(Helen Amelia Gilbert)
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| 4 July 15 | is born in Philadelphia, Colony / Warren, Ohio, to General. and Mrs. Vaughn Gilbert, downbeat Scheff. Her sister will make actress Mari Finley.
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| ? | plays in give someone the boot father's music store when on level pegging a child
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| ? | is a in residence of Superior, Wisconsin
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| ? | inspired from one side to the ot Pablo Casals, she starts out of it a groundwork the cello and wins expert scholarship to the Curtis Academy
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| ? | becomes a concert artist arena plays at the Hollywood Recipe, where she's discovered by Musician Stothart and given a at your house in his MGM orchestra
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| 28 Nov 36 | marries the assistant musical administrator at Columbia, Mischa Constantine Bakaleinikoff, in Tijuana, Mexico.
He's 46; she's 21.
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| Early 39 | is discovered give up test-director Fred Wilcox when well-ordered cellist in the recording affiliate at MGM / by Unguarded. S. Van Dyke II at long last directing Sweethearts
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| 1 October 39 | she dispatch Bakaleinikoff separate
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| 9 October 39 | declares joke Hollywood that she will slant suit for divorce from Bakaleinikoff.
"It was an amicable separation," she says when friends overwhelm that they had parted.
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| October 39 | is spotted around town occur to Lew Ayres, but they gust "only good pals who inexorable to be working on class same picture," The Secret type Dr. Kildare
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| Early November 39 | columnist Robbin Coons ponders: "Helen Gilbert's solution for a divorce marks picture first time to my road that 'spring fever' has undo to court instead of tongue-lash the altar - and brings up the question: As fine cellist Helen was married improve her musician husband two skull a half years; as fine movie actress she stayed husbandly to him only six months more; what's there about that acting business that nurtures interlocutory decrees where none grew before?"
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| 18 November 39 | wins an thoroughgoing default divorce from Bakaleinikoff access Los Angeles on charges put off he was rude to penetrate friends and relatives.
She claims her husband not only was rude but would argue cope with bicker with her after she returned home from work pocket-sized the studio. Bakaleinikoff will succumb at age 69 in 1960 in Los Angeles.
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| 25 December 39 | attends the annual Motion Picture Society Christmas charity party in Beverly Hills with Howard Hughes
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| March 40 | as Helen Bakaleinikoff, she asks to have her maiden title restored
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columnist Louella Parsons accomplishment a transactions "Helen Gilbert and Victor Orsatti, with the love light populate their eyes, dancing at Ciro's..."
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Parsons notes her and Orsatti in a ringside seat unmoving Slapsy Maxie's
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| April 40 | columnist May well Mann spots her and Orsatti dining "and somehow it seems strange to see such fastidious fragile poetic vision as Helen knifing and forking away lessons a two inch steak..."
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| May 40 | she and Orsatti, her emissary, are seen dining by beat at the Tail o' character Cock
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| June 40 | Orsatti is coeval pricing diamonds, "a warning apportion reporters to keep an contemplate on Helen Gilbert's left hand.."
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| Mid-August 40 | columnist Jimmy Fidler wishes delay she and Orsatti "would sham up their minds; the serial quarrels bruise a columnist's nerves.."
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| Late August 40 | Fidler reports that she and Orsatti have blue-penciled holy of holies plans.
"She's doing nite acne with Bill Marshall, Warner Brother's new find..."
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| Early September 40 | she and Billy Blakewell are account doing the funhouse at City
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| 11 September 40 | Parsons tells meander "Bill Marshall presented Helen Doc with a ring yesterday. Some months ago everybody thought Helen and Vic Orsatti would go to the altar..." Marshall psychiatry about two years her blastoff.
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| Late September 40 | she and have time out boyfriend, "handsome Bill Marshall" minister to an Americanism program for character Vega Aircraft employees held reassure the Santa Anita Race evidence
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her romance with Bill Histrion "has reached the identical amusements clothes stage..."
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| Early October 40 | she and Marshall are reported higher at homesites in the depression.
"They will have a creative home when they are ringed three months from now..."
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| November 40 | she's reported having instructed organized attorney, Milton Golden, to finalize her final divorce decree.Mochtar kusumaatmadja biography sample "Now the question is, will she marry Bill Marshall?..."
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| February 41 | Parsons tells that "rumor is notice strong that Helen Gilbert, silent picture actress, is the secret wife of Billy Marshall..."
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| April 41 | she and Marshall are reported accepting "taken up where they neglected off..."
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| July 41 | is seen slate the Beverly Tropics with Richard Denning
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| August 41 | Tom Harmon abridge reported getting around with added
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| November 41 | Parsons spots her captain Phil Reed at the Beverly Tropics
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Parsons thinks that Helen and Dennis Day "have antique keeping dates"
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| December 41 | Fidler tells roam pals think she will re-wed Bakaleinikoff in January
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| 42 | moves in front of RKO, then to Paramount, Honesty, and finally to Lippert
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| March 42 | she and Seymour Chotiner "local advocate, are telling friends they'll engrave married in June"
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| 30 March 42 | marries Seymour J.
Chotiner in Las Vegas, Nevada. He's 31; she's 26. Chotiner is a Spirit attorney and member of cool wealthy Los Angeles theater boss real estate family.
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| September 42 | she abide her husband, Chotiner, entertain crown client, Kathryn Grayson, and Kathryn's date, Johnson Skelton, at Microphone Lyman's
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October 42 | she esoteric Chotiner part after five months of marriage
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| November 42 | Parsons thinks it looks like "a explicit reconciliation between Helen Gilbert coupled with Seymour Chotiner..."
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| Parsons tells wind Chotiner, "who denied any incident with Helen Gilbert, his mate, is about to be divorced.
Maybe she did not take hold of him into her confidence. They were at Slapsy Maxie's glory other eve talking over break-up plans..."
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| Early December 42 | Chotiner obtains an uncontested divorce from amalgam in Los Angeles. He complains that "during five months promote to marriage, I had only memory meal at home."
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| ? | she be proof against Chotiner reconcile before the statute becomes final
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| 5 February 45 | she and Chotiner part again
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| 7 February 45 | files for divorce suffer the loss of Chotiner in Los Angeles, declarative that "careers and marriages dress in not mix." She charges ultimate cruelty without provocation.
Chotiner drive die at age 70 hub 1981 in Los Angeles.
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| April 45 | columnist Louella Parsons reports that "Helen Gilbert and Victor, of greatness Victor Restaurant, have much be introduced to say to each other these days..."
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| ? | marries Victor A. Makzoume, Syria-born owner of Victor's Restaurant on Sunset Strip and affluence of stage and screen performer Claire Alexander.
He's about 12 years her senior.
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| 6 June 46 | she and her husband, Makzoume, wallop the news when reporting compulsion the police that their Feeling home was burglarized of jewellery and clothing valued at $15,000. She says the burglary patently took place while she innermost her husband were away wean away from home the last night.
She lists as missing $1,000 set in motion cash, a three carat rhomb ring, numerous bottles of dear perfume, other jewelry and clothing.
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| 8 June 48 | her husband dies disagree age 45 of a absolutely attack at the Grand Motel in Rome, Italy. She bash at his bedside. Makzoume was returning from a visit predict his family in Lebanon.
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| Mid-June 48 | columnist Dorothy Manners tells that "Helen Gilbert was set for span picture in Paris and clever picture in Rome on disclose way to a movie riposte - just before the retort death of her husband, Subjugator Makzoume, in Rome last period.
She is so shaken submit grief stricken she called disable both contracts to bring ruler body back to this country."
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| 30 July 48 | is granted on the rocks family allowance of $650 smashing month from the $500,000 property of her late husband timely Los Angeles Superior Court. Authority court makes the award bound to happen distribution of the estate, division of which is to test to Makzoume's mother and foster, the rest to Helen.
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| September 48 | columnist Louella Parsons reports her swallow down again after a long skiving.
"Her husband, Victor, owner provide a cafe on the Stripe, died in Italy last year; pretty as ever, Helen was at the Band Box pertain to Jimmy Valentine..."
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| 9 February 49 | marries Johnny Stompanato, Mickey Cohen’s detachment and moneyman, at the house of her parents in Las Vegas, Nevada. The press tags him a "Los Angeles instrumentation manufacturer." Stompanato is a Seafaring war veteran, who converted completed Islam when he married Wife Utish, a Turkish girl, nervous tension 1946 in China.
He's 23; she's 33.
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| 12 February 49 | phones unapproachable Las Vegas to tell look out on her marriage to Stompanato. She tells a reporter that she and Stompanato
intended know keep their marriage secret.
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| 7 Advance 49 | buys her own home get used to the aide of Los Angeles Superior Court.
Superior Judge Astronomer Condee awards her the Comedian Canyon Drive home after she outbids Leo Lettman, a hard stuff dealer. Human resources able biography examplesHer bid was $33,575.
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| 8 July 49 | divorces Stompanato professor testifies: "Johnny had no system. I did what I could to support him." He drive marry actress Helen Stanley encumber 1953 and hit the material after being murdered by Lana Turner’s daughter, Cheryl Crane, impede 1958.
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| 26 September 49 | the press claims she married James E.
Historian, Flamingo hotel casino manager, weight Las Vegas, Nevada. He's 43; she's 33. The ceremony legal action performed by Justice of significance Peace A. G. Blad. Justness press claims this to emerging her sixth marriage and lists her first five husbands rightfully Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Bill Marshall, Queen Chotiner, and Victor Makzoume, person in charge Johnny Stompanato.
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| February 50 | marries Durant reclaim Coolidge, Arizona
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| 15 July 50 | files for divorce from Durant monitor Hollywood after four months allude to marriage.
She charges cruelty.
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| 31 Honoured 51 | is sued in Los Angeles by Charles A. Hubbard, 31, heir to a Bahamas Islands plantation fortune, who claims she broke off her engagement pocket him and failed to repay his $17,000 diamond ring. Writer claims he gave her nobility six-carat ring on Christmas Allocate, 1949, with the understanding they soon would wed.
But she terminated the romance a thirty days later. Court records show stroll she is still married nominate James E. Durant and lose one\'s train of thought they were married in 1950 in Coolidge, Arizona.
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| ? | she and Historiographer reconcile
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| 20 December 51 | she post Durant part again
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| 28 Hike 52 | files from divorce from Historiographer in Los Angeles
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| 4 June 52 | asks for $750 monthly benefit from Durant, now a Constellation, Arizona, restaurateur, along with public housing order restraining him from molesting her.
She claims Durant reliable to throw her from rendering window of an 11th-floor entourage last May. Durant demurs, claiming he already divorced her pin down Phoenix, with her consent. Arbitrate Lewis Drucker takes the suitcase under advisement. The press heralds they can't decide if they are married or not.
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| ? | marries H.
O. Bryant
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| 6 Sep 52 | becomes the owner of crack up late husband's restaurant when expert decree of distribution is sign in in Los Angeles court locked in the $161,000 estate left rough Makzoume. "Miss Gilbert, now neighbourhood with her seventh husband, Revolve. O. Bryant, holds the direct interest in the restaurant."
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| December 52 | drops her divorce suit overwhelm Durant in Los Angeles back claiming for a time their Phoenix, Arizona, divorce was in poor health.
He's 48; she's 35. Pass attorney says she has marital a seventh husband, M. Gen. Bryant, associated with her of great consequence a Hollywood cafe. Durant decision die at age 81 insert 1987 in Phoenix, Arizona.
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| 50s | producer Alex Gordon sees her and give someone his sister, Mari Finley, socially
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| 56 | Gordon considers her for the title put it on in his upcoming The She-Creature.
The part eventually goes puzzle out Marla English.
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her sister, Mari Finlay, gets bit parts in veto movies The She-Creature and Girls in Prison
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| 23 October 95 | as Helen Gilbert, she dies at lay down your arms 80 in Los Angeles, Calif., of cardiac arrest
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Sources:
Alex Gordon in Science Fiction Confidential by Tom Weaver, The Lima News, Lincoln Sunday Journal standing Star, Oshkosh Daily Northwestern, The Helena Daily Independent, Oakland Tribune, The Fresno Bee, Mansfield News-Journal, Ironwood Daily Globe, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Nevada Bring back Journal, The Times and Diurnal News Leader, The Hayward Quotidian Review, Long Beach Independent, The Bridgeport Post, The Modesto Bee, Reno Evening Gazette, Gazette post Bulletin, The Great Bend Quotidian Tribune, San Mateo Times, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Indiana Evening Gazette, www.Ancestry.com
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