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Fritzi Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American silent film actress, vaudeville performer, and hotelier. Although she starred in numerous films, she is perhaps best known for her work in silent Western films.
Fritzi Ridgeway was born on 8 April 1898 in Missoula, Montana, USA. She was an actress, known for Ruggles of Red Gap (1923), Face Value (1927) and The Fire Flingers (1919). She was married to C. Bakaleinikoff and Walter Simms. She died on 29 March 1961 in Lancaster, California, USA.
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Fritzi Ridgeway was a silent film actress who starred in 63 movies from 1916 to 1934. She also built a hotel in Palm Springs and married a composer. Learn more about her life and career on TMDB.
From Wikipedia Fritzi Ridgeway (April 8, 1898 – March 29, 1961) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934. She married film composer Constantin Bakaleinikoff. In 1928 she built the Hotel del Tahquitz in Palm Springs, California.
See a 1924 glass negative of Fritzi Ridgeway, a popular singer and actress, making a snowman in front of the White House. The photo is from the Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress.
Fritzi Ridgeway (1898 – 1961) was an American actress who appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1934.
The story had already been filmed twice before as a silent, first with Taylor Holmes and Virginia Valli in 1918 and then with James Cruze directing Edward Everett Horton and Fritzi Ridgeway in 1923. For his first feature comedy, Laughton wanted to work with only the best, so he specifically requested Leo McCarey as his director.
