AKA Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke

Born: 3-May-1906
Birthplace: Quincy, IL
Died: 25-Sep-1987
Location of death: Woodland Hills, CA
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, CA

Gender: Female
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Maltese Falcon

Father: Otto Ludwig Wilhelm Langhanke (d. 1943)
Mother: Helen Vasconcellos
Husband: Kenneth Hawks (m. 1928, d. 2-Jan-1930, mid-air plane crash)
Husband: Franklyn Thorpe (m. 1931, div. 1936)
Husband: Manuel del Campo (m. 1936, div 1941)
Husband: Thomas Wheelock (m. 25-Dec-1945, div. 1955)
Daughter: Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe (b. 16-Jun-1932, with Franklyn)
Son: Anthony ("Tono", b. 1939)
Boyfriend: John Barrymore (extramarital affair)
Boyfriend: George S. Kaufman (extramarital affair, 1933)

    Alcoholics Anonymous 1951
    Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1942 for The Great Lie
    Hollywood Walk of Fame 6701 Hollywood Blvd.
    Nervous Breakdown
    Converted to Catholicism 1951
    Suicide Attempt 1951
    Heart Attack
    Stroke twice
    unknown detox facility (alcoholism) 1949
    German Ancestry Paternal
    Irish Ancestry Maternal
    Portuguese Ancestry Maternal
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Smoking, Emphysema

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (15-Dec-1964) · Jewel Mayhew
    Youngblood Hawke (4-Nov-1964)
    Return to Peyton Place (5-May-1961) · Mrs. Roberta Carter
    A Stranger in My Arms (3-Mar-1959)
    This Happy Feeling (18-Jun-1958)
    The Devil's Hairpin (4-Oct-1957)
    The Power and the Prize (26-Sep-1956)
    A Kiss Before Dying (12-Jun-1956)
    Any Number Can Play (2-Jul-1949)
    Little Women (10-Mar-1949) · Marmee
    Act of Violence (21-Dec-1948) · Pat
    Cass Timberlane (6-Nov-1947)
    Cynthia (29-Aug-1947)
    Desert Fury (15-Aug-1947) · Fritzi Haller
    Fiesta (12-Jun-1947)
    Claudia and David (25-Feb-1946)
    Blonde Fever (5-Dec-1944)
    Meet Me in St. Louis (28-Nov-1944) · Mrs. Anna Smith
    Thousands Cheer (13-Sep-1943)
    Young Ideas (2-Aug-1943)
    The Palm Beach Story (2-Nov-1942) · The Princess Centimillia
    Across the Pacific (4-Sep-1942)
    The Maltese Falcon (3-Oct-1941) · Brigid O'Shaughnessy
    The Great Lie (5-Apr-1941)
    Brigham Young: Frontiersman (20-Sep-1940)
    Turnabout (17-May-1940)
    Midnight (15-Mar-1939) · Helene Flammarion
    Listen, Darling (18-Oct-1938) · Mrs. Dorothy Wingate
    There's Always a Woman (20-Apr-1938)
    Paradise for Three (15-Feb-1938) · Mrs. Irene Mallebre
    The Hurricane (9-Nov-1937) · Madame DeLaage
    The Prisoner of Zenda (2-Sep-1937) · Antoinette de Mauban
    Dodsworth (23-Sep-1936) · Edith Cortright
    And So They Were Married (10-May-1936)
    Red Hot Tires (25-Oct-1935)
    Page Miss Glory (7-Sep-1935)
    Dinky (11-May-1935)
    I Am a Thief (24-Nov-1934)
    The Case of the Howling Dog (22-Sep-1934)
    The Man with Two Faces (4-Aug-1934)
    Upperworld (28-Apr-1934) · Mrs. Hettie Stream
    Easy to Love (13-Jan-1934)
    The World Changes (25-Nov-1933)
    The Kennel Murder Case (28-Oct-1933) · Hilda Lake
    Jennie Gerhardt (9-Jun-1933)
    The Little Giant (14-Apr-1933) · Ruth Wayburn
    Red Dust (22-Oct-1932) · Barbara Willis
    A Successful Calamity (17-Sep-1932)
    The Lost Squadron (10-Mar-1932)
    Men of Chance (26-Dec-1931) · Marthe
    The Sin Ship (18-Apr-1931)
    Other Men's Women (17-Jan-1931)
    Holiday (3-Jul-1930)
    Two Arabian Knights (23-Sep-1927)
    Don Juan (6-Aug-1926)
    Don Q, Son of Zorro (15-Jun-1925)
    Beau Brummel (30-Mar-1924)

Author of books:
My Story: An Autobiography (1959, memoir)
A Life on Film (1971, memoir)

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