Carmelita Geraghty
Acting
Born 1901-03-21
Died 1966-07-07
Rushville, Indiana, USA
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Carmelita Geraghty (March 21, 1901 – July 7, 1966) was an American film actress and painter. Born in Rushville, Indiana to screenwriter Thomas J. Geraghty, she started her film career as an extra in the early 1920s before being selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1924. She soon became a leading actress, including a co-starring role with Virginia Valli in The Pleasure Garden (1925), the first film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. She also played golfer Jordan Baker in the first film version of The Great Gatsby (1926) and starred alongside Clara Bow in My Lady of Whims (1925).
When the age of sound dawned, Geraghty's career slowed. Her last role was in the re-released independent Western Phantom of Santa Fe (1936). She became a very accomplished artist about ten years after leaving motion pictures. In the last years of her life, her artwork was put on display at the Weil Gardens in Paris.
Geraghty was married to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer writer and producer Carey Wilson from 1934 until his death in 1962. On July 7, 1966, she died of a heart attack at the Lombardy Hotel in Manhattan, aged 65. She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
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Filmography
Acting
57 credits
Malay Nights
Jungle Mystery
Passionate Youth
Object: Alimony
Jealous Husbands
Escapade
Discontented Husbands
The Slaver
The Campus Carmen
Millie
Josselyn's Wife
The Great Gatsby
The Pleasure Garden
Daybreak
Through the Dark
This Thing Called Love
The Lily
Brothers
My Best Girl
Black Oxen
The Devil Plays
Fighting Thru
Forgotten Women
His Unlucky Night
Fight and Win
Venus of Venice
The Mysterious Stranger
Graft
Night Life in Reno
Calling Hubby's Bluff
The Canyon of Light
My Lady of Whims
Cyclone Cavalier
A Close Shave
Paris Bound
The Texas Ranger
South Of Panama
The Small Bachelor
What Every Girl Should Know
Clunked on the Corner
The Last Trail
Under the Rouge
Motorboat Mamas
After the Fog
Don't Get Jealous
Rogue of the Rio Grande
Hubby's Weekend Trip
The Bargain Hunt
What Men Want
Phantom of Santa Fe
Men Without Law
50 Million Frenchmen
Bag and Baggage
Smith's Uncle
Trouble Brewing
The Mississippi Gambler
The Flaming Signal
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