Coming of age in Paris in the 1920s, film and stage actress Lois Moran was a rumoured paramour of writer F Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for the character of Rosemary in his Tender Is the Night. As a young girl, Lois moved to Paris with her mother and thrived in the artistic and literary glow of the city. She danced with the National Paris Opera at age 14 and also was cast in two French films. Samuel Goldwyn, on a European tour in search of new talent, saw her work, was impressed, and cast her in what would become one of the best-known films of the era. With her performance as Laurel,...
Coming of age in Paris in the 1920s, film and stage actress Lois Moran was a rumoured paramour of writer F Scott Fitzgerald and the inspiration for th...