Louise Currie obit

Louise Currie Good

She was not on the list. She was the last actor/actress alive from Citizen Kane and also had a role in a great movie called You'll find Out with Kay Kyser.

Louise C. Good was born in Oklahoma City on April 7, 1913. She married Robert Hefner, Jr., 1934. Louise went to California, with her baby, Robert Hefner III. She worked in more than 50 films and Serials from 1939-1949. She married John M. Haffen, 1940, giving birth to her daughter Sharon Haffen Becket. Later she married John V. Good, 1948, becoming an Interior Decorator and importing Italian Antiques. We will always remember her keen sense of style, elegance, spirit and determination. Louise will always be an inspiration to her family and friends. Louise is survived by her son Robert Hefner III, her daughter Sharon Becket, her step-son Allen Good, her step-daughter Chris Abel and many grand and great-grandchildren.

Currie was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the daughter of Charles W. Gunter, a banker, and his wife, Louise (née Currie), whose maiden name she would take for her professional acting surname. She was prominent in society. While attending the Martha Washington Seminary, a finishing school for young women in Washington, D.C., she was chosen one of the ten most beautiful society girls in the nation's capital. She attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she became interested in acting. She moved to Hollywood, California and attended Max Reinhardt's drama school, where she was spotted by talent scouts while taking part in the school's stage workshop. She declined to attempt screen tests until after graduation.

 

With the help of her agent, Sue Carol, wife to actor Alan Ladd, she began working with Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Most of her movies were B-movies and serials, in which she often portrayed the heroine. Her film career began in 1940, when she appeared first in Billy the Kid Outlawed and then as a society debutante, in the Kay Kyser musical You'll Find Out. In 1941 she starred in the serial Adventures of Captain Marvel opposite Tom Tyler.

 

Currie had an uncredited role in Citizen Kane (1941), as a reporter at Xanadu. She was the last surviving Kane cast member..

 

From 1940–49 she had roles in 39 films, many of which were starring, including The Masked Marvel (1943). She made a few television appearances in the 1950s, retiring permanently from acting in 1956.

 

Currie was first married to Robert A. Hefner Jr., but that marriage ended in divorce January 29, 1940. She married actor John Whitney (1918-1985) at the peak of her career, but the marriage ended in divorce. On May 4, 1948, she married character actor John Good. He retired from acting, and the two opened a successful antique import-export business in Beverly Hills, remaining together until his death in December 1996.

 

In 1944, Currie had starred opposite Hollywood legend Bela Lugosi in The Ape Man (1943) and Voodoo Man (1944). Along with actress Lucille Lund and others, she took part in the documentary film Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula (1997), which detailed the life and acting career of Lugosi. In 2002, she married Grover Asmus, widower of actress Donna Reed.

 

On May 17, 2010, Currie appeared at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills to introduce a screening of a restored print of the first chapter of the 1941 serial, Adventures of Captain Marvel. She made repeat appearances on May 24, 2010 and August 16, 2010.

 

Filmography

 

Year     Title            Role            Notes

1940    Billy the Kid Outlawed            Molly Fitzgerald        

1940    You'll Find Out            Marion            Uncredited

1940    The Green Hornet Strikes Again!            Bordine's Girlfriend            Serial, Uncredited

1940    Billy the Kid Outlawed            Molly Fitzgerald        

1940    Billy the Kid's Gun Justice  Ann Roberts           

1941    The Reluctant Dragon Minor Role            Uncredited

1941    The Pinto Kid            Betty Ainsley

1941            Adventures of Captain Marvel Betty Wallace            Serial

1941    Citizen Kane            Reporter at Xanadu            Uncredited

1941    Hello, Sucker Model            Uncredited

1941    Tillie the Toiler            Office Girl            Uncredited

1941    Double Trouble            Miss Mink   

1941    Look Who's Laughing            Jane, Marge's Friend            Uncredited

1941    Dude Cowboy            Gail Sargent

1941            Bedtime Story Hotel Telephone Operator            Uncredited

1942    Call Out the Marines            Girl Too Tired to Dance            Uncredited

1942    The Bashful Bachelor            Marjorie         

1942            Stardust on the Sage            Nancy Drew   

1943    The Ape Man            Billie Mason 

1943    The Masked Marvel Alice Hamilton            Serial

1943    Around the World            WAAC            Uncredited

1944    Million Dollar Kid            Louise Cortland          

1944            Voodoo Man  Sally    

1944    Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves            Katherine Reynolds     

1944            Christmas Holiday            Stewardess            Uncredited

1944            Sensations of 1945            English Girl            Uncredited

1944            Practically Yours                     Uncredited

1945    Love Letters  Clara Foley            Uncredited

1946    Gun Town            Buckskin Jane Sawyer

1946    The Bachelor's Daughters            Salesgirl            Uncredited

1946    Her Sister's Secret            Dick's Blonde Girlfriend            Uncredited

1946    Wild West            Florabelle Bannister     

1947            Backlash          Marian Gordon           

1947    Three on a Ticket            Helen Brimstead        

1947    The Crimson Key            Heidi   

1947    Second Chance Joan Summers         

1947    Charlie Chan and  the Chinese Ring            Peggy Cartwright       

1949    And Baby Makes Three   Miss Quigley - Secretary            Uncredited

1951    Queen for a Day            Secretary