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Jigee Viertel (born Virginia Lee Ray; September 30, 1915 – January 31, 1960) was an actress in early Hollywood pictures and later the wife of screenwriters Budd Schulberg and Peter Viertel. She was active in early Hollywood socialist organizing and later in life was linked to the writers Ring Lardner, Jr. and Ernest Hemingway.
Varying sources show that Viertel and Jigee divorced in 1958, 1959, or were still separated but legally married upon her death in January 1960. Bettina left him for Prince Aly Khan in 1955, and was pregnant with Khan's child when he died in May 1960.
Four recently discovered love letters reveal the players in this ménage à quatre: Ernest Hemingway, fresh from completing Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), his first novel in 10 years; his wife, Mary; Jigee Viertel (née Virginia Ray of Pittsburgh); and Viertel’s husband, Peter, also a writer, who later penned a memoir of ...
6. Nov. 2007 · Peter Viertel, the novelist, memoirist and screenwriter best known for his books chronicling episodes in the lives of Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, has died. He was 86. Viertel died of...
21. Dez. 2007 · Tom Vallance. Peter Viertel, screen-writer and novelist: born Dresden, Germany 16 November 1920; married first Jigee Ray (died 1960; one daughter; marriage dissolved), secondly 1960 Deborah...
Reputedly dependent on alcohol and sleeping medication, Viertel woke one night in her Los Angeles home and while in the bathroom lit a cigarette that she then dropped inadvertently into the pocket of her dressing gown, causing her immolation. She died from the burns she suffered a month later. Nickname: Jigee.
The Life Summary of Jigee. When Jigee Viertel was born on 3 September 1915, in Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Robert M Ray Jr, was 42 and her mother, Mazie Lauth, was 23. She married Budd Wilson Schulberg on 31 December 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
