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Lilyan Tashman

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Actress

The Resume

    (October 23, 1896-March 21, 1934)
    Born in Brooklyn, New York
    Appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies (1916-18)
    Appeared on Broadway in ‘The Gold Diggers’ (1919-21)
    Appeared in the films ‘Head Over Heels’ (1922), ‘Winner Take All’ (1924), ‘Pretty Ladies’ (1925), ‘So This Is Paris’ (1926), ‘Camille’ (1926), ‘A Texas Steer’ (1927), ‘Manhattan Cocktail’ (1928), ‘Harboiled’ (1929), ‘Bulldog Drummond’ (1929), ‘The Trial of Mary Duggan’ (1929), ‘New York Nights’ (1930), ‘Murder by the Clock’ (1931), ‘The Road to Reno’ (1931), ‘The Wiser Sex’ (1932), ‘Scarlet Dawn’ (1932), ‘Mama Loves Papa’ (1933), ‘Riptide’ (1934), and ‘Frankie and Johnny’ (1936)

Why she might be annoying:

    She had ongoing feuds with actresses Lupe Velez and Constance Bennett.
    She was arrested for assault after beating actress Alona Marlowe upon finding her in the dressing room of her husband, actor Edmund Lowe. (In some retellings of the story, Alona gets replaced by her better-known sister, June.)
    She died without a will, resulting in a legal battle between her husband and her two sisters over her furs and jewels.

Why she might not be annoying:

    When she posed for painter Raphael Kirchner, he said she had ‘the most beautiful legs in the world.’
    She said about Hollywood, ‘It’s no place for the timid.’
    She easily made the transition from silent pictures to talkies.
    Cecil Beaton called her ‘the only woman in Hollywood who even approached real sophistication.’

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying