MARIUM BENDA HISTORY

MARIUM BENDA HISTORY


Birth: Oct. 14, 1904
New York, USA
Death: Nov. 30, 19511951
Hollywood
Los Angeles County
California, USA

Dancer. Marion Benda appeared in several Ziegfeld productions during the 1920's including the Ziegfeld Revue No Foolin' (1926), Rio Rita (1927), and Rosalie (1928). She was the last paramour of the silent film actor, Rudolph Valentino, and was in his company at a party given by Barclay Warburon, Jr. when the actor became ill on August 14, 1926. Cause of death: Overdose of barbituates 

After Valentino’s death she made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl.

Benda was married to Zeppo Marx of the Marx Brothers from 1927 to 1954.

She went on to  marry  a Hollywood golf writer that only lasted a day), then a wealthy baron, and finally a doctor. She was also rumoured to have a tendency to swallow overdoses of sleeping pills and died at the age of just 45  on her seventh attempt at suicide.  she declared: “He [Valentino] always said I was too beautiful to live.”

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 Children:
  Blake Arthur Watson (1944 - 1947)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Woodlawn Cemetery 
Santa Monica
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Grave 180, Block 4, Aisle B