Hugh Dillman

Hugh Dillman (born Hugh Dillman McGaughy, 8 February 1885 in Chesterville, Ohio – died 7 July 1956 in Columbus, Ohio) was a Broadway and silent film actor.[1] Dillman served as a Navy recruiter during World War I. His first marriage was to actress Marjorie Rambeau in 1919.[2] They divorced in 1923.

Dillman later sold real estate in Palm Beach, Florida and was one of the founding members of the Society of Arts. He was the sales agent for Mrs. Dodge purchase of the largest house in Palm Beach, Addison Mizner’s Playa Rienta.[1]

In 1926 he and Mrs. Anna Thompson Dodge, who was 14 years his senior and heiress of the Dodge Automobile fortune, were married.[1] They divorced in 1947. Hugh continued to run a real estate business and orchard nursery in Palm Beach, and the family lived at the former Bush mansion in Marble Cliff at 1550 Roxbury Road.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hugh Dillman and his dream – Sandy Loam Farm". Palm Beach Past.
  2. ↑ Nissen, Axel (2012). Mothers, Mammies and Old Maids: Twenty-Five Character Actresses of Golden Age Hollywood. McFarland. p. 170. ISBN 9780786490455.
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