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Jigee Viertel (born Virginia Lee Ray; September 30, 1915 – January 31, 1960) was an actress in early Hollywood pictures and later the wife of screenwriters Budd Schulberg and Peter Viertel. She was active in early Hollywood socialist organizing and later in life was linked to the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ernest Hemingway.
Four recently discovered love letters reveal the players in this ménage à quatre: Ernest Hemingway, fresh from completing Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), his first novel in 10 years; his wife, Mary; Jigee Viertel (née Virginia Ray of Pittsburgh); and Viertel’s husband, Peter, also a writer, who later penned a memoir of ...
The Life Summary of Jigee. When Jigee Viertel was born on 3 September 1915, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Robert M Ray Jr, was 42 and her mother, Mazie Lauth, was 23. She married Budd Wilson Schulberg on 31 December 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
- Female
- Peter Viertel, Budd Wilson Schulberg
Reputedly dependent on alcohol and sleeping medication, Viertel woke one night in her Los Angeles home and while in the bathroom lit a cigarette that she then dropped inadvertently into the pocket of her dressing gown, causing her immolation. She died from the burns she suffered a month later. Nickname: Jigee.
- Actress
- September 3, 1915
- Virginia Ray
- January 31, 1960
21 de dez. de 2007 · Peter Viertel, screen-writer and novelist: born Dresden, Germany 16 November 1920; married first Jigee Ray (died 1960; one daughter; marriage dissolved), secondly 1960 Deborah Kerr (died 2007);...
HEMINGWAY WROTE THESE four newly discovered love letters to Jigee Viertel, wife of the novelist and screenwriter Peter Viertel, in December 1949 and January 1950. His infatuation had begun weeks earlier, when Jigee, Hemingway, and his fourth wife, Mary, crossed the Atlantic on the Ile de France.
Personal life. In 1913, Schulberg was married to then New York World reporter, B.P. Schulberg; they had a son Budd Schulberg before divorcing in 1933. [1] She died in New York City on July 15, 1977. [1] Her son was married and divorced from actresses Virginia Lee Ray (known as Jigee Viertel) and Geraldine Brooks .
