Jewel Carmen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jewel Carmen

actress

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1897

Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon, United States

Date of Death: 04-Mar-1984

Profession: actor, stage actor, film actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Jewel Carmen

  • Jewel Carmen (born Florence Lavina Quick; July 13, 1897 – March 4, 1984) was an American silent film actress who appeared in over thirty films, mostly in the late 1910s.
  • In addition to being known for her film career, she received notoriety for being involved in several scandals throughout her career. Raised in Portland, Oregon, Carmen began acting in Hollywood at age 15, eventually performing with Keystone Studios.
  • She first garnered public attention for her involvement in a statutory rape case involving herself and a 35-year-old automobile dealer in Los Angeles, but the charges against him were ultimately dropped as she could not concretely prove her age. Carmen resumed her career, appearing in several films throughout the 1910s, including a small role in D.
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  • Griffith's Intolerance (1916), followed by leads in American Aristocracy (1916) opposite Douglas Fairbanks, and in Frank Lloyd's A Tale of Two Cities (1917).
  • She also starred as Cosette in Lloyd's adaptation of Les Misérables (also 1917).
  • In 1918, she married film director Roland West.
  • Carmen made her final film appearance in West's horror film The Bat (1926). In December 1935, Carmen garnered significant media coverage following the death of actress Thelma Todd, who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the garage of Carmen and West's Pacific Palisades home.
  • Carmen became embroiled in the investigation after she claimed to have seen Todd on Hollywood Boulevard hours after the time police determined Todd had died.
  • A grand jury ultimately ruled Todd's death accidental, with the consensus that she had inadvertently caused her own death by running her car inside the garage to warm herself after West locked her out of the home; Todd and West had been engaged in a romantic affair at the time.
  • Following Todd's death, Carmen and West divorced, and she lived the remainder of her life outside the public eye before dying in an El Cajon nursing home in 1984, aged 86.

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