Merna Kennedy
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Merna Kennedy was an American actress of the late silent era and the transitional period into talkies.
Kennedy in 1933
Kennedy in May 1933
Kennedy and Glenn Tryon in the film Skinner Steps Out (1929)
Busby Berkeley
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Berkeley William Enos, known professionally as Busby Berkeley, was an American film director and musical choreographer, best known for his collaboration with Warner Brothers in the early to mid-1930s.
Merna Kennedy
…bareback rider. Kennedy continued acting after The Circus, starring in early sound films, but retired in 1934 when she married choreographer/director Busby Berkeley on February 10, 1934 at Hollywood United Methodist Church. Their marriage broke up by 1936. Kennedy died at age 36 of a heart attack on December 20…
Berkeley c. 1935
The "By a Waterfall" production number from Footlight Parade (1933) made use of one of the largest soundstages ever built, specially constructed by Warner Bros. to film Berkeley's creations.
Carmen Miranda in The Gang's All Here (1943)
Berkeley being carried into his trial on a stretcher, September 1935