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Verree Teasdale

{{short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Verree Teasdale

| image = Verree Teasdale Argentinean Magazine AD.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Teasdale, c. 1933

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date|1903|03|15|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Spokane, Washington, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1987|02|17|1903|03|15|mf=y}}

| death_place = Culver City, California, U.S.

| othername = Veree Teasdale
Marion O'Neal

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1924–c.1950

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{marriage|William J. O'Neal
    |1927|1933|end=divorced}}
  • {{marriage|Adolphe Menjou
    |1935|1963|end=died}}

}}

| children = 1

}}

Verree Teasdale (March 15, 1903 – February 17, 1987) was an American actress born in Spokane, Washington.

Early years

A cousin to poet Sara Teasdale and second cousin of Edith Wharton,{{cite news |title=Players Playing 'Possum |work=The Evening Star |date=July 6, 1930 |location=Washington, D.C. |page=43 |via = Newspapers.com}} Teasdale attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and trained as a stage actress with the Institute Players at the Academy of Music.{{cite news |title='Miss Lulu Bett' At The Academy |work=Brooklyn Times Union |date=March 7, 1924 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}}

Career

File:Veree Teasdale in First Lady trailer cropped.jpg from First Lady (1937)]]

Teasdale debuted on Broadway, straight from the Institute Players, as the "caustic-tongued poseur" Augusta Winslow Martin in The Youngest (1924).{{cite news |author=A. J. B. |title=The New Play |work=Brooklyn Times Union |date=December 23, 1924 |location=Brooklyn, New York |page=6 |via = Newspapers.com}} She performed regularly on Broadway until 1932.{{cite web |title=Verree Teasdale |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/verree-teasdale-68872 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=November 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160724015742/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/verree-teasdale-68872 |archive-date=July 24, 2016}}

After co-starring in Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife with Ethel Barrymore in 1926–1927, she was offered a film contract, and her first film, Syncopation, was released in 1929. Teasdale appeared older than her physical age, which enabled her to play bored society wives, scheming other women and second leads in comedies such as Roman Scandals (1933). In 1935, she played Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream.{{cn|date=August 2023}}

Personal life and death

Teasdale married actor William O'Neal in 1927, and they divorced in 1933.{{cite news |title=Verree Teasdale freed |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/100586114 |access-date=November 6, 2020 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=January 28, 1933 |page=14|id={{ProQuest|100586114}} |via = ProQuest}} In 1935, she married actor Adolphe Menjou, and they remained together until his death in 1963. Teasdale and Menjou appeared together in two films, The Milky Way in 1936 and Turnabout in 1940, and were co-hosts of a syndicated radio program in the late 1940s and early 1950s.{{Citation needed |date=November 2020}} A June 19, 1949, review by Jack Gould in The New York Times said Meet the Menjous "easily is among the most literate and enjoyable items on the daytime schedule".{{cite news |last1=Gould |first1=Jack |title=Programs in Review |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/105830934 |access-date=November 6, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=June 19, 1949 |page=X 9|id={{ProQuest|105830934}} |via = ProQuest}}

Teasdale retired after the radio program finished its run, keeping busy with her hobby of costume design. She died on February 17, 1987, in Culver City, California.{{Citation needed |date=October 2021}}

Broadway theater<ref name="broadway" />

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  • The Youngest, from December 22, 1924, to March 23, 1925 - Augusta Winslow Martin
  • The Morning After, from July 27, 1925, to August 1925 - Mrs. Madera
  • The Master of the Inn, from December 21, 1925, to January 1926 - Harriet Norton
  • Buy, Buy, Baby, from October 07, 1926, to October 1926 - Pauline Lunt
  • The Constant Wife, from November 29, 1926, to August 13, 1927 - Marie-Louise Durham
  • By Request, from September 27, 1928, to October 1928 - Claudia Wynn
  • Precious, from January 14, 1929, to February 1929 - Sonia
  • Nice Women, from June 10, 1929, to August 1929 - Dorothy Drew
  • Soldiers and Women, from September 02, 1929, to October 1929 - Helen Arnold
  • The Royal Virgin, from March 17, 1930, to March 1930 - The Countess of Nottingham
  • The Greeks Had a Word for It, from September 25, 1930, to May 1931 - Jean
  • Marriage for Three, from November 11, 1931, to November 1931 - Peggy Howard
  • Experience Unnecessary, from December 30, 1931, to February 1932 - Theda Thompson

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Complete filmography

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Category:1903 births

Category:1987 deaths

Category:American film actresses

Category:Burials at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Category:Actresses from Spokane, Washington

Category:American stage actresses

Category:American radio actresses

Category:20th-century American actresses