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Lilyan Tashman
Actor
Female
Born
Oct 23, 1896
Hometown
Brooklyn, New York
Died
Mar 21, 1934
Death Place
New York City, Ne...
Lilyan Tashman was a Brooklyn-born Jewish American vaudeville, Broadway, and film actress. Tashman was best known for her supporting roles as tongue-in-cheek villainesses and the bitchy 'other woman'. She made sixty-six films over the course of her Hollywood… Read More
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CHILDHOOD
1896
Birth
Born on October 23, 1896.
TEENAGE
Tall, blonde, and slender with fox-like features and a throaty voice, Tashman freelanced as a fashion and artist's model in New York City. By 1914 she was an experienced vaudevillian, appearing in Ziegfeld Follies between 1916 and 1918.
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1916
19 Years Old
In 1916, she played Viola in a Shakespeare-inspired number for the Ziegfeld Follies and remained with the Follies for the 1917 and 1918 seasons.
TWENTIES
1919
22 Years Old
In 1919, producer David Belasco gave her a supporting role in Avery Hopwood's comedy The Gold Diggers.
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1921
24 Years Old
In 1921, Tashman made her film debut playing Pleasure in an allegorical segment of Experience, and when The Gold Diggers closed she appeared in the plays The Garden of Weeds and Madame Pierre.
In 1922, she had a small role in the Mabel Normand film Head Over Heels.
1924
27 Years Old
In 1924, she appeared in five films (including a cinematic adaptation of The Garden of Weeds) and received good reviews for Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model and Winner Take All.
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She married openly gay actor Edmund Lowe in 1925.
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1926
29 Years Old
From 1926 to 1929, she appeared in numerous films, became a valued supporting player, and even starred in the independent Rocking Moon (1926) and The Woman Who Did Not Care (1927).
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THIRTIES
1928
31 Years Old
In 1928, Tashman was introduced to Greta Garbo and began a relationship with her the same day.
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By November 1932, Garbo's patience had worn thin and she ended the relationship, leaving Tashman devastated.
In early 1934, she appeared in Riptide with Norma Shearer.
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