Ramona Langley | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, US | July 9, 1893
Died | November 11, 1983 Los Angeles, California, US | (aged 90)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Clarence English (m. 1913; div. 1938) Clare Woolwine (m. 1938–his death) |
Ramona Langley (July 9, 1893 – November 11, 1983) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was known primarily for her work in comedies for Universal and Nestor. [1] [2] [3]
A native of Los Angeles, Ramona was born in 1893 to John Langley and Mary Niles. [4] She would later tell reporters she was named after Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. [1]
In 1913, the same year she began appearing in one-reel films for the Nestor Comedy Company, she married industrialist Clarence English, and the pair relocated to a large ranch near Chihuahua, Mexico. Less than a year later, the pair evacuated their home and returned to Hollywood as a result of the Mexican Border War. [1]
Ramona was severely injured in 1914 on the set of the Universal Pictures film, She Was Only a Working Girl, after she and her male co-stars fell on a slippery concrete floor. Crushed under the weight of the men, Ramona suffered major internal injuries and was reportedly urged by director Al Christie to continue the shoot. [5] Despite lingering injuries that kept her in a sanatorium bed for months, the studio refused to compensate her for her suffering, and she was replaced in the finished film by Victoria Forde. [5] [6]
After her recovery, she retired from filmmaking and focused on raising her three children. Eventually, in 1938, she and English separated. [7] That same year, Langley married her second husband, politician Clare Woolwine, in Lake Tahoe. [8] Woolwine died a year later after suffering a heart attack. [9]
Ramona died on November 11, 1983, in Los Angeles.
Ramona Langley | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, US | July 9, 1893
Died | November 11, 1983 Los Angeles, California, US | (aged 90)
Occupation | Actress |
Spouse(s) | Clarence English (m. 1913; div. 1938) Clare Woolwine (m. 1938–his death) |
Ramona Langley (July 9, 1893 – November 11, 1983) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. She was known primarily for her work in comedies for Universal and Nestor. [1] [2] [3]
A native of Los Angeles, Ramona was born in 1893 to John Langley and Mary Niles. [4] She would later tell reporters she was named after Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona. [1]
In 1913, the same year she began appearing in one-reel films for the Nestor Comedy Company, she married industrialist Clarence English, and the pair relocated to a large ranch near Chihuahua, Mexico. Less than a year later, the pair evacuated their home and returned to Hollywood as a result of the Mexican Border War. [1]
Ramona was severely injured in 1914 on the set of the Universal Pictures film, She Was Only a Working Girl, after she and her male co-stars fell on a slippery concrete floor. Crushed under the weight of the men, Ramona suffered major internal injuries and was reportedly urged by director Al Christie to continue the shoot. [5] Despite lingering injuries that kept her in a sanatorium bed for months, the studio refused to compensate her for her suffering, and she was replaced in the finished film by Victoria Forde. [5] [6]
After her recovery, she retired from filmmaking and focused on raising her three children. Eventually, in 1938, she and English separated. [7] That same year, Langley married her second husband, politician Clare Woolwine, in Lake Tahoe. [8] Woolwine died a year later after suffering a heart attack. [9]
Ramona died on November 11, 1983, in Los Angeles.