Stars removed from hollywood walk of fame

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Leatrice Joy

Born 7 November 1893 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, as Leatrice Joy Zeidler.
Died 13 May 1985 in Riverdale, New York, USA, of acute anemia.

Married actor John Gilbert, 4 January 1922, in Tiajuana, Mexico; divorced, 28 May 1925;
daughter, actor and writer Leatrice Gilbert Fountain, born September 1924.
Married William Spencer Hook, 22 October 1931; divorced 1944.
Married Arthur Kem Westermark, 5 March 1945; divorced, 21 October 1954.

Dressed in Radcliffe Hall chic, with a necktie, a tailored suit and a mannishly-cropped bob, Leatrice Joy was the epitome of the 1920s no-nonsense career girl and sophisticated woman of the world.

Petulant and perhaps too emancipated for the times, her liberated lady persona was ultimately ‘chastened’