Jean Hathaway

Jean Hathaway
Born
Lillie Bishop

June 15, 1876
Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Hungary)
DiedAugust 23, 1938 (aged 62)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Burial placeForest Lawn Memorial Park
Other namesMarquise Lillie de Fiennes,
Jane Hathaway
Occupation(s)Belgian marquess, singer, actress, screenplay writer
Years active1902–1925
SpouseRhody Hathaway (m. 1894–1938; death)
Children4, including Henry Hathaway

Jean Hathaway (née Lillie Bishop;[1] 1876–1938) was a Hungarian-born Belgian and American stage and silent film actress, singer, and claimed to be a Belgian Marquise though marriage.[2][3][4] Her career began on the vaudeville circuit; and by 1908 she was an early star of Allan Dwan's American Film Manufacturing Company.[2] After her marriage in 1894, she also went by the names Marquise Lillie de Fiennes and Jane Hathaway.

  1. ^ Pomainville, Harold N. (2016-06-10). Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood Director. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 6, 9, 14. ISBN 978-1-4422-6978-1.
  2. ^ a b "Obituary for Jean Hathaway". The Los Angeles Times. 1938-08-25. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-02-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Mrs. Jean Hathaway; Film Star In Early Days Of Hollywood Dies At Age Of 62". The New York Times. August 25, 1938. p. 19. ISSN 0362-4331.
  4. ^ "Henry Hathaway, un marquis devenu roi du western à Hollywood" [Henry Hathaway, a marquis who became king of the western in Hollywood]. L'Echo (in French). August 7, 2013.