Carmelita Geraghty [SEP] cause of death
Dr. Kildare films. Geraghty's father had written scenarios for Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and others.
Death.
Carmelita Geraghty died of a heart attack in 1966 at the Lombardy Hotel in Manhattan, aged 65. She was returning to her home in Los Angeles, California, after a month's exhibition of her work at the Weil Galleries.
She is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.
Partial filmography.
- "Bag and Baggage" (1923)
- "Jealous Husbands"
a costume of black and white checkered silk, with hat and slippers that matched. The Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers (WAMPAS) selected Hiatt among its thirteen "baby star" actresses for 1924. Blanche Mahaffey, Carmelita Geraghty, and Clara Bow were also chosen. Hiatt was blonde but one reporter covering the WAMPAS banquet in San Francisco, in December 1923, wrote that she was brunette.
Death.
Ruth Hiatt died in Montrose, California in 1994 of congestive heart failure.
Private life.
Hiatt