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RYMAN Lucille

Garnett Lucille Ryman Carroll.

Date of birth : January 10, 1906, Macon County, Illinois.

Date of death : October 23, 2002, Glendale, California.

Profession

Actress for the Paramount studios under the name of Jane Starr ().

Casting director at the MGM 

Address 16610 Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills, California.

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In 1936 she married the movie producer Louis Owen MacLoon (May 30, 1893, Illinois-August 13, 1979, Oregon). They divorced a few years later.

On December 24, 1945 she married in Las Vegas  Lieutenant Commander Charles Bellamy Carpenter Jr

().

She headed MGM's talent department from 1941 to 1954. this is where she met her last husband, John Carroll,

she married in 1947 ().

Link with Marilyn

She had carried out the role of a mentor to Lana Turner and Janet Leigh.

She met Marilyn on August 3, 1947 during the "Frank Borzage Motion Picture Golf Tournament", where Marilyn was the score-keeper of John Carroll's group. 

In September 1947 she introduced Marilyn to the owners of the Bliss-Hayden Miniature Theater, who entrusted her with a part in "Glamour Preferred"; she embodied a Hollywood starlet whose project to seduce a charming masculine leading role was foiled by his intelligent and honnest wife.

With her husband, they paid Marilyn's lessons at the Actors Lab.

She contributed to convince John Huston to engage Marilyn for the part of Angela Phinlay in "The Asphalt 
Jungle" (1950).

Beginning of 1954 they were in contact again when Marilyn called Lucille and asked her to completely collaborate with Ben Hecht, who was written an autobiography for her. 

Letter to Marilyn dated May 16, 1960 .

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