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 Sheilah Graham was born on September 15, 1904 in Leeds, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Girls Town (1959), Impact (1949) and Beloved Infidel (1959). She was previously married to Wojciechowicz Wojtkiewicz, Trevor Westbrook and John Graham Gillam. She died on November 17, 1988 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Bio:
Sheilah Graham was born on September 15, 1904 in Leeds, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Girls Town (1959), Impact (1949) and Beloved Infidel (1959). She was previously married to Wojciechowicz Wojtkiewicz, Trevor Westbrook and John Graham Gillam. She died on November 17, 1988 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
Tivia:
Lived with F. Scott Fitzgerald 1936-1940 (his death)She was the inspiration for the heroine, Kathleen, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon". To show her love, she declined his offer to add a codicil to his will leaving her the royalties from "The Last Tycoon".Born to impoverished parents in an East London slum. Her father died of tuberculosis while she was in her infancy. Her mother, a domestic, was unable to provide for her and she ended up in an orphanage.Her daughter was named Wendy Westbrook Fairey. Wendy was born during Graham's marriage to Trevor Westbrook and given his name, but she was in fact the daughter of British Philosopher A.J. Ayer. Wendy was not told of her true parentage until she was an adult.In 1937, she was engaged to Marquess of Donegall. She broke it off when she met F. Scott Fitzgerald.Longtime Hollywood gossip columnist.Her first job was in the iron and steel company of her then husband, Major John Graham Dillam.Her apartment on Hayworth Ave. in West Hollywood is shown in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014). This was where F. Scott Fitzgerald had his fatal heart attack in 1940.The narrator of Angela Carter's novel "Wise Children", a British chorus girl who comes to Hollywood and becomes the mistress of a famous, alcoholic Irish-American novelist working as a screenwriter, is apparently inspired by Graham.Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 345-346. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.Mother, with Trevor Westbrook, of Robert T. Westbrook.From 1933 worked in New York as writer for the New York Mirror and The Evening Journal. Moved to LA in 1935, after being offered the North American Newspaper Alliance's syndicated Hollywood column.Had a brief stint at RADA before being signed as a chorus girl by impresario C.B.Cochran.Her last husband, Wojciechowicz Stanislavovich (W.S.) Wojtkiewicz, nicknamed "Bow Wow", would gain infamy for mounting Chill Wills's notorious Oscar campaign. During their divorce proceedings, she accused him of, among other things, running a restaurant out of their home, which he denied. In her autobiography, Graham dismissed Wojtkiewicz as "that nut whose name you can't pronounce". |
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Sheilah Graham |
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Actress,Writer,Additional Crew (IMDB) |
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All World |
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Actress,Writer,Additional Crew |
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Actress,Writer,Additional Crew |
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| Biography: |
Sheilah Graham was born on September 15, 1904 in Leeds, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Girls Town (1959), Impact (1949) and Beloved Infidel (1959). She was previously married to Wojciechowicz Wojtkiewicz, Trevor Westbrook and J |
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Lived with F. Scott Fitzgerald 1936-1940 (his death)She was the inspiration for the heroine, Kathleen, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon". To show her love, she declined his offer to add a codicil to his will leaving her the royalties from "The Last Tycoon".Born to impoverished parents in an East London slum. Her father died of tuberculosis while she was in her infancy. Her mother, a domestic, was unable to provide for her and she ended up in an orphanage.Her daughter was named Wendy Westbrook Fairey. Wendy was born during Graham's marriage to Trevor Westbrook and given his name, but she was in fact the daughter of British Philosopher A.J. Ayer. Wendy was not told of her true parentage until she was an adult.In 1937, she was engaged to Marquess of Donegall. She broke it off when she met F. Scott Fitzgerald.Longtime Hollywood gossip columnist.Her first job was in the iron and steel company of her then husband, Major John Graham Dillam.Her apartment on Hayworth Ave. in West Hollywood is shown in Hollywood Mouth 2 (2014). This was where F. Scott Fitzgerald had his fatal heart attack in 1940.The narrator of Angela Carter's novel "Wise Children", a British chorus girl who comes to Hollywood and becomes the mistress of a famous, alcoholic Irish-American novelist working as a screenwriter, is apparently inspired by Graham.Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 345-346. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.Mother, with Trevor Westbrook, of Robert T. Westbrook.From 1933 worked in New York as writer for the New York Mirror and The Evening Journal. Moved to LA in 1935, after being offered the North American Newspaper Alliance's syndicated Hollywood column.Had a brief stint at RADA before being signed as a chorus girl by impresario C.B.Cochran.Her last husband, Wojciechowicz Stanislavovich (W.S.) Wojtkiewicz, nicknamed "Bow Wow", would gain infamy for mounting Chill Wills's notorious Oscar campaign. During their divorce proceedings, she accused him of, among other things, running a restaurant out of their home, which he denied. In her autobiography, Graham dismissed Wojtkiewicz as "that nut whose name you can't pronounce". |
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No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
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I was never a mistress. I was a woman who loved F. Scott Fitzgerald, for better or worse, until he died. |
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Actress,Writer,Additional Crew |
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Wojciechowicz Wojtkiewicz (February 14, 1953 - February 2, 1956) (divorced)Trevor Westbrook (1941 - 1946) (divorced, 2 children)John Graham Gillam (1923 - 1937) (divorced) |
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