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Mercedes Dagmar Godowsky (November 24, 1897 – February 13, 1975) was an American silent film actress.
Jul 28, 2017 · Dagmar Godowsky. Once a famous beauty, by the late 1950s Dagmar Godowsky found herself subsisting on caviar, cake, and tales of the past. Typecast as a vamp in the silent-screen era of the early 1920s, she had “hissed her way through a thousand scenes.”
Dagmar Godowsky was born on 24 November 1897 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for The Story Without a Name (1924), In Borrowed Plumes (1926) and Virtuous Liars (1924).
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Dagmar Godowsky passed away on February 13, 1975 in New York City. She was buried at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Dagmar was married twice, well, kind of. In 1921, she wed actor Frank Mayo in Tijuana. Unfortunately, Frankie boy was already married to another actress named Anna Luther.
Aug 3, 2017 · In the nineteen fifties, aspiring playwright, Sanford Dody, met with the silent film vamp Dagmar Godowsky. The daughter of a famous pianist and party host, this retired film siren was able to lure Dody into ghostwriting her memoir.
Lithuanian-born actress. Born Nov 24, 1897, in Vilna, Lithuania; died Feb 13, 1975, in NYC; sister of Leo Godowsky (inventor of Kodachrome film); m. Frank Mayo, 1921 (annulled 1928); m. once more.
A seedy-looking firing squad aimed its rifles at Dagmar Godowsky. Her father, Pianist Leopold Godowsky, turned to Marie Dressier and said: “Tell me the truth. Marie, do you think Dagmar has a...
