Allyn King ( Eng. Allyn King ; February 1, 1899 - March 31, 1930) is an American theater and film actress who began her career in vaudeville and later played in Siegfeld’s Madness .
| Allin King | |
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| English Allyn king | |
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| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | actress singer |
| Career | 1914-1927 |
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King's suicide in 1930 was the result of her constant attempts to satisfy the demand of directors and producers to remain abnormally thin.
Content
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 2.1 Career decline
- 3 Personal life
- 4 Death
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Early life
King was born in North Carolina to Allen S. and Phoebe (née Whitaker). A year after her birth, the King family lived in Winston (now Winston-Salem ). Allen King was a native of Louisiana, and in the early 1900s, having received a degree, returned to his home state to practice medicine in Morgan City . The Phoebe King family was originally from Goldsboro , located approximately 54 miles southeast of Raleigh , where Allin King later lived [1] [2] [3] according to press reports.
On May 19, 1909, Leroy Oliver, the sixteen-year-old son of a deceased doctor, came to the city office of Dr. King, where he shot him. Oliver later told police that Dr. King allegedly used his sister. At the time of the murder of her husband, Phoebe King and her daughter, Phoebe and Ellin, were visiting relatives in North Carolina [4] .
Career
King's stage career began at an early age. By the time she was 15 years old, she performed in vaudeville as a singing comedian in New York's Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theater [5] , and the next year she acted as a comedian and dancer in the Siegfeld play Top-O-The -Clock Review [6] .
In September 1916, she replaced the popular actress Justin Johnson , after she left due to the refusal of Florence Siegfeld Jr. to allow her boyfriend to visit her locker room [7] . King stayed with Siegfeld for five seasons before gaining modest success on Broadway in the early 1920s.
In 1920, she played the role of Alicia Bonner in the successful comedy production of Avery Hoopwood Women's night , which was staged 360 times at the Eltinge Theater on 42nd Street . And in 1924 she played the role of Louise Endicott in the comedy musical of William Lebaron and Kon Conrad Moonlight , staged 174 times at the Longacre Theater . In 1925, King performed in the performance of Seduction , in which dancing harem girls also participated. Her other Broadway shows were: Sun Showers (1923), Florida Girl (1925) and 90 Horsepower (1926). All of them were set for a short time [8] .
King also appeared in at least one silent film, The Fighting Blade (1923), where she played the role of Charlotte Musgrove, sister Tomsin, whose lover is Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbruck, who came to England to serve in the army of Oliver Cromwell [9] .
Career Decline
In 1927, King nearly died after a dietary sting related to hunger and diet pills, trying to maintain a boyish figure, fashionable at the time. She spent almost two years in a sanatorium before setting off to live with her aunt in New York. King's desire to weigh between 20 and 30 pounds below her optimal weight was explained by the following clause in her current contract.
This [part] is specially included in this contract and is its key part, therefore, if at any time during the term of this contract you gain more than 16 pounds or lose more than 10 pounds, or if you allow the size of the coverage of any part of your body will deviate more than half an inch from the following figures, weight - 115 pounds, neck coverage - 12.5 inches, bust - 34 inches, upper arm - 11, lower - 7.5, waist - 26, pelvis - 34, bird - 18, calves - 12, ankles - 8.5, then in case of this we will have the right to terminate this contract with notification of you b this week before [10] .
After leaving the sanatorium to live with her aunt, King studied music with a view to a possible career on the radio.
Personal life
In 1924, King was reportedly engaged to Karl Wiedemann, a wealthy brewer from Newport, Kentucky. Also, according to the memoirs, he was the owner of a racing horse [11] . Wiedemann later said: “I am not married and not engaged.” [12]
Death
On March 29, 1930, King jumped from the fifth floor of her aunt’s New York apartment. She left a note where she regretted that she would not be able to return to Broadway. King survived the fall, having received fractures of her limbs and skull, and her doctors were sure that she could recover. Although King was in her mind and health, her condition worsened and she died from injuries on March 31, 1930. A year earlier, the death of the German actress Marietta Milner was also due to an excessive diet to fulfill her contractual obligations [13] [14] [15] .
About 2,000 people attended the King’s funeral ceremony on April 2 at Campbell Funeral Church Broadway and 66th Street , after which Mount Hope Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson (now known as Westchester Cemetery) -Hills ”) a private ceremony was held at which her mother, sister, close friends and family attended [16] .
Notes
- ↑ Miss King Lived in Goldsboro 20 Years Ago, Burlington Daily Time (March 3, 1930), S. 2.
- ↑ North Carolina Presents, Laurel Daily Leader (June 20, 1924), p. 1.
- ↑ Allen and Phoebe King - Winston, NC-1900 US Census Records - Ancestry.com scan
- ↑ Boy Kills Physician, New York Tribune (May 20, 1909), p. 1.
- ↑ For Vaudeville Patrons, The New York Times (February 22, 1914), S. X7.
- ↑ When "Candida" Was New, The New York Times (May 16, 1915), S. X7.
- ↑ Follies Beauty Quits, Syracuse Herald-Journal (October 17, 1916), p. 96.
- ↑ King, Allin (English) on the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ " King, Allin ” on the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Failure to Keep Boyish Figure Causes Suicide, Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (March 31, 1930), p. 14.
- ↑ Cupid Wins At Race Track , The Southeast Missourian (January 11, 1924), p. 6. Date of access March 18, 2015.
- ↑ Wiedman Denies He Will Wed Star, Sandusky Register (November 27, 1923), p. 1.
- ↑ Ill. From Dieting Singer Tries to Die, The New York Times (March 30, 1930), p. 22.
- ↑ Miss King, Actress, Dies After Leap, The New York Times (March 31, 1930), p. 12.
- ↑ Addison, Heather. Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture. - Psychology Press, 2003. - P. 87. - ISBN 0-415-94676-X .
- ↑ 200 Attend Funeral of Allyn King, Here, The New York Times (April 2, 1930), p. 22.
Links
- Ellin King on the Internet Broadway Database
- Ellin King on the Internet Movie Database