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Article: Obituary: Lili Damita
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 5, 1994
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Liliane Marie Madeleine Carre (Lili Damita), actress: born
Blaye, France 10 July 1904; married secondly 1935 Errol Flynn (died
1959; one son deceased; marriage dissolved 1942), 1962 Allen Loomis
(marriage dissolved); died Palm Beach, Florida 21 March 1994.
LILI DAMITA was a pretty, talented star actress of early
talkies, though now chiefly remembered as the wife of Errol Flynn,
who called her - if not to her face - "Tiger Lil".
They met on a transatlantic liner in 1935. He was a bisexual
adventurer hoping for a career in show- business after making a
semiprofessional film in his native Australia. In Britain he had
played roles with the Northampton rep, and a fleeting appearance in
the West ...