Sheilah Graham was born on September 15, 1904 in Leeds, England as Lily Shiel. She was an actress and writer, known for Sheilah Graham in Hollywood (1951), Gregory Peck: A Living Biography (1977) and Jiggs and Maggie in Society (1947). She was married to Stanley Wojtkiewicz, Trevor Westbrook and John Graham Gillam. She died on November 17, 1988 in...
I was never a mistress. I was a woman who loved F. Scott Fitzgerald, for better or worse, until he died.
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No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
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Born to impoverished parents in an East London slum. Her father died of tuberculosis while she was in her infancy. Her mother, a domestic, was unable to provide for her and she ended up in an orphanage.
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Her first job was in the iron and steel company of her then husband, Major John Graham Dillam.
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Had a brief stint at RADA before being signed as a chorus girl by impresario C.B.Cochran.
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From 1933 worked in New York as writer for the New York Mirror and The Evening Journal. Moved to LA in 1935, after being offered the North American Newspaper Alliance's syndicated Hollywood column.
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In 1937, she was engaged to Marquess of Donegall. She broke it off when she met F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Her daughter was named Wendy Westbrook Fairey. Wendy was born during Graham's marriage to Trevor Westbrook and given his name, but she was in fact the daughter of British Philosopher A.J. Ayer. Wendy was not told of her true parentage until she was an adult.
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She was the inspiration for the heroine, Kathleen, in F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon". To show her love, she declined his offer to add a codicil to his will leaving her the royalties from "The Last Tycoon".
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