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Addie McPhail

{{short description|American actress (1905–2003)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Addie McPhail

| image = Addie McPhail - Jul 1927 UW.jpg

| caption = From a 1927 magazine

| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|07|15}}

| birth_place = White Plains, Kentucky, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|04|14|1905|07|15}}

| death_place = Canoga Park, California, U.S.

| yearsactive = 1927–1941

| spouse = Lindsay McPhail
{{Marriage|Fatty Arbuckle|1932|1933|end=died}}

| children = 1

}}

Addie McPhail (July 15, 1905 – April 14, 2003) was an American film actress.

Early years

McPhail was born Addie Dukes in White Plains, Kentucky, on July 15, 1905. Her parents were Van and Cordelia Dukes, and she attended schools in Madisonville and Providence, Kentucky.{{cite news |title=... actress and queen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-messenger-addie-mcphail/147559928/ |access-date=May 17, 2024 |work=The Messenger |date=September 6, 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517155147/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-messenger-addie-mcphail/147559928/ |archive-date=May 17, 2024 |location=Kentucky, Madisonville |page=19|via = Newspapers.com }} Her father worked in insurance, and the family often moved. They went to Chicago in 1911 and "settled for a long period". While there, she won several contests on stage. They went to Hollywood in 1925, a move that McPhail considered to be fate because she wanted to be an actress.

Career

McPhail began her work in films with Stern Brothers, a studio that produced short comedies that Universal distributed. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1927 and 1941.{{Citation needed |date=May 2024}} The physical demands of comedy gradually diminished McPhail's interest in acting, and she later said, "May I was never the actress I wanted to be." Her film career ended with Northwest Passage (1940).

Personal life and death

McPhail's first husband was Lindsay McPhail, a pianist and songwriter with whom she had a daughter. She was the third and last wife of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. After she retired from acting, she served for 17 years as a volunteer nurse at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.{{cite news |last1=Mewse |first1=Austin M. |title=How Fatty fell for me |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/jul/21/culture.features3 |accessdate=September 2, 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=July 21, 2000}}

McPhail died of undisclosed causes in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, on April 14, 2003.{{cite news |last1=McLellan |first1=Dennis |title=Addie McPhail, 97; Actress, Last Wife of 'Fatty' Arbuckle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-addie-dukes/26881661/ |access-date=May 17, 2024 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=May 5, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517150254/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-addie-dukes/26881661/ |archive-date=May 17, 2024 |page=B 9|via = Newspapers.com }}

Selected filmography

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References

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External links

  • {{IMDb name|574149|Addie McPhail}}

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Category:1905 births

Category:2003 deaths

Category:American film actresses

Category:American silent film actresses

Category:People from Hopkins County, Kentucky

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:21st-century American women

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