North side of the 6300 block of Hollywood Boulevard
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Jetta Goudal
Born Julie Henriette Goudeket on
July 12, 1891
in Versailles, France
Died
Jan. 14, 1985
in Los Angeles, CA
Jetta Goudal was a tall, regal French stage actress who became a popular screen siren in the heyday of silent pictures. Goudal came to the United States after World War I. She had appeared on stage in France and elsewhere in Europe and began her career in the U.S. on Broadway. She moved to films in 1923 with "The Bright Shawl" and for the next 10 years made a string of successes under the aegis of such famous directors as D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Her early silent films included "The Green Goddess," "Salome of the Tenements," "The Forbidden Woman" and "Lady of the Pavements."
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Two thoughts about Jetta Goudal
My name is Erik Brouwer, and I am writing a book on Jetta Goudal. She was actually not born in France but in Amsterdam, Holland. She claimed to be French and Catholic, but was the daughter of a orhodox-Jewish diamondmerchant. She definitely deserves her star. Stars she was connected with includes: Marion Davies, Lionel Barrymoore, Francis Marion, Mary Astor, Edward G. Robinson, Boris Karloff.
I met Ms. Goudal in 1982. I was interviewing her husband, Harold Grieve for an up-coming architectural tour I was giving at the Villa San Guiseppe. He wanted to accompany the tour, since he hadn't seen the Villa since he designed its interiors.
I met he and Jetta in the evening in their home. She told me who she was and about the famous law suit she waged with DeMille. I am including this in a book I am now writing. I am so happy someone is finally writing a book about her. Her contributions to films, and the legal battle she waged should be told. It was precedent setting.
Jan
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