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married her third husband, agent Arthur J. Kellar, in 1913; some sources say 1915. She was widowed when Kellar died in 1940. She had twin daughters; daughter
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made drawings of Revell in her hospital room. Benefit performances by some of her clients and colleagues were held to help her manage expenses. Hospitalized and chronically ill women wrote letters to Revell, seeking her advice for keeping hope and a positive attitude. She wrote three books about her
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Nellie McAleney was described as "a large woman, loud and opinionated, not afraid to step face-to-face with any man." She married three times. Her first husband was
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McAleney started working for newspapers as a teenager. She worked in
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veteran; Nellie Revell sometimes said he was a newspaper man, but there is little evidence for this claim. At other times, she claimed her father was a press agent (what we today would call a publicist) who worked for such politicians as
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radio. She retired in 1947, when cataracts began to interfere with her vision. "They've operated on me for everything except dandruff," she joked about her ongoing health issues.
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