Her soft Irish beauty highlighted many films in the late 1920s and 1930s, but film actress Lois Moran's major claim to fame was as F. Scott Fitzgerald's inspiration for the character of "Rosemary" in his classic novel Tender Is the Night. Lois trained in dance while young and moved to Paris with her mother at the age of 10 to study seriously. She ...
In 1930, she lived at 517 N. Elm Drive in Beverly Hills.
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She had an affair with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was a screenwriter in Hollywood. This inspired his book, "Tender is the Night", and several short stories.
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Her much older husband, Clarence Young, was the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, under Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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One son with Young.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald reportedly based the character Rosemary on Moran when he wrote "Tender is the Night."