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Natalie Moorhead

Natalie Moorhead (born Nathalian Moorhead, was an American film and stage actress. As a performer, she was known for her distinctive short platinum blond hair.

Early years
Moorhead was born Nathalian Moorhead on July 27, 1901 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the second daughter to Anna Catherine (née Messner) and James Vincent Moorhead. A tomboy from a young age, she was likely nicknamed 'Natalie' by the boy-filled gangs she frequented. Natalie gained an appreciation for theatre and the opera from her father, a steelworker who tragically died when she was around thirteen. During the First World War, secretarial government jobs for women were becoming hugely popular, as the men who originally occupied them were drafted. Upon graduating from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh, Natalie enrolled in a business school to study shorthand and typewriting, but secretly yearned for a career on-stage. Upon taking a trip with friends to New York City to see a football game, she was scouted by a theatre executive while shopping on Fifth Avenue, and leapt at the opportunity. == Career ==
Career
She began her theatre career on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre; playing a bridesmaid in the 1922 play, ''Abie's Irish Rose, which broke viewership records for the run of the play; finally closing at the Theatre Republic on October 1, 1927. She then played alongside Sydney Greenstreet in A Lady in Love'' (1927) at the Lyceum Theatre, and with a young Spencer Tracy in George M. Cohan's 1927 farce Baby Cyclone at Henry Miller's Theatre. ==Personal life==
Personal life
On December 21, 1930, Moorhead married director Alan Crosland in Yosemite National Park. She sued him for divorce on July 2, 1935. Upon stepping away from the spotlight, Moorhead married millionaire Robert J. Dunham; then-sixty-six year old president of the Chicago Park District, on March 28, 1942, in Maricopa, Arizona. He died in 1948. Moorhead's fourth husband was Juan Garchitorena, an actor (under the stage name Juan Torena) and former soccer player. They wed on July 27, 1957, in Beverly Hills, and remained married until his death in 1983. On October 6, 1992, Moorhead died in Montecito, California. ==Selected filmography==
Selected filmography
Thru Different Eyes (1929) - Frances Thornton • The Unholy Night (1929) - Lady Violet Montague • The Girl from Havana (1929) - Lona Martin • The Furies (1930) - Caroline Leigh • The Benson Murder Case (1930) - Fanny Del Roy • Spring Is Here (1930) - Rita Conway • Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) - Blonde Actress with Frank Buelow at Premiere (uncredited) • The Runaway Bride (1930) - Clara Muldoon • Shadow of the Law (1930) - Ethel Barry aka Ethel George • Hot Curves (1930) - Maizie • Manslaughter (1930) - Eleanor Bellington • Ladies Must Play (1930) - Connie • The Office Wife (1930) - Linda Fellowes • Divorce Among Friends (1930) - Joan Whitley • Hook, Line and Sinker (1930) - Duchess Bessie Von Essie • Captain Thunder (1930) - Bonita • Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) - Della • Illicit (1931) - Margie True • Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) - Leila Crofton • Women Men Marry (1931) - Dolly Moulton • My Past (1931) - Consuelo 'Connie' Byrne • The Phantom of Paris (1931) - Vera • Morals for Women (1931) - Flora • The Deceiver (1931) - Mrs. Lawton • Maker of Men (1931) - Mrs. Rhodes • Discarded Lovers (1932) - Irma Gladden • Three Wise Girls (1932) - Ruth Dexter • The Menace (1932) - Caroline Quayle • Cross-Examination (1932) - Inez Wells • Love Bound (Murder on the High Seas) (1932) - Verna Wilson, alias Vera Wendall • The Stoker (1932) - Vera Martin • The King Murder (1932) - Elizabeth Hawthorn • The Fighting Gentleman (1932) - Violet Reed • Forgotten (1933) - Myrtle Strauss • The Mind Reader (1933) - Mrs. Austin • Private Detective 62 (1933) - Helen Burns • Corruption (1933) - Sylvia Gorman • Dance Hall Hostess (1933) - Clare • The Big Chance (1933) - Babe • Curtain at Eight (1933) - Alma Jenkins Thornton • Gigolettes of Paris (1933) - Diane Valraine • Secret Sinners (1933) - Mrs. Gilbert • Only Yesterday (1933) - Lucy (uncredited) • Long Lost Father (1934) - Phyllis Mersey-Royds • Dancing Man (1934) - Tamara Trevor • The Thin Man (1934) - Julia Wolf • Fifteen Wives (1934) - Carol Manning • The Curtain Falls (1934) - Katherine Scorsby • Champagne for Breakfast (1935) - Mrs. Morton • Two in a Crowd (1936) - Mrs. Anthony (uncredited) • 15 Maiden Lane (1936) - Nellie - Society Crook (uncredited) • What Becomes of the Children? (1936) - Edith Worthington • King of Gamblers (1937) - Woman at Table (uncredited) • The Adventurous Blonde (1937) - Theresa Gray • Heart of Arizona (1938) - Belle Starr • The Beloved Brat (1938) - Evelyn Morgan • Letter of Introduction (1938) - Maud Raleigh - Park Plaza Gossip (uncredited) • When Tomorrow Comes (1939) - Woman (uncredited) • Lady of the Tropics (1939) - Mrs. Hazlitt • The Women (1939) - Woman at Modiste Salon (uncredited) • I Take This Woman (1940) - May - Saleslady (uncredited) • Flight Angels (1940) - Miss Mason • All This, and Heaven Too (1940) - Lady at the Theatre (uncredited) • I Want a Divorce (1940) - Mrs. Tyrell (uncredited) • Margie (1940) - Mrs. Dixon • Melody Comes to Town (1941) - Miss Dunham (final film role) ==References==
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