Myrtle Vail
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Leaving home at fifteen to pursue entertainment, Myrtle Vail grew up in Joliet, Illinois, where her painter-decorator father lived, and spent the 1910s and 1920s touring as a vaudeville performer alongside her husband, George Damerel, and later their children. After the 1929 crash wiped out the family’s investments, she turned to radio, conceiving the soap opera Myrt and Marge based on her own exp…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
