Born in Santa Barbara, California, United States
Daughter of Thomas F Cornell
and Mabel C (Eaton) Long
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Edward (Ohrenstein) Lachmann
— married
16 May 1931 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
[children unknown]
Died
at age 55
in Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 May 2020
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Biography
Daughter of Thomas F Cornell & Mabel Eaton. They worked in the wardrobe department of The American Film Company, which was based in Santa Barbara. Melva wanted to become an actress and started working for the company as an extra in 1916. She did some stage acting on Broadway. She acted in The Devil's Circus and Movietone Follies of 1929 (a lost film).
Melva attended Hollywood High School and was a classmate of Myrna Loy (whom she remained friends) and danced with her in the Fanchon and Marco Revue.
She had one child, a boy named Cornell, but sadly he died from leukemia at age 6. After both her husband Marc and her son died, Melva worked for the publicity department at 20th Century Fox.
Sources
- 1910, 1940 US census
- Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1669-2013
- California, Death Index, 1940-1997
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85446204/melva-frances-lachmann
- https://www.geni.com/people/Melva-Cornell/6000000023882644404
- https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0180274/bio
- http://fastfilm1.blogspot.com/2014/10/haunting-face-from-1929.html
- https://dantebea.com/category/actrices/melva-cornell/
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Melva_Cornell
- https://www.playbill.com/person/melva-cornell-vault-0000092732
- https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2168901-melva-cornell?language=en-US
- https://vampsandflappers.tumblr.com/post/177250252717/silent-film-actress-melva-frances-cornell
- "Silent Stars Speak: Interviews with Twelve Cinema Pioneers" By Tony Villecco, https://books.google.com/books?id=vSh_uXgkXxgC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=melva+cornell,+myrna+loy&source=bl&ots=zj5uQGE2Vu&sig=ACfU3U3w3n9HwsIT31WNI4P9-vCsfWQgvg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEi_O7qZPpAhVDrZ4KHSPwADA4ChDoATACegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=melva%20cornell%2C%20myrna%20loy&f=false
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GK7Z-BH4
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