Trivia

Silent-screen actor, formerly leading man and paramour to a considerably Sarah Bernhardt.

The illegitimate son of a Spanish dancer and a general in the army of Queen Wilhemina.

Tellegen suffered severe burns when he fell asleep with a lighted cigarette in his Atlantic City hotel on Christmas Day, 1929. He underwent extensive plastic surgery in 1931.

Author of autobiography, Women Have Been Kind," was published in 1932.

The day after Tellegen's suicide, actress Florence Turner told newspapers that for the past 14 years, she had been having an affair with Tellegen.