LOU TELLEGEN

Lou Tellegen (born Isadore Louis Bernard van Dommelem) was a Dutch actor from the 1910s to the 1930s. He traveled Europe and South America doing odd jobs, marrying a Countess at 22 and divorcing her 2 years later, and he also worked in a circus and he eventually met Sarah Bernhardt, who made him her leading man on stage on stage, and starred opposite her in the very early feature film, 1912's "Queen Elizabeth". In 1916, he married actress Geraldine Farrar, the opera singer. They divorced in 1923, and he immediately married Nina Romano, and he helped her become an actress. In 1929, after divorcing again, tragedy struck when he fell asleep with a lit cigarette, and suffered major burns. After plastic surgery, he married again for the fourth and final time. He divorced again in 1932, and in 1934, debt-ridden and ill, he committed suicide by stabbing himself with scissors while surrounded by newspaper clippings of his career. He was 52 years old. Some of his films include: The Explorer, Flame of the Desert, and 3 Bad Men. He wrote an autobiography, and he titled it "Women Have Been Kind", and he was certainly quite the "ladies man"!