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Lili Damita is a Actor French born on 9 july 1904 at Blaye (France)

Lili Damita

Lili Damita
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Birth name Liliane Marie-Madeleine Carré
Nationality France
Birth 9 july 1904 at Blaye (France)
Death 21 march 1994 (at 89 years) at Palm Beach (USA)

Lili Damita (10 July 1904 – 21 March 1994) was a French-American actress and singer who appeared in 33 films between 1922 and 1937.

Biography

In 1935, she married a virtual unknown who would become Hollywood's biggest box office attraction, Errol Flynn, with whom she had a son, Sean Flynn (born 1941). Following the marriage, she retired from the screen. The couple divorced in 1942. (Barbara Hershey portrayed Damita in the TV film My Wicked, Wicked Ways [1985] based on Errol Flynn's autobiography.) While living in Palm Beach, Florida, Damita married Allen Loomis, a retired Fort Dodge, Iowa dairy owner, and spent part of each year living there.

During the Cambodian Civil War (Khmer Rouge Reign), her son Sean Flynn was working as a freelance photo journalist under contract to Time magazine when he and fellow journalist Dana Stone went missing on the road south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 6 April 1970. Although Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, he was never found, and in 1984 he was declared legally dead. DNA testing was conducted on remains found in Cambodia and turned over to the U.S. authorities there in March 2010. However, the results, released 30 June 2010 by JPAC, showed the remains were not those of Sean Flynn.

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Filmography of Lili Damita (28 films)

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Actress

That's Entertainment!, 2h15
Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities, Musical films, Documentary films about films
Actors Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Roles (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating77% 3.89473.89473.89473.89473.8947
Cette nostalgique leçon d'histoire recèle les trésors cachés des plus grandes comédies musicales de la MGM ainsi que de nombreux autres extraits merveilleux mais moins célèbres, avec Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante, Eleanor Powell et même Clark Gable chantant et dansant. « Il était une fois Hollywood » est une véritable gourmandise pour cinéphiles et amateurs de comédies musicales.
Escadrille of Chance, 1h30
Directed by Henri Calef
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Lili Damita, André Luguet, Ginette Gaubert, Simone Héliard, Jaque-Catelain, Michel André
Roles Edwige

Une riche Américaine divorcée et qui s'ennuie, vient au Maroc pour y revoir un brillant pilote qu'elle retrouve marié. Elle a comme secrétaire un autre aviateur qu'un terrible accident a dégouté à jamais de voler. Ce dernier s'emploie a contrarier l'idylle entre les jeunes gens et finit par conquérir le cœur de sa patronne.
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle, 19minutes
Origin USA
Actors Buddy Rogers, Robert Armstrong, Lili Damita, Vince Barnett, Marion Davies, Jack Duffy
Roles Lili Damita (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0464053.0464053.0464053.0464053.046405
Frisco Kid
Frisco Kid (1935)
, 1h17
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ricardo Cortez, Lili Damita, Donald Woods, Barton MacLane
Roles Belle Morra
Rating62% 3.1001453.1001453.1001453.1001453.100145
In San Francisco in the 1850s, a city where gold fever has left shipowners short-handed, Bat Morgan, a sailor come ashore is robbed and nearly shanghaied aboard another ship. Managing to escape, he sticks around town to pay back those responsible and then to take a cut in the action in the vice district. Organizing the various gambling houses (and other forms of vice implied but, for Code reasons, not explicitly stated) into a consolidated enterprise in alliance with a corrupt city boss, Jim Dailey, he comes into conflict with a crusading newspaper, run by Jean Barrat, the daughter of the late murdered publisher, and Charles Ford, the idealistic editor to whom Jean is all but engaged.
A Man Has Been Stolen, 1h42
Directed by Max Ophüls, Ralph Baum
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Lili Damita, Lucien Callamand, Fernand Fabre, Robert Goupil, Pierre Labry, Raoul Marco
Roles Annette
Rating62% 3.1123453.1123453.1123453.1123453.112345
Un homme d'affaires enlevé tombe amoureux de sa geôlière.
One Hour with You, 1h20
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Josephine Dunn
Rating70% 3.5417453.5417453.5417453.5417453.541745
Parisian doctor Andre Bertier (Maurice Chevalier) is faithful to his loving wife, Colette (Jeanette MacDonald), much to the surprise of his lovely female patients. But when Colette's best friend Mitzi Olivier (Genevieve Tobin) insists upon being treated by Dr. Bertier, it looks to many of those concerned that Mitzi may succeed where the other willing ladies failed.
The Match King, 1h19
Directed by Howard Bretherton, William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Warren William, Lili Damita, Glenda Farrell, Juliette Compton, Claire Dodd, Harold Huber
Roles Marta Molnar
Rating68% 3.440673.440673.440673.440673.44067
Though a lowly Chicago street cleaner, Swedish immigrant Paul Kroll (Warren William) is ambitious and unscrupulous. When a fellow employee is fired (due to one of Kroll's schemes), Kroll convinces his foreman (John Wray) to keep him on the payroll (officially at least) so they can split his salary. Soon there are eight "phantom" workers, and Kroll and his partner have amassed $460. However, Kroll has been romancing his partner's wife, Babe (Glenda Farrell), behind his back.
This Is the Night, 1h20
Directed by Frank Tuttle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Lili Damita, Charles Ruggles, Roland Young, Thelma Todd, Cary Grant, Irving Bacon
Roles Germaine
Rating65% 3.29433.29433.29433.29433.2943
When Claire Mathewson's (Thelma Todd) husband Stephen (Cary Grant) comes back unexpectedly from the 1932 Summer Olympics, where he was supposed to compete in the javelin throw, he discovers the train tickets for a romantic Venice getaway she has planned with her lover Gerald (Roland Young). Gerald's friend Bunny (Charles Ruggles) lies and says that the tickets are actually for Gerald and his wife. With Stephen still suspicious, Gerald must find a fake wife to go to Venice with him. He tries to hire the actress Chou-Chou (Claire Dodd), but since her boyfriend is a jealous man, she gives the job to out-of-work Germaine (Lili Damita), who needs the 2000 franc fee to keep from starving. At first, Gerald thinks she is too demure, but she soon convinces him that she can pretend to be a glamorous wife.
Fighting Caravans, 1h32
Directed by Otto Brower, David Burton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Fred Kohler, Eugene Pallette
Roles Felice
Rating57% 2.853222.853222.853222.853222.85322
Clint Belmet (Gary Cooper) is a bit of a firebrand and is sentenced to at least 30 days in jail, but his partners, Bill Jackson (Ernest Torrence) and Jim Bridger (Tully Marshall) talk a sympathetic Frenchwoman named Felice (Lili Damita) into telling the bumbling, drunken marshal that Clint had married her the previous night. Clint is released so he can accompany Felice on the wagon train heading west to California.
The Woman Between, 1h13
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lili Damita, O. P. Heggie, Lester Vail, Miriam Seegar, Anita Louise, Lincoln Stedman
Roles Julie Whitcomb
Rating53% 2.68542.68542.68542.68542.6854
A young man returns from Europe after several years' estrangement from his family caused by his disapproval of his father's remarrying after his mother's death. At the family reunion he learns that his stepmother is the woman with whom he had a shipboard romance on the voyage home.
Friends and Lovers, 1h8
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Adolphe Menjou, Lili Damita, Laurence Olivier, Erich von Stroheim, Hugh Herbert, Frederick Kerr
Roles Alva Sangrito
Rating54% 2.709372.709372.709372.709372.70937
British Army captain Geoff Roberts (Adolphe Menjou) carries on an affair with Alva (Lili Damita), the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito (Erich Von Stroheim). Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmailing them to save their careers.
The Cock-Eyed World, 1h55
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Military humor in film, Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, El Brendel, Joe E. Brown, Stuart Erwin
Roles Mariana Elenita
Rating54% 2.7333852.7333852.7333852.7333852.733385
Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty.