Carmel Myers

Carmel Myers was a Jewish American silent film actress born to a Russian-Jewish rabbi and an Austrian-Jew in San Francisco. Myers attended Los Angeles High School but left after D. W. Griffith gave her bit part in the film Intolerance (1916), for which her father was an unpaid consultant. She continued her education at a school for young actors. Myers left for New York City, where she acted mainly in theater for the next two years. She was signed by Universal and starred in the romantic comedy All Night, opposite Rudolph Valentino, who was then a little-known actor. She also worked with him in A Society Sensation. By 1924, she was working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, making such films as Broadway After Dark. In 1951, Myers had a celebrity interview TV program, The Carmel Myers Show, on ABC. In 1952, she formed Carmel Myers Productions, a firm for producing radio and TV programs. Later, she focused on a career in real estate and her perfume distribution company.