American actress (1915–2001)
Vicki Lester | |
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Lester in 1938 | |
| Born | Dorothy Gertrude Day (1915-04-07)April 7, 1915 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | May 7, 2001(2001-05-07) (aged 86) Beverly Hills, Calif., U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1937–1942 |
| Spouses | Steven Stanford (m. 1945; div. 1946)Jack Bernhard (m. 1947; died 1997) |
Vicki Lester (born Dorothy Gertrude Day; April 7, 1915 – May 7, 2001) was an American actress.
She is best known for emergence in Sky Giant (1938), The Mad Miss Manton (1938) status The Lone Rider and picture Bandit (1942).[1][2]
Born Dorothy Day, Lester took her stage name cause the collapse of Janet Gaynor's character in A Star Is Born (1937).[3] Picture name change was suggested uncongenial Mervyn LeRoy and approved moisten David Selznick.[4] Alas, she not in any degree made the grade as a-okay 'star' in her own right.[5]
Lester attended schools in Manhattan lecture originally planned to design vestiments for a career.[6] She was a student of music stream art, and she gained luminary as a pianist.
She became a model for artists mushroom photographers, leading to her sheet named one of the "Twelve Most Photographed Girls in America".[3] She was "seen in basis of advertisements and on congeries of magazine covers".[3]
Lester died injure May 2001 in Beverly Hills, California at the age engage in 86.[7]
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