Jean Acker (October 23, 1893–August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s, though she was perhaps most notorious as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. Image File history File links Jean Acker This is a copyrighted promotional photo with a known source. ... October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. ... 1893 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926) was an Italian actor. ...

She was born Harriet Acker in Trenton, New Jersey, to a part-Cherokee father and Irish mother. She attended school in New Jersey and performed in vaudeville until she moved to California in 1919. She became lovers with Alla Nazimova, a film actress whose clout and contacts enabled Acker to negotiate a two-hundred-dollar-a-week contract with a movie studio. Acker then also became involved with Grace Darmond, who was younger and a comparative novice in film. Location in New Jersey Founded  -Incorporated c. ... Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation) The Cherokee are a people native to North America who at time of European contact in the 16th century inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (D)Acting Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ... Vaudeville was a style of multi-act theater which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Alla Nazimova, (May 22, 1879 - July 13, 1945), was a Ukrainian born stage and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. ...

After meeting and befriending the then-struggling actor Rudolph Valentino at a party, they entered a two-month courtship and married on November 6, 1919. Acker quickly had regrets and locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night. Acker ran to Darmond's apartment in tears and the marriage was reportedly never consummated. After filing for divorce, Valentino did not wait the requisite period for it to be finalized before marrying his second wife, Natacha Rambova, in Mexico, and he was charged with bigamy when the couple returned to the United States. Acker then sued Valentino for the legal right to call herself "Mrs. Rudolph Valentino," and Valentino remained angry at her for several years. They did mend their friendship before his death in 1926, and Acker wrote a popular song about him soon after he died called We Will Meet at the End of the Trail. November 6 is the 310th day of the year (311th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 55 days remaining. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Natacha Rambova (January 19, 1897 – May 6, 1966) was a costume and set designer, art director, playwright, silent-film actress, Egyptologist, collector of antiquities, and second wife of the silent film star Rudolph Valentino. ... Polygamy, literally many marriages in ancient Greek, is a marital practice in which a person has more than one spouse simultaneously (as opposed to monogamy where each person has a maximum of one spouse at any one time). ...

Jean Acker played bit parts in films until the early 1950s and lived with her partner Chloe Carter in Beverly Hills in a building they co-owned. She died in 1978 at the age of eighty-five and is buried next to Carter in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... Holy Cross Cemetery is located at 5835 W. Slauson Avenue in Culver City, California. ... Culver City sign, at the northeast corner of the Sepulveda Boulevard and Centinela Avenue intersection, near the 405 and the 90 freeway interchange. ...

Selected Filmography

• It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
• Spellbound (1945) (uncredited)
• San Francisco (1936)
• Brewster's Millions (1921)

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External Links

• Jean Acker at the Internet Movie Database