LILLIE LANGTRY "THE JERSEY LILY" SINGS ON THE MARGATE BOAT 1903

I searched for the silent film that Lillie Langtry made - just one - and apparently a copy does not exist.  However, the model -actress-singer did record some songs and this YouTube video was a find. It also has many a photograph.  She was a Pear's Soap model and is credited as the first celebrity to endorse a product during her early days.

The Margate Boat was recorded in 1903. (She was in midlife.)

The one film she appeared in, in 1913, was titled "His Neighbor's Wife." (She was nearing her senior years.)

Born in 1853, the woman born Emilie Charlotte de Bathe, known to the world as an model, actress, singer - and Royal Mistress, died in 1929 in Monaco, age 75.

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NINA and FREDERIK - DANISH FOLK SINGERS and "SOCIETY KIDS DABBLING IN MUSIC" WHO BECAME "OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS"

Danish, and a series of records and albums that did well in Europe during the early 1960's especially, they were compared to the American folk singing trio Peter, Paul, and Mary, and despite first thought of as dabblers, became overnight sensations.

Nina was still married to her first husband Hugo Wessel, a man of leisure, who she had first dated while in college at USC in America, while he also attended college in Southern California, when she started singing with old family friend Frederik. After making such music together, and staring in two films, everyone wondered if they would marry. She quietly divorced Hugo and married Frederik, thereafter having three children with him in the early 1960's.

NINA BECOMES KNOWN IN THE UNITED STATES

February 11, 1972 Life Magazine Cover

The very beginning of Nina's memoir, which was published in 1973  by Walker and Company publishing in New York, begins with this statement.  

Excerpt page 9:

"I was famous but felt like a freak and was damn well going to show them that I wasn't  No one in America knew me but for being "The Danish Singer in the Hughes Affair." While in New York in February fer the Grand Jury hearings there'd been dozens of offers for cabarets and television and I don't know what else."

(Note; her manager in Europe, John Marshall, had gotten Nina three weeks at the St Regis Hotel "Maisonette", which was a small and elegant room, for a debut in the United States, but the St. Regis became "Press besieged."  She was separated from her husband Frederik at the time and also had a housekeeper and nanny with their children in London.  Her mother, who was in Copenhagen, then brought the children to New York with her.  The three weeks at the St. Regis was a successful run of the show.)

Half way through the book she finally gets to the chapter Ibiza where she mentions Clifford Irving once more.  No doubt the scandal did bring her name into the spotlight, for many in America, for the first time.  Nina Van Pallandt did do some television and other work as a result of the interest in her.

Here's her film information from IMDb IMDB - NINA VAN PALLANDT

DOROTHY KILGALLEN THE AMERICAN 'PRINCESS' WHO COVERED CORONATIONS AND QUEEN ELIZABETH'S ROYAL WEDDING GETS MARRIED TO AN BLUE BLOOD

 

Notes and Excerpts from Kilgallen by Lee Israel

(This is about Dorothy as someone who wanted to be with the rich.)

'Dorothy knew the rich were different. She liked the difference. And she genuinely liked the rich... There was a gauzy, ethereal quality about her...' (page 101)

'Single-handedly, she covered the coronation of George VI for the Journal, filling the entire front page of the paper for days with background stories, profiles, hard news of the coronation and all related social functions. On the Queen Mary and in London, she learned about keno, plover's eggs, curtsies, the proper response to royalty, and the significance of royal ribbons... '

(page 102)

'It is well within the realm of possibility that in Dorothy's perplexing psyche, dusty with moonbeams and communion wafers, she was actually seeing these professional events as a kind of social baptism...' (page 103)

'Dorothy had never been ashamed of her family or her household. Brooklyn was another matter. When she became The Voice of Broadway, she persuaded the family to move into Manhattan...' (page 108)

(Dorothy began to socialize with debutantes younger than she.)

'It was easy to like Dorothy socially.  She was a generous friend and a pleasant companion.  Her manners were impeccable.  She never gossiped or bad-mouthed anyone.  She liked her new life.  She loved her job.  She was proud of the columns she was turning out, though never boastful. She had an innocence that the worldly found amusing, a flight, gesticulating insecurity that the more sensitive of her friends found poignant... (pages 112-113)

(And as for the man she did marry, RIchard Kollmar...)

'He proposed on their sixth date, the courtship having been interrupted while he left town with the show. Dorothy told him that she wanted very much to be his wife, but that the problem of religion had first to be solved. Richard was an Episcopalian, and she would not consider marrying outside the Church. He would have to convert... (pages 116-117)

(His mother objected strongly, his father was softer. He did convert. RIchard then formally asked Dorothy's father for permission to marry her.)

'She wanted "Cholly Knickerbocker" to break the news of her engagement on the Society page.  He did, stressing Richard's generational high marks..." (page 124)  (Cholly was a famous society and goings-on-around-town columnist based in New York City.)

(Dorothy went on to brag about Richard's heritage.)

'The simplest conclusion about the relationship between Dorothy and RIchard is drawn often and harshly by many who knew both of them. RIchard, a striving actor, saw Dorothy, a powerful columnist and thought "That will get me where I want to go," and pursued her. It is a view that appears to redound most negatively upon him, but, in fact, makes a pitiable, foolish, and desperately vulnerable woman of Dorothy.  It is a view held by many who loved her, but nonetheless perceived her as an extraordinarily unattractive woman for whom a noticeable attractive man could not conceivably have had genuine feeling. To hold that view of their relationship is to fail to recognize that power can be as vitally aphrodisiacal when it is held by a woman as when it is held by a man.  Even if Richard did perceive  Dorothy as a kind of powerhouse, it is quite likely that he was aroused by that power.  

 (pages 124-125)

(Dorothy and Richard had a wedding with 800 guests, some of them Hollywood celebrities, many of them rather new to her life. They had a reception at the Viennese Room at the Saint Regis Hotel and then went on a honeymoon to Cuba.)

...'the bride and groom left to honeymoon in Varadero, Cuba.  The entire honeymoon package was a diplomatically wrapped gift presented to Dorothy from the North American gambling syndicate that supported General Gulgencio Batista.' (page 130)

(Cuba at the time was not ruled by Fidel Castro and was in fact a popular resort.)

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ISABEL ROSARIO COOPER IN THE PHILIPPINES - VAUDEVILLE

This image comes from a brief news item that appeared in November 2017 in an

on-line newspaper called Philstar Global. Learned that date taken and photographer are unknown. It also appears in Empire's Mistress starring Isabel Rosario Cooper as a black and white copy. Even from afar one can see the dimples that gave her that nickname.

RAY CHARLES THE MOST CREATIVE MUSICAL GIANT OF THIS GENERATION and the _++++RAELETTES SPE

The Raeletts were backup singers who toured with Ray Charles. 

I believe that Margie Hendrix closest to the bottom edge of the poster.  There was some change outs of Raeletts personell over time.  As the only mistress of Ray Charles revealed in the bio-pic Ray, until I began researching I believed he had one wife and one mistress.

RAY CHARLES and the RAELETTES - MARGIE HENDRIX and SEX ON THE ROAD TOURS

The early 1960's girl group Raelettes -Ray Charles' Touring Group. Margie Hendrix is the second from the left, and the featured singer. 

Margie wasn't the first or last background singer to be involved with her boss, the star of the show, and probably won't be the last.
Excerpts from Ray Charles own memoir BROTHER RAY read on Overdrive e-book:

"So I didn't - and don't - have a policy against hanky-panky among the girls and boys in the band.  How could I, as much as I loved to f-uck?  I'd look like a fool and I'd be a hypocrite.  The guys were adults and so were the women...  1279 -1280

HE SAYS HE DID HAVE SEX WITH RAELETTES.

"But I've never insisted that any woman sleep with me.  When sex happens between me and one of the Raelettes it happens naturally. It doesn't concern her pay or her music.  I never allow those two currents - lovemaking and music - to cross each other.
I'd never want to make love to a woman thinking the only reason she agrees is because I'm her boss. ... I have to feel she wants me as much as I want her...  1287-1288
I also have another personal sex policy.  If a girl's with another guy in the band, I leave her alone.  I don't want my cats thinking that I'm interfering with their business or their love life... 1289-1290

Finally everyone starts pairing off and the band gets hip to who belongs to who." 1293-1294