Mozelle Britton
{{short description|American actress}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Mozelle Britton
| image =
| birth_name = Inehart Mozelle Britton
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|5|2}}
| birth_place = Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1953|5|18|1912|5|12}}
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
| resting_place=Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S.
| alma_mater = Pasadena Playhouse
| occupation = Actress, casting director, and songwriter
| yearsactive = 1930–1936
| spouse = Alan Dinehart (m. 1933–1944, his death)
Thomas W. Gosser (m. 1948–1953, her death; separated prior to her death)
| children = Mason Alan Dinehart
| other_names = Mozelle Brittonne
}}
Inehart Mozelle Britton (May 2, 1912 – May 18, 1953){{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. |date=2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-7992-4 |page=88 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Mozelle+Britton%22&pg=PA88 |accessdate=May 16, 2020 |language=en}} was an American actress, casting director, newspaper columnist, and songwriter. She was sometimes billed as Mozelle Brittonne.{{cite news |last1=Houston |first1=Noel |title=Sara Margaret Keys and Joan Crawford, Childhood Playmates, Meet Again in Magic Land of Hollywood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/594924524/?terms=%22Mozelle%2BBrittonne%22 |accessdate=May 24, 2020 |work=The Oklahoma News |date=October 12, 1934 |location=Oklahoma, Oklahoma City |page=11|via = Newspapers.com}}
Personal life
Britton was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Britton, and she graduated from Classen High School.{{cite news |last1=Houston |first1=Frank |title=A Summer Vacation in California Lands Classen Girl Good Part in Forthcoming Broadway Production |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51982435/mozelle-britton/ |accessdate=May 24, 2020 |work=The Oklahoma News |date=June 1, 1934 |location=Oklahoma, Oklahoma City |page=2|via = Newspapers.com}} She was wed on June 28, 1933.{{cite news |title=Mozelle Brittonne And Dineheart Wed |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51984622/the-san-francisco-examiner/ |accessdate=May 24, 2020 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |agency=Associated Press |date=June 29, 1933 |location=California, San Francisco |page=6|via = Newspapers.com}}
Career
On Broadway, billed as Mozelle Brittone, she portrayed May in Alley Cat (1934) and Linda Roberts in Separate Rooms (1940).{{cite web |title=Mozelle Brittonne |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mozelle-brittonne-33079 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |accessdate=May 24, 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524011734/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/mozelle-brittonne-33079 |archivedate=May 24, 2020}}
Death
Britton died, aged 41, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been under treatment for a heart ailment. According to her sister, Mrs. Allamae Gingg, Britton's death was hastened by overwork. She had been preparing a benefit show in San Diego for the American Cancer Society. She and her first husband are entombed together at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Selected filmography
- 1930 Paramount on Parade
- 1934 The Fighting Ranger
- 1936 Night Waitress
- 1936 Rainbow on the River
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References
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Sources
- Los Angeles Times, May 19, 1953, "Mozelle Dinehart, 41, Widow of actor, Dies".
- Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1953, "Alan Dinehart's Widow Wills Mother estate"
External links
- {{Find a Grave|5895281|Mozelle Britton}}
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Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from Los Angeles
Category:American film actresses
Category:American women songwriters
Category:Classen School of Advanced Studies alumni
Category:Songwriters from Oklahoma
Category:Writers from Los Angeles