 1928). "Time". Time Incorporated – via Google Books.
  13. ^ "Motion Picture Classic". August 19, 1924 – via Google Books.
  14. ISBN 9781108645652
    – via Google Books.
Bibliography
  • Whatever Became Of...? Vol. II, pages 156-157 by Richard Lamparski, 1968, IMDB.com Webpage.

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