Lillian Roth Death
Lillian passed away on May 12, 1980 at the age of 69 in New York, New York. Lillian's cause of death was stroke.
When did Lillian Roth die?
May 12, 1980How did Lillian Roth die? What was the cause of death?
StrokeHow old was Lillian Roth when died?
69Where did Lillian Roth die? What was the location of death?
New York, New York
Lillian Roth Birthday and Date of Death
Lillian Roth was born on December 13, 1910 and died on May 12, 1980. Lillian was 69 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: December 13, 1910
Date of Death: May 12, 1980
Age at Death: 69
Lillian Roth - Biography
Lillian Roth (December 13, 1910 – May 12, 1980) was an American singer and actress.
Soon the young actress signed a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures. Among the films she made with Paramount were The Love Parade (1929) with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, The Vagabond King (1930), Paramount on Parade (1930), Honey (1930; in which she introduced "Sing, You Sinners"), Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan (1930) with Reginald Denny and Kay Johnson, Sea Legs with Jack Oakie, and the Marx Brothers' second film, Animal Crackers (1930). She took over Ethel Merman's stage role in the film version of Take a Chance, singing "Eadie Was a Lady". After leaving Paramount, she had a supporting role in the women's prison film Ladies They Talk About (Warner Bros., 1933) with Barbara Stanwyck.
Roth was married six times: to Mark Harris, to aviator William C. Scott ("Willie Richards"), Judge Benjamin Shalleck, Eugene J. Weiner, Edward Goldman ("Vic"), and Thomas Burt McGuire. Prior to her marriages, she was engaged to David Lyons, who died of tuberculosis. She divorced her second husband in 1932 after 13 months of marriage.
In 1955, she met her last husband, Thomas Burt McGuire, scion of Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Company at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (Roth joined Alcoholics Anonymous in 1946). The two wed and McGuire managed Roth until September 1963, when she received a note from him stating that their marriage was finished.
Roth, at age 69, died from a stroke in New York City in 1980. The inscription on her marker in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Westchester County, New York reads: "As bad as it was it was good."
