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Nita Naldi

Born 1 April 1897 in New York, New York, USA, as Anita Donna Dooley.
Died 17 February 1961 in the Hotel Wentworth, New York, New York, USA, of heart failure.

Married J. Searle Barclay, 1929; until his death, 30 January 1945.

Nita Naldi began entertainment work as a Ziegfeld girl on Broadway. She soon turned to motion pictures and made her mark in a series of roles that made good use of her dark, exotic looks. Among Nita Naldi’s most-famous films are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Blood and Sand (1922), The Ten Commandments (1923) and Cobra (1925).

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