Dagmar Dahlgren

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Dagmar Dahlgren was a singer and motion picture actress of the silent film era from Los Angeles, California.

Dahlgren was a dance pupil of Isadora Duncan. She had a brief career in motion pictures from 1920-1922. Among the films in which she appeared are Mamma's Boy (1920), Prince Pistachio (1921), Stop Kidding (1921), and The Man Haters (1922).

She was the eighth wife of Norman Selby, known in boxing as Kid McCoy. Dahlgren and McCoy lived together for three days. McCoy was charged with first degree murder for the killing of Mrs. Teresa Mora, a wealthy woman who ran an antique store. She was found dead with a picture of McCoy in her hand. This was in 1920. McCoy received a package of jewelry from Mora prior to her death. Her husband claimed that McCoy had stripped from Mora more than $12,000 in jewels.

McCoy contended Mora committed suicide. Dahlgren disputed one of McCoy's alibis during his trial for murder in Los Angeles. Specifically she denied to her attorney that she had seen him in the two years prior to Mora's death. A jury sentenced him to San Quentin State Prison on a compromise verdict of manslaughter.

Dahlgren was married at least three more times. In chronological order she wed actor Victor Rodman, her vaudeville partner Alek Kipper, and Berkeley, California dance teacher Herbert S. Calvert. She married Calvert in May 1935 after accusing him of trying to smother her with a pillow in April of the same year.

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Coshocton, Ohio Tribune, Alienists Say McCoy Is Sane, August 20, 1924, Page 4.
Dunkirk, New York Evening Observer, McCoy Had A Way With Women, December 4, 1924, Page 13.
Helena Independent, Fight Knockouts Did Not Defeat McCoy-Tackles Old Foe Again, Wednesday, August 4, 1937, Page 10.
Lincoln State Journal, Spoils Kid McCoy's Alibi, August 30, 1924, Page 2.
Los Angeles Times, Woman Asserts Betrothed Tried To Smother Her, April 24, 1935, Page A1.
Oakland Tribune, Eighth Wife of Kid McCoy Remarries, May 20, 1935, Page 3.