Jetta Goudal
Jetta Goudal ; Born: Julie Henriette Goudeket (born July 12, 1891 in Amsterdam , North Holland , † January 14, 1985 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film and theater actress of Dutch origin.
Life
family
Julie Goudeket grew up as the daughter of Mozes Goudeket, an Orthodox Jew who had become prosperous as a diamond cutter , and his wife Geertruida Warradijn in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam . Parts of her family were later murdered in the Nazi extermination camps , including her 82-year-old father and his second wife in Sobibor in April 1942 .
Career
As a young woman, Goudeket joined various theater groups and went on tour throughout Europe , including France and Germany . In 1918, shortly after the end of World War I , she moved to the United States and settled in New York City . In order not to get disadvantages because of her Jewish faith, she announced Versailles in France as the place of birth at the beginning of her career ; she also made herself 10 years younger and gave her year of birth as 1901. These dates are still incorrectly given in some biographies about Jetta Goudal. In addition, she also adopted her somewhat English-sounding pseudonym and in future only called herself Jetta Goudal .
In March 1921 she premiered on Broadway in Gilbert Emery's play The Hero ; however, it was discontinued after only five performances due to lack of success. Goudal's second and last play, The Elton Case by William Devereux , which was only seen 17 times in September 1921, was also short-lived .
Goudal then turned to the medium of film and was in 1922 in Timothy's Quest by director Sidney Olcott for the first time in front of the camera. What is striking about Goudal's short career as a film actress is that she often appeared in front of the camera as a princess or countess. In 1930 she made a French-language film called Le specter vert .
In 1925 she stood in front of the camera in The Road to Yesterday by director Cecil B. DeMille . However, this was forced to terminate the contract with Goudal because of their starry airs. So she should have interfered in every issue on the set, even in the structure of the scenes and the design of the costumes and insisted on her concepts. After Goudal received the dismissal, she filed a lawsuit against DeMille that lasted nearly five years and which Goudal ultimately won. DeMille had to pay a large amount of money to Goudal. Nevertheless, Goudal's reputation was ruined by her behavior, so that from 1932 no film producer wanted to work with the actress. The last time she appeared in front of the camera was in Business and Pleasure , directed by David Butler .
Late life
In October 1930 she married Art Director Harold Grieve , a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . After her involuntary retirement as an actress, she began a career as an interior designer in collaboration with her husband . Goudal and Grieve were married for almost 55 years; They didn't have any children.
After she developed massive heart problems in the 1960s, Goudal suffered a heart attack in 1973 , which she survived, severely disabled. She died in Los Angeles in January 1985 at the age of 93. She is now buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California ; at the side of her husband, who died in November 1993.
Today a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame commemorates the actress.
Filmography
- 1932: Business and Pleasure
literature
- Erik Brouwer: Diva. Het onthullende verhaal over hoe Amsterdamse Jetje heel Hollywood op stelten zette en een wereldberoemde filmster will be . Bern, 2018, ISBN 978-90-828374-0-7 .
Web links
- Jetta Goudal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jetta Goudal in the Internet Broadway Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goudal, Jetta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goudeket, Julie Henriette |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and theater actress of Dutch origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 12, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam , North Holland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 1985 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |