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Aletha <I>Prater</I> Schayer

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Aletha Prater Schayer

Birth
Kansas, USA
Death
8 Jan 1956 (aged 48)
Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Ocean View, 489, B
Memorial ID
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Actress

California Death Records
Name: Aletha Schayer
Birth: 10 Apr 1907 at Kansas
Death: 8 Jan 1956 at Los Angeles Co.
Mother's Maiden Name: Furnas
Father's Surname: Prather

Census
1930 Census, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; 333 S Peck Dr
-Richard Schayer, head, 47, 1st married age 30, b. District Of Columbia, owns home $22,000, writer motion pictures
-Aletha Schayer, wife, 22, b. Kansas
-Cecille Evans, sister-in-law, 27, single, b. Kansas, actress motion pictures

SISTER
Edith Lucille Prater Graham, also known as Cecille "Ceci" Evans, gained fame as the original star to have her legs insured by Lloyd's of London. This bathing beauty and Mack Sennett comedies silent film star was known as "the girl with the $100,000 legs. Her career spanned from 1915 to 1928, after which she married importer William Pierce Graham, brother of Elizabeth Arden of cosmetics fame.
Actress

California Death Records
Name: Aletha Schayer
Birth: 10 Apr 1907 at Kansas
Death: 8 Jan 1956 at Los Angeles Co.
Mother's Maiden Name: Furnas
Father's Surname: Prather

Census
1930 Census, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California; 333 S Peck Dr
-Richard Schayer, head, 47, 1st married age 30, b. District Of Columbia, owns home $22,000, writer motion pictures
-Aletha Schayer, wife, 22, b. Kansas
-Cecille Evans, sister-in-law, 27, single, b. Kansas, actress motion pictures

SISTER
Edith Lucille Prater Graham, also known as Cecille "Ceci" Evans, gained fame as the original star to have her legs insured by Lloyd's of London. This bathing beauty and Mack Sennett comedies silent film star was known as "the girl with the $100,000 legs. Her career spanned from 1915 to 1928, after which she married importer William Pierce Graham, brother of Elizabeth Arden of cosmetics fame.


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