JETTA GOUDAL

Jetta Goudal (born Julie Henriette Goudeket) was a Dutch actress from the 1920s to the 1930s. She was Dutch and Jewish, but when she came to America in 1918, she pretended to be French, and immediately had success on Broadway. That attracted the attention of Cecil B. DeMille, who hired her to make movies, but they clashed repeatedly, and in 1927, DeMille terminated her, and she sued him, and she won the suit, which was a first for an actor, and she continued to fight for actors' rights, which gave her the nickname "The Joan of Arc of Equity". Unfortunately, she had a thick accent, and the coming of sound ended her career. She married an art director in 1930 and retired. Some of her movies include The Green Goddess, The Road to Yesterday, and The Forbidden Woman. She passed away in 1985 at the age of 93.