Ben Lyon
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Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American actor and a studio executive at 20th Century Fox.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Lyon entered films in 1918 after a successful appearance on Broadway opposite Jeanne Eagels. He attracted attention in the highly successful film Flaming Youth (1923), and steadily developed into a leading man. He was most successfully paired with some of the leading actresses of the silent era including Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Colleen Moore, Barbara La Marr, Viola Dana, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mary Astor and Blanche Sweet.
He had success as an actor in the 1930 film Hell's Angels. The film was a major success and brought Jean Harlow to prominence, but Lyon's performance as an heroic World War I aviator was also highly regarded. For the next decade he was constantly in demand, but his popularity began to wane by the early 1940s. By the mid-1940s he was working for 20th Century Fox. On July 17, 1946 he met a young aspiring actress named Norma Jeane Dougherty.[2] After his first meeting with her he stated that she was "Jean Harlow all over again!". He organized a color screen test for the actress, renamed her, and finally signed her as Marilyn Monroe to her first studio contract.
During World War II, Lyons and his wife, actress Bebe Daniels, settled in London. The couple, along with the comedian Vic Oliver, starred in the radio series Hi, Gang!, which ran from 1940 to 1949. Hi Gang was succeeded in 1950 by Life with the Lyons, which also featured their real life son Richard and daughter Barbara, and had a run on BBC and independent television from 1954 until 1960.
Lyon married actress Bebe Daniels in June 1930. They had two children: daughter Barbara in 1932 and a son Richard whom they adopted. Daniels suffered a severe stroke in 1963 and withdrew from public life. She suffered a second stroke in late 1970. She died at the couple's London home in March 1971.
In 1974, Lyon married the actress Marian Nixon whom he had known since the 1920s.
On March 22, 1979, Lyon and his second wife Marian Nixon were vacationing together on the Queen Elizabeth 2 cruise ship near Honolulu, Hawaii, when Lyon suffered a fatal heart attack. He is interred in the Chapel Columbarium at Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to his first wife, Bebe.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ben Lyon has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1724 Vine Street.
Fotos
Películas (73)
The Lyons in Paris
1955 · Ben
Life with the Lyons
1954 · Ben Lyon
The Dark Tower
1943 · Phil Danton
This Was Paris
1942 · Butch, Sydney Chronicle Reporter
Hi Gang!
1941 · Her Other Half
Confidential Lady
1939 · Jim Brent
I Killed the Count
1939 · Bernard Froy
Stardust
1938 · Roy Harley
Down to the Sea
1936 · Steve Londos
Dancing Feet
1936 · Peyton Wells
Frisco Waterfront
1935 · Glenn Burton
Navy Wife
1935 · Dr. Peter Milford
Together We Live
1935 · Max
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 8
1935
Lightning Strikes Twice
1934 · Steve Brewster
Crimson Romance
1934 · Bob Wilson
I Spy
1934 · Wally Sawyer
The Women in His Life
1933 · Roger McKane
I Cover the Waterfront
1933 · H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller
Girl Missing
1933 · Henry Gibson
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932 · Self
Hat Check Girl
1932 · Buster Collins
The Crooked Circle
1932 · Brand Osborne
Hollywood on Parade No. A-1
1932 · Self
By Whose Hand?
1932 · Jimmy Hawley
Week Ends Only
1932 · Jack Williams
The Big Timer
1932 · Cooky Bradford
Lady with a Past
1932 · Guy Bryson
Her Majesty, Love
1931 · Fred von Wellingen
Compromised
1931 · Sidney Brock
Bought!
1931 · Nick Amory
Night Nurse
1931 · Mortie
My Past
1931 · Robert 'Bob' Byrne
Aloha
1931 · Jimmy Bradford
Indiscreet
1931 · Tony Blake
Misbehaving Ladies
1931 · Phil Hunter
The Stolen Jools
1931 · Ben Lyon
The Hot Heiress
1931 · Hap Harrigan
Hell's Angels
1930 · Monte Rutledge
A Soldier's Plaything
1930 · Georgie
What Men Want
1930 · Kendall James
Alias French Gertie
1930 · Jimmy Hartigan
Lummox
1930 · Rollo Farley
The Flying Marine
1929 · Steve Moran
The Quitter
1929 · Neal Abbott
All Faces West
1929 · Matthew
The Air Legion
1929 · Dave Grayson
Das tanzende Wien
1927 · Jonny Conzaga
Life in Hollywood No. 2
1927 · Himself
For the Love of Mike
1927 · Mike
The Tender Hour
1927 · Wally McKenzie
The Perfect Sap
1927 · Herbert Alden
The Prince of Tempters
1926 · Francis
The Great Deception
1926 · Cyril Mansfield
The Savage
1926 · Danny Terry
The Reckless Lady
1926 · Ralph Hilliwe
Bluebeard's Seven Wives
1926 · John Hart / Don Juan Hartez
The New Commandment
1925 · Billy Morrow
The Pace That Thrills
1925 · Danny Wade
Winds of Chance
1925 · Pierce Phillips
The Necessary Evil
1925 · Frank Jerome
One Way Street
1925 · Bobby Austin
So Big
1924 · Dirk DeJong
Wages of Virtue
1924 · Marvin
Wine of Youth
1924 · Lynn Talbot
Lily of the Dust
1924 · Lt. Prell
The White Moth
1924 · Douglas Vantine
Painted People
1924 · Don Lane
Flaming Youth
1923 · Monty Standish
Potash and Perlmutter
1923 · Boris Andrieff
The Custard Cup
1923 · Dick Chase
The Heart of Maryland
1921 · Bob Telfair
Open Your Eyes
1919 · Harold Connors
