Alice Day

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Jacqueline Alice Irene Newlin (November 7, 1906 – May 25, 1995),<ref name="msff">Template:Cite book</ref> known professionally as Alice Day, was an American film actress who began her career as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties.

Early years

Day was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank and Irene Newlin,<ref name="msff" /> and attended high school in Venice, California, where she was discovered.<ref name="dfp" /> She was the elder sister of actress Marceline Day.<ref name=msff/>

Career

Template:More citations needed section Day appeared in 70 movies between 1923 and 1932. In 1929, she starred with Edward Buzzell in a film version of the George M. Cohan stage musical Little Johnny Jones, the title better known in revised excerpts staged in the Cohan biopic Yankee Doodle Dandy. There are no known copies of the Buzzell-Day films.Template:Citation needed

Day also co-starred with Ted Lewis in the musical Is Everybody Happy? (1929)<ref name="dfp">Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> which is also considered a lost film.Template:Citation needed Lewis selected her out of approximately 200 candidates for the role.<ref name=dfp/> Day appeared in the film Two-Fisted Law (1932) with Tim McCoy and John Wayne.

Personal life and death

On July 6, 1930, Day married Jack B. Cohn, a jeweler and broker. She retired from acting soon after the marriage, and the couple had two sons. She and Cohn were divorced on July 28, 1939.<ref name="msff" /> She died on May 25, 1995, in Orange, California, at age 88.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>