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)
    Youngblood Hawke (4-Nov-1964)
    Return to Peyton Place (5-May-1961)
    A Kiss Before Dying (12-Jun-1956)
    Little Women (10-Mar-1949)
    Act of Violence (21-Dec-1948)
    Cass Timberlane (6-Nov-1947)
    Desert Fury (15-Aug-1947)
    Fiesta (12-Jun-1947)
    Meet Me in St. Louis (28-Nov-1944)
    Thousands Cheer (13-Sep-1943)
    Young Ideas (2-Aug-1943)
    The Palm Beach Story (2-Nov-1942)
    Across the Pacific (4-Sep-1942)
    The Maltese Falcon (3-Oct-1941)
    The Great Lie (5-Apr-1941)
    Brigham Young: Frontiersman (20-Sep-1940)
    Turnabout (17-May-1940)
    Midnight (15-Mar-1939)
    Listen, Darling (18-Oct-1938)
    Paradise for Three (15-Feb-1938)
    The Hurricane (9-Nov-1937)
    The Prisoner of Zenda (2-Sep-1937)
    Dodsworth (23-Sep-1936)
    Red Hot Tires (25-Oct-1935)
    Page Miss Glory (7-Sep-1935)
    Dinky (11-May-1935)
    The Man with Two Faces (4-Aug-1934)
    The World Changes (25-Nov-1933)
    The Kennel Murder Case (28-Oct-1933)
    Red Dust (22-Oct-1932)
    A Successful Calamity (17-Sep-1932)
    Holiday (3-Jul-1930)
    The Show of Shows (21-Nov-1929) Herself
    Two Arabian Knights (23-Sep-1927)
    Don Juan (6-Aug-1926)
    Beau Brummel (30-Mar-1924)

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

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