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Boots Mallory (photography by Luther S. White, around 1930)

Patricia "Boots" Mallory (born October 22, 1913 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † December 1, 1958 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American actress , dancer and model .

Life

Mallory grew up in Mobile, Alabama , where she attended Murphy High School and worked as an usher at the Lyric Theater. There she discovered Florenz Ziegfeld junior , who hired her as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway in 1931 . This enabled Mallory to make the leap to Hollywood.

Through the Fox Film Corporation she received her first film role in 1932 as Peggy in Walking Down Broadway , the first sound film by director Erich von Stroheim . However, due to differences with the film studio, von Stroheim was excluded from filming and most of his scenes were re-shot. In 1933 the film was released under the new title Hello Sister . The profound work about a love triangle had turned into a B-movie that received bad reviews before. The acting performance of Boots Mallory and the leading actress ZaSu Pitts was also criticized. Due to the circumstances, it is still Mallory's most famous film appearance.

Also in 1932 Mallory was elected one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars , who were predicted to have a particularly successful career. However, her Hollywood career was only 6 years in total. In 1938 Mallory shot with Laurel and Hardy: As a Salontiroler, her eleventh and last film, but was not named in the credits.

Both during and after her acting career, Boots Mallory, considered a beauty, was a popular photo model, also for nudes. Among other things, the well-known photographer George Hurrell shot them .

Boots Mallory was married three times. Her marriage to actor Charles Bennett , entered into at age 16 , ended in divorce. Her second marriage was from 1933 until the divorce in 1946 with the actor William Cagney , the brother of James Cagney , with whom they had two children. Her third marriage to British actor Herbert Marshall lasted from 1947 until her death.

Boots Mallory died in Santa Monica on December 1, 1958, at the age of only 45. An unspecified chronic throat disease, but also lung cancer, was usually given as the cause of death. Mallory was buried in the Chapel Of The Pines Crematory in Los Angeles .

Filmography

  • 1932: Walking Down Broadway (first published as Little Sister in 1933 )
  • 1932: Handle with Care
  • 1933: Humanity
  • 1933: The Wolf Dog
  • 1933: Carnival Lady
  • 1934: The Big Race
  • 1934: Sing Sing Nights
  • 1935: Powdersmoke Range
  • 1937: Here's Flash Casey
  • 1938: Laurel and Hardy: As Salontiroler (Swiss Miss)

Web links

Commons : Boots Mallory  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Stumpf: ZaSu Pitts: The Life and Career McFarland, Jefferson 2010, ISBN 978-0-7864-6023-6 , page 53.
  2. ↑ Krista Al Qirim: Patricia “Boots” Mallory. In: Find a Grave . July 6, 2014, accessed November 18, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mallory, boots
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallory, Patricia (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress, dancer and model
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1958
Place of death Santa Monica , California