Jacqueline Dyris

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Jacqueline Dyris was a petite stage actress and silent film star, a native of Brussels, Belgium. In film stills Jacqueline resembles actress Louise Brooks, especially her face and haircut. Her father was of English and Dutch descent and her mother was Spanish and French. Both parents were talented. Her dad was a noted portrait painter and her mom an opera singer. Jacqueline was educated in Europe and later Montreal, Canada, Chicago, Illinois, and New York, New York.

Due to her small size Miss Dyris was discouraged about studying for a career in opera. Instead she pursued a theatrical career. She was initially associated with Jack Norworth of Norworth and Bayes in Odds and Ends. Soon she participated in several vaudeville sketches. She relocated from New York to California due to health reasons in the early 1920s. In 1925 the actress appeared in White Collars. The play continued more than a year at the Egan Theater in Los Angeles, California. Its comedic theme involved sharply-pointed satire. The petite Belgian ingenue played the flapper daughter. The setting was a flat in Harlem.

Jacqueline's most noted movies are The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1922) and The Godless Girl (1929). The latter was directed by Cecil B. Demille and starred Marie Prevost, Noah Beery, George Duryea, and Lina Basquette. She acted with Ina Claire in The Awful Truth (1929). This was a sophisticated comedy-drama which was the first talking motion picture for Claire. She had recently married actor John Gilbert.

Dyris once proposed a certain cure for love, Take fifteen ounces of dislike, one pound of resolution, two ounces of experience, a large sprig of time and the cooling water of consideration. Set them over the gentle fire of love, sweeten with the sugar of forgetfulness, skim with the spoon of melancholy, then put the decoction into the bottom of your heart, cork with the cork of a clear conscience and let it remain, and you will quickly find ease and be restored to your senses again.

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• Los Angeles Times, Feminine Wiles, January 4, 1925, Page 29.
• Los Angeles Times, She Has Love Cure, January 4, 1925, Page 37.
• Los Angeles Times, An Addled Ancestry, April 5, 1925, Page 31.
• Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden, Utah, Comedy Drama At Egyptian, October 7, 1929, Page 9.