Rockhaven Sanitarium by Elisa Jordan

Author:Elisa Jordan [Jordan, Elisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Mental Health, Nursing, Psychiatric & Mental Health, Biography & Autobiography, Women, History, United States, State & Local, West (AK; CA; CO; HI; ID; MT; NV; UT; WY)
ISBN: 9781439665589
Google: NIKADwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2018-10-22T16:03:08+00:00

THE STAR MAKER: JOSEPHINE DILLON

Born on January 26, 1884, in Denver, Josephine Dillon’s background had very little in common with her future student and husband’s humble roots. Her father, Henry Clay Dillon, was a Denver-area judge who later went on to work as a district attorney in Los Angeles. Her mother was a prominent socialite, and her older sister—Josephine was one of six children—was an accomplished opera singer. Before launching into a career in theater and as an acting coach, Josephine herself was educated in Los Angeles and Europe and at Stanford University. She studied acting in Italy and worked on Broadway before turning her career from acting to teaching. She set up her own school in Portland, which is where she met none other than William Clark Gable.

There are various stories about how the two met, but Clark Gable himself said in a 1938 newspaper article that in Portland he worked for the phone company, a job that would lead him directly to his first wife. Josephine’s business required service from the telephone company, and Billy Gable happened to be the employee sent out on the job. And he knew exactly who the boss was when he got there. He recalled:

Early in the spring of 1924 we picked up a hurry call from the Little Theater. The stage director, Miss Josephine Dillon, reported a wire out of order and I went over to fix it. I had read about her in the newspapers. She had been [a] leading woman for Edward Everett Horton and she had played Broadway.

Miss Dillon listened very patiently to my story, while I worked on that disconnected wire. She was one of the kindest persons I had ever met and I must have put up considerable argument as to why I belonged in her stock company. She heard me out and even encouraged me to make another stab at theater.

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