Lili Damita

Lili Damita died of Alzheimer's disease in Palm Beach, Florida and was interred in the Oakland Cemetery in Fort Dodge, Iowa. See also: Other Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood. During the Vietnam Conflict, 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 April 6, 1970. Although Lili Damita spent an enormous amount of money searching for her son, he was never found and in 1984 was declared legally dead. Some of her motion pictures:. Following the marriage, she gave up her film career, taking up residence in Palm Beach, Florida. The couple divorced in 1942 and Damita eventually married Albert Loomis, a Fort Dodge, Iowa dairy owner. Fifi D'Orsay passed away in Woodland Hills, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Divorced from Curtiz, 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 born in 1941. At the age of sixty-seven, she appeared back on stage in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, Follies..

In 1929, she went to Hollywood, making her American debut in a film titled "The Rescue." Soon, she was an important star at Warner Brothers Studios, appearing with rising male stars such as Gary Cooper and James Cagney. For years, she kept alternating her appearances in film with continued performances in vaudeville and when age put an end to the glamour roles, she readily took jobs in television. She became the second wife of Hungarian born film director Michael Curtiz after appearing in three of his Austrian made films. While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby, and Buster Crabbe. Offered a role in film, in 1921 she appeared in her first French made silent film before going on to perform in films in Britain, Austria, and Germany. After working with Gallagher and others in music halls for a few years, she headed west to Hollywood, California. There, she added the Paris name "D'Orsay" to the "Fifi" and began a career in movies, often cast as the naughty French girl from "Gay Paris.". Born Liliane-Marie-Madeleine Carré in Bordeaux, France, by age 16 she was performing in popular music-halls, eventually starring in the Revue at the Casino de Paris. While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act.

Lili Damita (July 19, 1901 – March 21, 1994) was an actress. In a burst of creativity, she told the play's director she was from Paris, France where she had worked in the Follies Bèrgere. The show's impressed director hired her, billing her as "Mademoiselle Fifi". There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" in French. Born Marie-Rose Angelina Yvonne Lussier in Montreal, Quebec, as a young girl, filled with the desire to become an actress, she went to New York City. Fifi D'Orsay (April 16, 1904 - December 2, 1983) was an actress.

They Had to See Paris - (1929). Women Everywhere - (1930). Hot for Paris - (1930). Those Three French Girls - (1930).

On the Level - (1930). Women of All Nations - (1931). The Stolen Jools - (1931). Young as You Feel - (1931).

Lemon of Orange - (1931). Mr. The Girl From Calgary - (1932). Going Hollywood - (1933).

They Just Had to Get Married - (1933). The Life of Jimmy Dolan - (1933). Wonder Bar - (1934). Three Legionnaires - (1937).

Submarine Base - (1943). Nabonga - (1944). Delinquent Daughters - (1944). Dixie Jamboree - (1945).

The Gangster - (1947). Wild And Wonderful - (1964). What a Way to Go! - (1964). The Art of Love - (1965).

Assignment to Kill - (1968).