Ty Worked With... Actresses

This page features the actresses who were in movies with Ty in his pre-stardom years. During this very early phase of his film career, before Lloyds of London, he was either uncredited or billed as Tyrone Power, Jr. In 1934's Flirtation Walk, he was an uncredited cadet and had no lines. This was when he left Hollywood, only to return two years later, after being spotted by a 20th Century-Fox scout on stage in New York. In 1936, he was credited as Tyrone Power, Jr. in two films. In Girls' Dormitory, he had a bit part as Count Vallais, and, in Ladies in Love, he had a small role as Count Karl Lanyi, the love interest of the Loretta Young character (pictured above in that role).

Constance Bennett

Born
October 22, 1904, New York, New York
Died
July 24, 1965, Fort Dix, New Jersey (cerebral hemorrhage)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Ladies in Love (1936) (Yoli Haydn)

Other movies
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Topper (1937)
TwoFaced Woman (1941)

Film career spanned
1922-1951 (with one final performance, in Madame X which was released in 1966, after her death)

A few other stars she worked with
Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Fredric March, Clark Gable

Tidbit
She came from an acting family. Her parents, Richard Bennett and Adrienne Morrison, were actors, as were her two sisters, Joan Bennett and Barbara Bennett.

Janet Gaynor

Born
October 6, 1906, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died
September 14, 1984, Palm Springs, California (pneumonia)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Ladies in Love (1936) (Martha Kerenye)

Other movies
Seventh Heaven (1927)
State Fair (1933)
A Star Is Born (1937)

Film career spanned
1924-1938 (with a return in 1957 for her last movie, Bernardine)

Academy Award Nominations
1938 Best Actress in a Leading Role for A Star Is Born

Academy Awards Won
1929 Best Actress m for Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

A few other stars she worked with
Charles Farrell, Will Rogers, Robert Taylor, Warner Baxter

Tidbit
Janet Gaynor was married three times: to Jesse Lydell Peck, from 1929 - 1933 (divorced). She then married Gilbert Adrian, a famous Hollywood costume designer. They were married from 1939, until his death in 1959. In 1964 she married Paul Gregory, and they were married until her death in 1984. Paul Gregory was a Broadway producer who produced, among other shows, John Brown's Body, which starred Tyrone Power. Just before his marriage to Annabella, Tyrone and Janet Gaynor had a well-publicized romance.

Ruby Keeler

Born
August 25, 1909, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died
February 28, 1993, Rancho Mirage, California(cancer)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Flirtation Walk (1934) (Kathleen 'Kit' Fitts)

Other movies
42nd Street (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Footlight Parade (1933)

Film career spanned
1933-1941 (with a return in 1989 for her last movie, Beverly Hills Brats)

A few other stars she worked with
James Cagney, Al Jolson, Dick Powell

Tidbit
Ruby Keeler's began her career as a dancer. In 1928, she married entertainer Al Jolson. She moved with him to Hollywood and began her film career. Her film career consisted mostly of less than a dozen light musicals in the 1930's, often with Dick Powell. She returned to Broadway in 1970 in a revival of No, No Nanette.

Ruth Chatterton

Born
December 24, 1893, New York, New York
Died
November 24, 1961, Norwalk, Connecticut (brain hemorrhage)

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Girls' Dormitory (1936) (Professor Anna Mathe)

Other movies
Dodsworth (1936)
Madame X (1929)
The Magnificent Lie (1931)

Academy Award Nominations
1930 Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sarah and Son
1930 Best Actress in a Leading Role for Madame X

Film career spanned
1928-1938

A few other stars she worked with
Otto Kruger, Walter Huston, Adolphe Menjou, Fredric March

Tidbit
She starred opposite her husband, George Brent (to whom she was married from 1932-1934) in four films: In 1932: The Crash; The Rich Are Always with Us. In 1933: Female; Lilly Turner

Simon Simone

Born
April 23, 1910, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Filmography

Movie with Ty
Girls' Dormitory (1936) (Marie Claudel)
Ladies in Love (1936) (Marie Armand )

Other movies
Under Two Flags (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Cat People (1942)

Film career spanned
1931-1956 (returned to screen in 1973 for La Femme en bleu)

A few other stars she worked with
Ronald Colman, James Stewart, Dennis O'Keefe, Herbert Marshall

Tidbit
Simone Simon was a top star of French films when Darryl F. Zanuck signed her up to a contract at 20th Century-Fox in 1936. She made a few Hollywood films, but, after just a couple years, she returnd to France, after becoming unhappy with her American film career. Due to events in Europe during World War II, she took refuge in America, where she made a few films, among them the horror flick, Cat People. After the war, she returned to her career in France.