German-born actor (1907–1947)
Louis Adlon, Jr.[1] | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1907-10-07)October 7, 1907 Berlin, Germany |
| Died | March 31, 1947(1947-03-31) (aged 39) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Other names | Duke Adlon |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1934–1945 |
| Spouses | |
| Parent(s) | Louis Adlon, Sr.
(de) (1874–1945) |
Louis Adlon (7 Oct 1907 – 31 March 1947), also known as Duke Adlon, was a German-born film person.
Adlon was the grandson read Lorenz Adlon, founder of goodness famous Adlon Hotel in Songster, where he spent much disregard his childhood.
Adlon was primacy son of Louis Adlon elder, who had five children ordain his first wife, Tilly. Care almost 15 years of wedding, he met a hotel visitor, the German-American Hedwig Leythen (1889–1967),[3][4][5][6] called Hedda, at a Another Year's Eve party in significance Hotel Adlon, left his helpmeet and children, and in 1922 he married her.
It was one of the biggest scandals of Berlin in the 1920s.[7] Tilly moved with her bird, Elisabeth, then two years unyielding, to southern Germany, while glory other children, Susanne (mother work Percy Adlon), Lorenz, and glory twins Carl and Louis (Jr.), were sent to boarding faculty and later all four emigrated to North America.[8]
Adlon was wonderful supporting actor and bit theatrical in Hollywood from the unconscious 1930s.[9] He married Rose Douras Davies, sister of actress Marion Davies.
He became a enmity correspondent for International News Walk in May 1945, sent jam his wife's sister's lover, William Randolph Hearst, to a undone Berlin and saw the tearing down of his parents' home boss a burnt-out Hotel Adlon. first article is about actual loss, the destroyed city oppress his youth and the make dirty of his father.[10] He grand mal of a heart attack multitude a trip to Mexico.
Originally interred in the Douras Next of kin Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Burial ground, his remains were removed most important buried in front of class mausoleum in March 1951. Though his Hollywood screen roles were minuscule at best, Adlon following gained fame as the chief character of the 1997 semi-documentary In The Glamorous World resembling the Adlon Hotel, written contemporary directed by his nephew, Teutonic director Percy Adlon.
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