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Camille Astor

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Astor was named co-respondent in the first divorce of real estate broker DeKalb Spurlin in 1910, and married him as his second wife in 1915. Based on claims of infidelity and cruelty, they divorced in 1919, but she was threatened by a judge with jail time when she continued to harass her ex-husband
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and Frank Reicher. She was adept at languages, and helped with interpreting on some film sets. In 1915 she offered her services as a "Polish Red Cross nurse" and danced at war relief benefit events in Los Angeles.
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Astor usually said to have been born in 1896 in Warsaw, then a part of the Russian Empire. During 1910 court testimony, she gave a different story, saying that she was born in
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as "Grace Curry", sometime before 1890, though this may also have been an embellished account. She trained as a dancer and was a proficient swimmer as well.
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in 1920. She married again in 1922, to engineer Jack Moore. She died in Los Angeles in 1944, in her fifties.
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Astor was a dancer and actress in Los Angeles from at least 1910. Films featuring Astor included
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Gracy Curry (in 1910), Camille A. Spurlin (after 1915), Camille A. Moore (after 1922)
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The Silent Feminists: America's First Women Directors
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Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era
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Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol
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Index

A young white woman with dark hair and eyes, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a strand of pearls, and a white dress or blouse with a square neckline
Manchester
England
Chimmie Fadden
Chimmie Fadden Out West
Cecil B. DeMille
The Thousand-Dollar Husband
Blanche Sweet
For the Defense
Frank Reicher
To Have and to Hold
George Melford
The Garden of Allah
Helen Ware
For Those We Love
Arthur Rosson
The Sowers
William C. deMille



"Fighting for a Reputation; Dancing Girl Denies Charge Made by Wife"
"Camille Astor"
"When She Swims"
Cecil B. DeMille and American Culture: The Silent Era
ISBN
978-0-520-91481-0
"Victor Moore at Lyric in 'Chimmie Fadden'"
"'For the Defense'--Fannie Ward Mon-Tues in New Play at Queen"
Wallace Reid: The Life and Death of a Hollywood Idol

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