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Ione Reed
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born:
11 February 1903 Cade, Texas, United States of America |
died:
11 August 1985 Rockwall County, Texas, United States of America (age 82) |
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Blonde American actress and stuntwoman, an expert horsewoman who began as a leading lady in silent Westerns of the mid-late 1920s before transitioning to a steady career in stuntwork come the sound era. She doubled for Joan Bennett, Joan Blondell, Caryl Lincoln, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Claire Trevor, Miriam Hopkins, Claudette Colbert, Clara Bow, Ginger Rogers, Maureen O'Hara, Mae Clarke, Gracie Allen, Annabella, Grace Moore, Lorraine Krueger, Verna Hillie, Beth Marion, and others. She made the papers during 1937-38 when she accompanied George Palmer Putnam, the widower of Amelia Earhart, on an animal expedition to Central America; she and Putnam were also romantically involved for a short time. This publicity was followed by Camel cigarette ads in newspapers and magazines throughout 1938. She and Rose Gordon wrote the book "Stunt Girl" (1940), a novel based on Ione's experiences as a movie stuntwoman. In 1945 (Archer County News article) or 1948 (Clark County, NV, marriage records), she married Garrie Lathum Goodwin (1903-1966), the brother of Ione's longtime colleague, fellow silent Western leading lady-turned-sound era stuntwoman Aline Goodwin; the marriage lasted until Garrie's death in 1966. After her own passing in 1985, Ione Reed Goodwin was buried at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas. Many sources, citing a widespread 1945 article, report that she retired from film work in 1941 due to a makeup allergy and became a safety engineer for the Lewyt Corporation in New York. Those articles report this Ione claiming to be the stuntwoman, but I am confident this is actually a different Ione Reed who also worked in entertainment, but on the New York stage. Ione was still in California and in movies throughout the 1940s, still working in films at the time of the 1950 U.S. Census; presumably the NY Ione had seen the publicity "our" Ione got during the late 1930s and, sharing her name, decided the stunt stuff would make a good publicity angle regarding her profession. |
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Real name: Ione Novelle Reed Height: 5'3" |
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography. |
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