Jacqueline Gadsden (August 3, 1900 – August 10, 1986) was an American film actress during the silent era. A native of

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, she was born in

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to Gerald F. and Jessie H. (Salter) Gadsden and is known to modern audiences as the wealthy, haughty other woman in the 1927

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vehicle '' It''. As a child, she acted in films for

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. She married William Harry Dale about 1924. She portrayed

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's character's wife in

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'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

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city of San Marcos a week after her 86th birthday.

Partial filmography

*'' Cordelia the Magnificent'' (1923) *'' Skid Proof'' (1923) *'' Big Dan'' (1923) *'' The Man Who Won'' (1923) *'' A Chapter in Her Life'' (1923) *'' The Goldfish'' (1924) *'' His Hour'' (1924) - Tatiana Shebanoff *'' The Wife of the Centaur'' (1924) *'' The Flaming Forties'' (1924) *'' Man and Maid'' (1924) *'' Ridin' the Wind'' (1925) *''

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'' (1925) *'' The Show'' (1927) *'' It'' (1927) *'' The Thirteenth Hour'' (1927) *''

Beyond London Lights ''Beyond London Lights'' is a lost 1928 American silent drama film directed by Tom Terriss and starring Adrienne Dore, Lee Shumway, and Bill Elliott. It is based on John Joy Bell's 1917 novel '' Kitty Carstairs'', and is sometimes referred to b ...

'' (1928) * '' The City of Purple Dreams'' (1928) *''

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'' (1928) *'' West of Zanzibar'' (1928) * ''

A Bit of Heaven ''A Bit of Heaven'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Cliff Wheeler and starring Bryant Washburn, Lila Lee, and Otto Lederer.Munden p.62 Plot A young man from a wealthy background marries a dancer in a Broadway revue, to the dis ...

'' (1928) *''

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'' (1928) *'' The Bellamy Trial'' (1929) *'' The Quitter'' (1929) *''

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'' (1929)''St. Petersburg Times'' January 13. 1929 p 7. Web. April 13. 2014. Gadsden is listed under her original name in this review, but is credited as Jane Daly in the film.

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* 1900 births 1986 deaths American film actresses People from Lompoc, California 20th-century American actresses Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Actresses from California {{US-film-actor-1900s-stub