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GRAVE # 4
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Jacqueline Medura Logan
b. November 30, 1901
Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas
d. April 4, 1983
Melbourne, Brevard County, Florida
buried: April 16, 1983
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FATHER
Charles A. Logan
(1872-?)
MOTHER
Mariam D. Kelley
(1873-?)
MARRIED
William Lawrence "Larry" Winston
(1903-1989)
August 1934
Tijuana, Baja, Mexico
divorced in 1947
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CHILDREN
with Larry
NONE
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By age 9, Jacqueline had traveled to Colorado Springs, Colorado for her health. While a teenager she took a course in journalism from Ford Frick, who later became commissioner of Major League Baseball. Setting out to Chicago, Logan found employment dancing in a stage production of a theater. Her family believed she intended to visit an uncle in the windy city and also attend college. To get the, job she lied about her age, and when her uncle found out, he was irate. She was let go from the stage job as a result. She left Chicago and set out for New York City. Again Jacqueline was untruthful regarding her intentions. With her on her trip to New York was a theatrical troupe. She secured a small role in Florodora, a musical on Broadway in 1920. At this time, Flo Ziegfeld noticed her and hired Logan for a job dancing on his Ziegfeld Roof. She replaced Billie Donovan who was leaving to act in films in Hollywood. Together with the Ziegfeld venture Jacqueline modeled as a prestigious Dobbs Girl in Alfred Cheney Johnston photographs. There was also a part in a Johnny Hines' comedy short. Jacqueline was awarded a screen test with the then unknown actor Ben Lyon. Lyon was the husband of Hollywood actress Bebe Daniels and became a prominent figure in the movies. Later he furthered the careers of such stars as Marilyn Monroe. Working for Associated Producers, Logan was featured opposite Jane Peters, the future Carole
Lombard in the film The Perfect Crime (1921). Peters was only a youth, appearing as a pretty blonde
child actress. The same year she played with Mabel Normand in Molly O' (1921). Logan was a WAMPAS
Baby Star of 1922. She was on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht the Oneida in 1924 when film
director Thomas Ince died. The young actress was under contract to Ince at the time. In 1926, Logan
made Footloose Widows with Louise Fazenda and Blood Ship in 1927 with Richard Arlen. Other prominent
leading men whom the actress worked with were Lionel Barrymore, John Barrymore, and Antonio Moreno.
Logan was selected by Cecil B. De Mille for the role of Mary Magdalene in the classic The King of
Kings (1927). The part was much sought after by actresses of the era. The movie broke records for
audience attendance. It was shown somewhere in the world each day for decades after its release.
When talking pictures began the voice of Jacqueline was recorded to accompany her acting part in the original silent film. The actress of silent films was largely unsuccessful in the new medium of talkies. In an early musical, Show of Shows (1929), Logan was a member of an all-star cast. This followed her work in some early and profitable sound films for Columbia Pictures. She went to England to do stage work such as Smoky Cell. This gained for her some good reviews. After completing the English film Middle Watch Jacqueline was awarded a Command Performance. British International Pictures signed her to write and direct. She wrote Knock-Out (1931) and wrote and directed Strictly
Business (1931). Both were successful movies. The new writer/director found herself less in demand
behind the camera when she returned to Hollywood. Columbia Pictures production chief Harry Cohn was
complimentary of her work but unwilling to sign a female director. Logan retired from films
entirely after her marriage in 1934 to William Lawrence "Larry" Winston. Just prior to this she was
part of several Broadway plays like Merrily We Roll Along and Two Strange Women. After divorcing her
industrialist husband in 1947, Jacqueline resided in Westchester County, New York into the late
1960s. She spent her winters in Florida. The remainder of the year she resided in Bedford Hills, New
York. Her last film effort was in the role of Mrs. Donovan in Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman
(1973).
The Decatur Herald
(Decatur, Illinois)
30 OCT 1906 * page 5 |
FILMOGRAPHY
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(1921)
A Perfect Crime
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(1924)
Flaming Barriers
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(1926)
Out of the Storm
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(1928)
The Look Out Girl
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(1921)
White and Unmarried
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(1924)
The Dawn of a Tomorrow
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(1926)
Tony Runs Wild
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(1928)
Nothing to Wear
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(1921)
The Fighting Lover
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(1924)
Code of the Sea
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(1926)
Footloose Widows
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(1928)
Ships of the Night
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(1921)
Molly O
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(1924)
Dynamite Smith
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(1927)
One Hour of Love
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(1928)
The River Woman
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(1921)
Fool's Paradise
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(1924)
The House of Youth
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(1927)
The King of Kings
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(1929)
The Faker
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(1922)
Gay and Devilish
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(1924)
Manhattan
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(1927)
The Blood Ship
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(1929)
Stark Mad
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(1922)
A Tailor-Made Man
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(1925)
A Man Must Live
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(1927)
For Ladies Only
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(1929)
The Bachelor Girl
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(1922)
Saved by Radio
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(1925)
The Sky Raider
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(1927)
The Wise Wife
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(1929)
The King of the Kongo
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(1922)
Burning Sands
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(1925)
Playing with Souls
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(1928)
The Leopard Lady
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(1929)
The Show of Shows
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(1922)
Ebb Tide
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(1925)
If Marriage Fails
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(1928)
Midnight Madness
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(1929)
Sombras habaneras
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(1922)
A Blind Bargain
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(1925)
Thank You
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(1928)
The Beautiful Spy
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(1930)
General Crack
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(1923)
Java Head
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(1925)
Peacock Feathers
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(1928)
The Beautiful Spy
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(1930)
Symphony in Two Flats
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(1923)
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
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(1925)
When the Door Opened
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(1928)
The Cop
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(1930)
The Middle Watch
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(1923)
Sixty Cents an Hour
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(1925)
Wages for Wives
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(1928)
Stocks and Blondes
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(1931)
Strictly Business
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(1923)
Salomy Jane
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(1926)
The Outsider
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(1928)
Power
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(1931)
Shadows
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(1923)
The Light That Failed |
(1926)
White Mice
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(1928)
The Charge of the Gauchos
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(1973)
Naughty Wives
(Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman)
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The Decatur Herald and Review
(Decatur, Illinois)
15 APR 1983
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