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Lilyan Tashman

American actress

1896 – 1934aged 37

Built a career that ran from vaudeville through Broadway's Ziegfeld Follies to Hollywood's transition from silent to sound film, appearing in Pretty Ladies (1925) alongside Joan Crawford and Myrna Loy and in Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929). She and husband Edmund Lowe became fixtures of Beverly Hills social life, known for lavish entertaining and appearances on best-dressed lists. She died of cancer in 1934 at 37, cutting short a two-decade career.

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