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Merula Salaman was born on 16 October 1914 in Doverhay, Porlock, Somerset, UK. She was an actress, known for Twelfth Night (1939). She was married to Alec Guinness. She died on 18 October 2000 in Steep Marsh, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Actress
- October 16, 1914
- Merula Salaman
- October 18, 2000
Merula Silvia was the wife of actor Sir Alec Guinness and a former art student and actress. She met Guinness during a play in which she played a tiger and he played a wolf.
Merula Salaman was an actress who appeared in Twelfth Night (1939) and was married to Alec Guinness. She was born in 1914 in Somerset, UK and died in 2000 in Hampshire, UK.
- October 16, 1914
- October 18, 2000
Guinness married the artist, playwright and actress Merula Silvia Salaman (1914–2000) in 1938; in 1940, they had a son, Matthew Guinness, who later became an actor. From the 1950s the family lived at Kettlebrook Meadows, near Steep Marsh in Hampshire.
Learn how the actor Alec Guinness, who married Merula Salaman in 1938, landed the first troops in Sicily during World War II. The article also traces his early acting career and naval service.
This portrait. In 1938 Guinness married Merula Silvia Salaman whom he had met in 1935. She had studied at the Slade School of Art and had exhibited alongside Picasso and Braque, among others.
Aug 12, 2000 · He married his wife, the playwright Merula Salaman, in 1938 and spent much of the next five years in service with Britain's Royal Navy during the second World War. The couple had one...
