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Goudal appeared in several highly successful and acclaimed films for DeMille and became one of the top box-office draws of the late 1920s. DeMille later claimed that Goudal was so difficult to work with that he eventually fired her and cancelled their contract. Goudal filed a lawsuit for breach of
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contract against him and DeMille Pictures Corporation. Although DeMille claimed her conduct had caused numerous and costly production delays, Goudal won the suit in a landmark ruling when DeMille was unwilling to provide his studio's financial records to support his claim of financial losses.
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business. They remained married until her death in 1985 in Los Angeles. She is interred next to her husband in a private room at the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of the Angels, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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On April 19, 2019, the city council of Amsterdam renamed bridge 771, previously without a name, the Jetta Goudalbridge. In early 2020, the name tag was installed.
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Warradijn; 1866–1920) and Wolf Mozes Goudeket (1860–1942), a wealthy diamond cutter, in Amsterdam. Her parents were both Jewish, and her father was
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Tall and regal in appearance, she began her acting career on stage, traveling across Europe with various theater companies. In 1918, she left
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on July 12, 1901 (shaving 10 years off her age as well), the daughter of a fictional Maurice Guillaume Goudal, a lawyer.
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In 1960, for recognition of Goudal's contribution to the motion picture industry, she was honored with a star on the
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She first appeared on Broadway in 1921, using the stage name Jetta Goudal. After meeting director
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Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses
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directed Goudal in her only French-language film, a made-in-Hollywood production titled
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Hairpins and Dead Ends: The Perilous Journeys of 25 Actresses Through Early Hollywood
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Because of her audaciousness in suing DeMille and her high-profile activism in the
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and her growing fame brought her to the attention of producer/director
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Goudal was born on July 12, 1891, the daughter of Geertruida (
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campaign for the theatre and film industry to accept a
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Lady of the Pavements
Amsterdam
Los Angeles
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Harold Grieve
/ˈʒɛtə/
silent film
Orthodox
Sobibor extermination camp
The Holocaust
World War I
Versailles
Sidney Olcott
The Bright Shawl
Salome of the Tenements
lost film
Anzia Yezierska
Lower East Side
Adolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
Cecil B. DeMille
William Randolph Hearst
Marion Davies
Lady of the Pavements
D.W. Griffith
Jacques Feyder
Actors' Equity Association
closed shop
Will Rogers

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