Leonore Lemmon

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Leonore Lemmon
Born(1923-05-11)May 11, 1923
Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States
Died December 30, 1989(1989-12-30) (aged 66)
Spouse(s) Jacob L. "Jakie" Webb
(1941-divorced)
Hamish Menzies
(1954-divorced)

Leonore Lemmon (May 11, 1923 – December 30, 1989) [1] [2] was an American socialite who was the fiancée of actor George Reeves at the time of his death.

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George Reeves American actor

George Reeves was an American actor. He is best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program Adventures of Superman.

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Life

Lemmon was the daughter of Arthur Lemmon, a successful Broadway ticket broker. In 1941, she married Jacob L. "Jakie" Webb who was a great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt. She left him after eight days but remained married long enough for the colorful Webb to marry someone else several years later and face bigamy charges. She later married and divorced musician Hamish Menzies.

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Bigamy illegal second or further marriage

In cultures that practice marital monogamy, bigamy is the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another. Bigamy is a crime in most Western countries, and when it occurs in this context often neither the first nor second spouse is aware of the other. In countries that have bigamy laws, consent from a prior spouse makes no difference to the legality of the second marriage, which is usually considered void.

In the late 1950s, Lemmon was the girlfriend of Adventures of Superman star George Reeves. Reeves was apparently scheduled to marry Lemmon on June 19, 1959 and then spend their honeymoon in Tijuana. Reeves died of a gunshot wound to the head three days before.

<i>Adventures of Superman</i> (TV series) US 1950s television series

Adventures of Superman is an American television series based on comic book characters and concepts that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created in 1938. The show was the first television series to feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO-Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. Cereal manufacturer Kellogg's sponsored the show. The show, which was produced for first-run television syndication rather than a network, has disputed first and last air dates, but they are generally accepted as September 19, 1952, and April 28, 1958. The show's first two seasons were filmed in black and white; seasons three through six were filmed in color but originally telecast in black and white. Adventures of Superman was not shown in color until 1965, when the series was syndicated to local stations.

Lemmon returned to New York where she lived out the remainder of her life.

She was portrayed by Robin Tunney in the 2006 movie Hollywoodland .

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<i>Hollywoodland</i> 2006 film by Allen Coulter

Hollywoodland is a 2006 American period mystery film directed by Allen Coulter and written by Paul Bernbaum. The story presents a fictionalized account of the circumstances surrounding the death of actor George Reeves, the star of the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman. Adrien Brody stars as a fictional character, Louis Simo, a private detective investigating Toni Mannix, who was involved in a long romantic relationship with Reeves and was the wife of MGM studio executive Eddie Mannix. Reeves had ended the affair and had become engaged to a younger woman, aspiring actress Leonore Lemmon.

Notes

  1. ↑ Her body was found in her New York apartment January 4, 1990, and time of death was calculated as most likely five days earlier. Her death certificate reads December 30, 1989
  2. ↑ New York Borough of Manhattan Death Records, 1989

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