| Salma El-Sharkawy |
An American actress, born on April 28, 1911, in Spokane, Washington, USA, as Gertrude Dolores Messinger. She has appeared in silent films since she was a child and worked at Universal, where her father had a job as a carpenter. She starred in the "Fox Kiddies" series of short comedies starting in 1917. She also appeared during the 1920s in several feature films directed by Cecil B. DeMille. In the 1930s, she participated in sound films and was successful in westerns. Despite her career slowing down in the forties, she continued in small roles until she retired in 1952. She is known for A Bit o' Heaven (1917), Rip Van Winkle (1921), and Penrod and Sam (1923). She married three times. She died at the age of 84 from congestive heart failure on November 8, 1995, in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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