Natalie Moorhead | |
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Born | Nathalian Morehead July 27, 1901 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Died | October 6, 1992 Montecito, California, U.S. | (aged 91)
Resting place | Calvary Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California |
Occupation | actress |
Years active | 1929–1940 |
Spouses | Raymond Phillips
(m. 1929; div. 1930)Robert J Dunham
(m. 1942; died 1948) |
Natalie Moorhead (born Nathalian Morehead,[1][better source needed] July 27, 1901 – October 6, 1992) was an American film and stage actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for distinctive platinum blond hair.[2]
Moorehead grew up in Pittsburgh.[3]
She began her theatre career on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre[citation needed] playing a bridesmaid in the 1922 play Abie's Irish Rose[4] which broke a record for run of the play, finally closing at the Theatre Republic on October 1, 1927.[citation needed] She then played Sadie in A Lady in Love (1927)[5] at the Lyceum Theatre.[citation needed] She played Lydia Webster in George M. Cohan's 1927 farce Baby Cyclone[5] at Henry Miller's Theatre.
On December 21, 1930, Moorhead married director Alan Crosland in Yosemite National Park.[6] She sued him for divorce on July 2, 1935.[7] On March 28, 1942, in Maricopa, Arizona, she married millionaire Robert J. Dunham, the sixty-six year-old president of the Chicago Park District.[8] He died in 1948.[9] Moorhead's fourth husband was Juan Garchitorena, an actor (under the stage name Juan Torena) and former soccer player. They wed on July 27, 1957, in Beverly Hills.[10]