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Ouida Bergère (born Eunie Branch; December 14, 1886 – November 29, 1974) was an American screenwriter and actress.
Ouida Bergère. Actress: Mates and Mis-Mates. Diminutive red-headed actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her marriage to star actor Basil Rathbone was one of the most enduring in show business, lasting from 1926 until his death in 1967.
Ouida Bergère. Actress: Mates and Mis-Mates. Diminutive red-headed actress, playwright and screenwriter. Her marriage to star actor Basil Rathbone was one of the most enduring in show business, lasting from 1926 until his death in 1967.
In November of 1923, Basil Rathbone met Ouida Bergere, a redhead with brown eyes. They began to date, and in 1926 they married. Basil declared, “Without her I would be nothing; with her I can be everything. Without her I would be miserable. With her I am the happiest man in the world. . . .
Ouida Bergère was perhaps best known in the film industry as Mrs. Basil Rathbone and party hostess extraordinaire. However, before her marriage, to Rathbone, Bergère was a prominent and top paid scenario writer.
Short, red-haired, and somewhere on the scale between vivacious and batshit crazy, Ouida Bergère was a failed actress and silent-movie screenwriter of questionable talent but enormous energy, much of it devoted to serial self-reinvention.
Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario department. Now, with her tall,...
