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Leonora Hughes was born in Chicago and raised in New York City, one of the eight children of Thomas Hughes and Mary McGuire Hughes. Her parents were Irish immigrants to the United States.
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and his cousin, Duke Ferdinand of Dúrcal, both wooed Hughes in the early 1920s. In 1925, Hughes married wealthy Argentinian Carlos Ortiz Basualdo at
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in New York City. They had two children, Carlos Fermín and María Matilde. They hosted international visitors, including British princes,
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Hughes was a telephone operator as a young woman. She was the third dance partner of Maurice Mouvet, beginning after his divorce from
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Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City
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on the deck of a ship in 1920, online at University of South Carolina Libraries Digital Collections
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Hughes was considered a stylish beauty in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance
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Some sources give 1898 or 1899 as the year of her birth.
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A 1920 photograph of Leonora Hughes and Maurice Mouvet
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She appeared in two silent films: 493:Lake, Talbot (February 23, 1938). 14: 833:American expatriates in Argentina 546:Steichen, Edward (October 1924). 387:"When Death Played for the Dance" 256:Hellinger, Mark (June 16, 1929). 732:Coward, Noël (August 22, 2014). 37:Leonora Hughes, photographed by 848:Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery 843:20th-century American actresses 828:Argentine silent film actresses 572:. December 14, 1935. p. 18 445:. Scarecrow Press. p. 74. 418:. NYU Press. pp. 110–111. 85:Leonore Hughes, Lenora Basualdo 838:American silent film actresses 705:Hoare, Philip (May 21, 2013). 319:. October 28, 1923. p. 23 160:photographed her in 1923, for 137:, originally published in 1923 1: 868:20th-century American dancers 651:Hope, Jane (March 10, 1935). 466:Dietz, Dan (April 10, 2019). 367:. October 29, 1928. p. 6 361:"Famous Dancer in a New Role" 339:"Society's Latest Playground" 527:. 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A young white woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a dark cloche hat low over her brow
Edward Steichen
Buenos Aires
socialite
Maurice Mouvet

Sem
Florence Walton
Broadway
Edward Steichen
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The Indestructible Wife
Alice Brady
The Rejected Woman
Bela Lugosi
Alma Rubens
Alfonso of Spain
St. Patrick's Cathedral
John J. Pershing
Noël Coward
Nahuel Huapi
Buenos Aires


"About Broadway"
"Mary Hughes (death notice)"


"How a King Makes Love"

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