Lois Moran
Toronto Daily Star, May 8 1928
Lois Moran (1909-1990) experienced tragedy early in life: her father died in a car crash when she was one year old and her stepfather, Dr. Timothy Moran, died in 1918 in the Spanish flu pandemic. When she was 12, she and her mother moved to Paris, and she sang and danced in the Paris National Opera when she was 13.
Ms. Moran appeared in movies regularly between 1925 and 1931 and in Broadway productions from 1930 to 1934. In 1927, she had a brief affair with F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was in Hollywood to work as a scriptwriter; a character in his novel Tender Is The Night is apparently based on her.
In 1935, she married Clarence M. Young, the assistant secretary of commerce, and she retired from acting. They remained together until his death in 1973.
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