Jacqueline Gadsden
American actress (1900-1986)
Jacqueline Gadsden (August 3, 1900 – August 10, 1986) was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of Southern California, she was born in Lompoc to Gerald F. and Jessie H. (Salter) Gadsden and is known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927 Clara Bow vehicle It. As a child, she acted in films for Triangle Film Corporation.
She married William Harry Dale about 1924. She portrayed Lon Chaney's character's wife in Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar in 1928. In most films she was billed as Jacqueline Gadsden but made two films under the name Jane Daly in 1929, her final year in film. She died in the San Diego County city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday.
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