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Jigee Viertel (born Virginia Lee Ray; September 30, 1915 – January 31, 1960) was an actress in early Hollywood pictures and later the wife of screenwriters Budd Schulberg and Peter Viertel. She was active in early Hollywood socialist organizing and later in life was linked to the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ernest Hemingway.
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- Virginia Lee Ray, September 30, 1915, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- actress
- January 31, 1960 (aged 44), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
6 de nov. de 2007 · Peter Viertel, the novelist, memoirist and screenwriter best known for his books chronicling episodes in the lives of Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, has died. He was 86. Viertel died of...
Four recently discovered love letters reveal the players in this ménage à quatre: Ernest Hemingway, fresh from completing Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), his first novel in 10 years; his wife, Mary; Jigee Viertel (née Virginia Ray of Pittsburgh); and Viertel’s husband, Peter, also a writer, who later penned a memoir of ...
Su primera esposa fue Virginia Ray "Jigee" Schulberg, la exesposa del novelista y guionista Budd Schulberg, de quien ella tenía una hija, Vicky. La relación de Jigee con Viertel tuvo un final abrupto con repetidos distanciamientos.
Reputedly dependent on alcohol and sleeping medication, Viertel woke one night in her Los Angeles home and while in the bathroom lit a cigarette that she then dropped inadvertently into the pocket of her dressing gown, causing her immolation. She died from the burns she suffered a month later. Nickname: Jigee.
- Actress
- September 3, 1915
- Virginia Ray
- January 31, 1960
Viertel was married twice, his first wife was Virginia Ray "Jigee" Schulberg, the former wife of Hollywood writer Budd Schulberg. His second wife was the actress Deborah Kerr (from July 23, 1960 until Kerr's death on October 16, 2007). Viertel died of lymphoma nineteen days after Kerr.
21 de dic. de 2007 · Peter Viertel, screen-writer and novelist: born Dresden, Germany 16 November 1920; married first Jigee Ray (died 1960; one daughter; marriage dissolved), secondly 1960 Deborah Kerr (died 2007);...
