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In 1952, she formed Carmel Myers Productions, a firm for producing radio and TV programs. The company's productions included Mark Hellinger Tales , a transcribed series of 30-minute radio dramas with Edward Arnold as narrator and Cradle of Stars , a 30-minute filmed TV series with Gregory Ratoff as director and star.
Carmel Myers. Actress: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Though she is little remembered today, silent screen star Carmel Myers had a high-flying career in her heyday and she was ranked among the screen's most glamorous and enticing vamps.
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Mini Bio. Though she is little remembered today, silent screen star Carmel Myers had a high-flying career in her heyday and she was ranked among the screen's most glamorous and enticing vamps. She was born at the turn of the century in San Francisco, the daughter of immigrant parents.
- April 4, 1899
- November 9, 1980
Carmel Myers acted in over seventy films, was an early television talk-show host, led a production company that packaged radio and television shows, held a patent for an electronic synchronizer that controlled studio lights, and imported and distributed French perfume.
Nov 9, 1980 · When her film opportunities dried up, she performed twice a day in vaudeville at the Palace Theatre, wrote both short fiction and a self-help book called Don’t Think About It, and appeared in dozens of television commercials.
Carmel Myers was an American actress successful in, particularly, Silent films. She is best remembered for her performance as Egyptian seductress Iras in the 1925 epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
Although Myers led a rather protected life as a young woman, her dark, sultry beauty made her a natural for the sexy, exotic "vamp" roles that were a feature of romantic films of the 1920s. Her...
