Carmel Myers
Carmel Myers
Those latter-day historians who deride director D.W. Griffith for his alleged anti-Semitism should take note that one of his most famous protégées was Carmel Myers, the daughter of a San Francisco rabbi. Making her film debut with Griffith's Triangle company in 1916, the bewitchingly beautiful Myers went on to star opposite such luminaries as Douglas Fairbanks, John Barrymore, and Rudolph Valentino. She developed into one of screendom's most alluring "vamps," never more so than as Iras in the 1926 version of Ben-Hur. Surviving the talkie revolution, she played a number of good character parts, notably as Barrymore's cast-off mistress in Svengali (1931). Officially retiring in the mid-'40s, Myers resurfaced as a Los Angeles TV hostess in the 1950s; her 15-minute interview series The Carmel Myers Show was picked up by the ABC network in 1951. She continued sporadically accepting acting roles into the 1970s, showing up as herself on an episode of TV's Sanford and Son, and joining dozens of other movie veterans to play a cameo role in the 1976 feature Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood. The sister of screenwriter Zion Myers, Carmel Myers was also the mother of novelist Ralph Blum and actresses Susan Adams Kennedy and Mary Ufland. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Carmel Myers:
- Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood with Bruce Dern , Madeline Kahn , Art Carney , Phil Silvers , Ron Leibman , Teri Garr , Robert Alda , Edward Ashley , Billy Barty , William Benedict , Edgar Bergen , Janet Blair , Joan Blondell , John Carradine , Jack Carter , Cyd Charisse , Jackie Coogan , Broderick Crawford , Yvonne DeCarlo , Gloria DeHaven , William Demarest , Andy Devine , Alice Faye , Fritz Feld , Stepin Fetchit , Rhonda Fleming , Eddie Jr. Foy , Zsa Zsa Gabor , Shecky Greene , Huntz Hall , Dick Haymes , Sterling Holloway , Jack LaRue , Dorothy Lamour , Peter Lawford , Phil Leeds , Keye Luke , Guy Madison , Victor Mature , Virginia Mayo , Mike Mazurki , Ethel Merman , Ann Miller , Ricardo Montalban , Dennis Morgan , Patricia Morison , Barbara Nichols , Louis Nye , Walter Pidgeon , Aldo Ray , Ann Rutherford , Dean Stockwell , Regis Toomey , Rudy Vallee , Doodles Weaver , Jesse White , Henny Youngman , Morey Amsterdam , Milton Berle , Rory Calhoun , Tab Hunter , George Jessel , Fernando Lamas , Ken Murray , Nancy Walker , Henry Wilcoxon
Carmel Myers Trivia
