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May McAvoy
Film Actress
Female
Born
Sep 8, 1899
Hometown
New York
Died
Apr 26, 1984
Death Place
Los Angeles, Cali...
May McAvoy was an American actress, who worked mainly during the silent-film era. She starred in one of the first so-called talkies, The Jazz Singer.
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Maurice ClearyMarried 1929 - 1973
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CHILDHOOD
1899
Birth
Born on September 8, 1899.
TEENAGE
1917
17 Years Old
McAvoy dropped out of high school and appeared in her first film in 1917 entitled Hate.
TWENTIES
1925
25 Years Old
After appearing in more than three dozen films, McAvoy co-starred with Ramón Novarro and Francis X. Bushman in director Fred Niblo's 1925 production of Ben-Hur released by MGM.
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1929
29 Years Old
McAvoy married banker Maurice Cleary on June 26, 1929, with whom she had a son named Patrick, and divorced him in 1940.
LATE ADULTHOOD
1984
85 Years Old
McAvoy died at the age of 84 in 1984 from the side effects of a heart attack suffered the previous year, and is interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.
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