Born in the Netherlands of Greek/Dutch descent, Lou Tellegen . They divorced in 1919, and he penned his autobiography "Women Have Been Kind" in 1931, the title of which 'Vanity Fair' later suggested should have been "Women Have Been Kind of Dumb". Ill and debt-ridden, Lou Tellegen committed suicide in 1934 at the Cudahy mansion near Hollywood & Vine by stabbing himself with a pair of scissors.
Silent-screen actor, formerly leading man and paramour to a considerably Sarah Bernhardt.
The illegitimate son of a Spanish dancer and general in the army of Queen Wilhemina.
Tellegen suffered severe burns when he fell asleep with a lighted cigarette in his Atlantic City hotel on Christmas Day, 1929. He underwent extensive plastic surgery in 1931.
Author of autobiography, Women Have Been Kind," was published in 1932.
