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Louise Currie

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Louise Currie

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  • She was the last surviving cast member of Citizen Kane (1941).
  • Widow of both John Good and Grover Asmus.
  • In 2002, she married Grover Asmus, widower of actress Donna Reed.
  • Along with actress Lucille Lund and others, she took part in the documentary film Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997), which detailed the life and acting career of Lugosi.
  • Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book, "They Fought in the Creature Features" (McFarland & Co., 1995).
  • First wife of John Whitney.
  • With the help of her agent, Sue Carol, wife to actor Alan Ladd, she began working with Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures.
  • Most of her movies were B-movies and serials, in which she often portrayed the heroine.
  • On May 4, 1948, she married character actor John Good. He retired from acting, and the two opened a successful antique import-export business in Beverly Hills, remaining together until his death in December 1996.
  • It is definitely the Tom Tyler chapter play, "Adventures of Capt. Marvel", for which Louise is best remembered.
  • She married Robert Hefner, Jr., 1934. Louise went to California, with her baby, Robert Hefner III.
  • She made a few television appearances in the 1950s, retiring permanently from acting in 1956.
  • She attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she became interested in acting.
  • She was the daughter of Charles W. Gunter, a banker, and his wife, Louise (née Currie), whose maiden name she would take for her professional acting surname.
  • She moved to Hollywood, California and attended Max Reinhardt's drama school, where she was spotted by talent scouts while taking part in the school's stage workshop.
  • She was prominent in society. While attending the Martha Washington Seminary, a finishing school for young women in Washington, D.C., she was chosen one of the ten most beautiful society girls in the nation's capital.
  • She declined to attempt screen tests until after graduation.
  • Uncredited in the RKO film for her portrayal of a reporter at Xanadu, Currie had been described as the last known surviving cast member of "Citizen Kane." Sonny Bupp, who played Charles Foster Kane's young son in the 1941 film, was the last surviving credited cast member when he died in 2007 at the age of 79.
  • On May 17, 2010, Currie appeared at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills to introduce a screening of a restored print of the first chapter of the 1941 serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel. She made repeat appearances on May 24, 2010 and August 16, 2010.
  • She appeared first in Billy the Kid Outlawed and then, as a society debutante, in the Kay Kyser musical You'll Find Out.

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