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Sharon Lynn

{{short description|American actress and singer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2014}}

{{infobox person

| name = Sharon Lynn

| image = Sharon Lynn Stars of the Photoplay.jpg

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| caption = Lynn in 1930

| birth_name = D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay

| birth_date = {{birth date|1901|4|9}}

| birth_place = Weatherford, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1963|5|26|1901|4|9}}

| death_place = Hollywood, California, U.S.

| restingplace =

| education = Fullerton Union High School

| occupation = Actress, singer

| yearsactive = 1924–1938

| spouse = Benjamin Glazer (1932–1956) (his death)
John Sershen (1961–1963) (her death)

}}

Sharon Lynn (born D'Auvergne Sharon Lindsay, April 9, 1901{{Citation needed |date=June 2023}} – May 26, 1963) was an American actress and singer. She began playing in silent films but enjoyed her biggest success in the early sound years of motion pictures before fading away in the mid-1930s. She is perhaps best known for portraying Lola Marcel, the villainess in the Laurel and Hardy comedy feature, Way Out West.

Early years

Lynn was born in Weatherford, Texas.{{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Scott|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. (2 volume set)|date=2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786479924|page=462|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=%22D%27Auvergne+Sharon+Lindsay%22&pg=PA462|access-date=16 March 2018|language=en}} She moved to Fullerton, California, at a young age and was educated in Fullerton's public schools. Later she was a student at the Paramount Motion Picture School.{{cite news|title=Grit Helped Actress|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18360755/sharon_lynn/|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=January 19, 1930|location=Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh|page=56|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 16, 2018}} {{Open access}}

Career

Lynn made her debut in Curlytop in 1924 as Annie, and after appearing in several silent films, she debuted in talking pictures in Speakeasy (1929).{{cite news|title=Sharon Lynn in First Dialogue|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18361037/sharon_lynn/|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=March 22, 1929|location=California, Los Angeles|page=33|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 16, 2018}} {{Open access}} After her best known film role opposite Laurel and Hardy in Way Out West, she made only one more film, a musical made in Britain, Thistledown, and then retired from the screen.

Personal life

On January 16, 1932, in Yuma, Arizona, Lynn married film executive Benjamin Glazer{{cite news|title=Waiting Crowd at Yuma Turns 'Quiet Wedding' of Film Actress and Producer Into Gala Event|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18360112/sharon_lynn/|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|agency=Associated Press|date=January 17, 1932|location=Pennsylvania, Philadelphia|page=2|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 16, 2018}} {{Open access}} who died in 1956. She was also wed to John Sershen.Silent Film Necrology p. 329 2nd edition c. 2001 by Eugene Michael Vazzana

Death

On May 26, 1963, Lynn died at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital, at age 62 of multiple sclerosis.{{cite news|title=Actress Sharon Lynn Succumbs in Hollywood|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18360465/sharon_lynn/|work=The Holland Evening Sentinel|agency=United Press International|date=May 28, 1963|location=Michigan, Holland|page=16|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 16, 2018}} {{Open access}}{{cite news|title=Actress Sharon Lynn Dies|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/18360654/sharon_lynn/|work=Arizona Republic|agency=United Press International|date=May 28, 1963|location=Arizona, Phoenix|page=82|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = March 16, 2018}} {{Open access}}

Partial filmography

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References

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External links

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  • {{IMDb name|0528800}}
  • {{tcmdb name|id=1170759|name=Sharon Lynn}}
  • [http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/sayre/searchterm/sharon%20lynn/field/all/mode/all/conn/and/cosuppress/ Portrait gallery] (University of Washington, Sayre collection)

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Category:1901 births

Category:1963 deaths

Category:American film actresses

Category:Hal Roach Studios actors

Category:People from Weatherford, Texas

Category:Actresses from Texas

Category:Singers from Texas

Category:20th-century American actresses

Category:20th-century American singers

Category:Neurological disease deaths in California

Category:Deaths from multiple sclerosis

Category:People with multiple sclerosis

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