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Leonora Hughes
A young white woman with dark bobbed hair, wearing a dark cloche hat low over her brow
Leonora Hughes, photographed by Edward Steichen for Vanity Fair (1924)
Born
Leonora Marion Hughes

(1897-03-31)March 31, 1897
Chicago, Illinois
DiedFebruary 1978(1978-02-00) (aged 80)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Other namesLeonore Hughes, Lenora Basualdo
OccupationsDancer, socialite

Leonora Marion Hughes (March 31, 1897[1] – February 1978), also seen as Leonore Hughes, was an American dancer, one of the partners of Belgian dancer Maurice Mouvet.

Early life and education

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Leonora Hughes was born in Chicago and raised in New York City,[2] one of the eight children of Thomas Hughes and Mary McGuire Hughes.[3] Her parents were Irish immigrants to the United States.

Career

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A drawing of Leonora Hughes and Maurice Mouvet by Sem, originally published in 1923[4]

Hughes was a telephone operator as a young woman.[2] She was the third dance partner of Maurice Mouvet,[5] beginning after his divorce from Florence Walton, until Hughes retired from dancing to marry in 1925.[6] "Her principal qualification as a partner was her ability to meet the moods of Maurice," recalled a 1927 article, "and their work together was remarkable".[7][8] They toured together for several years in Europe and North America,[9] and appeared on Broadway together in the musical Good Morning Dearie (1922).[10]

Hughes was considered a stylish beauty in the 1920s and 1930s.[11][12] Edward Steichen photographed her in 1923, for Vogue magazine, and in 1924 for Vanity Fair.[13] She appeared in two silent films: The Indestructible Wife (1919) starring Alice Brady, and The Rejected Woman (1924) starring Bela Lugosi and Alma Rubens.

Personal life

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Alfonso of Spain and his cousin, Duke Ferdinand of Dúrcal, both wooed Hughes in the early 1920s.[4] In 1925, Hughes married wealthy Argentinian Carlos Ortiz Basualdo at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.[14][15] They had two children, Carlos Fermín and María Matilde.[16][17][18] They hosted international visitors, including British princes, John J. Pershing, and Noël Coward, at the Basualdo family's cattle ranch near Lake Nahuel Huapi.[19][20] Her husband died in a speedboat accident in 1935.[21] She died in 1978, in Buenos Aires, at the age of 80.

References

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  1. ↑ Some sources give 1898 or 1899 as the year of her birth.
  2. 1 2 Hellinger, Mark (June 16, 1929). "About Broadway". Daily News. p. 309. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ "Mary Hughes (death notice)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. July 12, 1930. p. 20. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. 1 2 "How a King Makes Love". The Macon News. October 28, 1923. p. 23. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "Society's Latest Playground". The Sketch. 109: xii. March 31, 1920.
  6. ↑ "Famous Dancer in a New Role". Johnson City Staff-News. October 29, 1928. p. 6. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ↑ "When Death Played for the Dance". The Spokesman-Review. June 19, 1927. p. 62. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ↑ Malnig, Julie (1995). Dancing Till Dawn: A Century of Exhibition Ballroom Dance. NYU Press. pp. 110–111. ISBN 978-0-8147-5528-0.
  9. ↑ Giordano, Ralph G. (October 23, 2008). Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City. Scarecrow Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8108-6363-7.
  10. ↑ Dietz, Dan (April 10, 2019). The Complete Book of 1920s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-1-5381-1282-3.
  11. ↑ Lake, Talbot (February 23, 1938). "Glamour Girl in U.S. Again for a Visit; Leonora Hughes Dances No More". The Evening Sun. p. 20. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ "Distressing Tragedy of Mrs. Nash's Evening Gown". The San Francisco Examiner. July 27, 1924. p. 113. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ↑ Steichen, Edward (October 1924). "Leonora Hughes: International Dancer and Favourite". Vanity Fair. p. 71.
  14. ↑ "Argentine Who Wed Dancer Leonora Hughes Drowned in Speedboat". Hartford Courant. December 14, 1935. p. 18. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ Hunt, C. de Vidal (August 30, 1925). "Little Miss Bennett and the Rich South American". The Spokesman-Review. p. 61. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ↑ "Milestones: Mar. 29, 1926". Time. March 29, 1926. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
  17. ↑ Hope, Jane (March 10, 1935). "Leonora Hughes, Once Famous as Dancer, Prefers Argentinian Husband to Broadway". Richmond Times-Dispatch. p. 42. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ↑ Nisonoff, Louis (September 14, 1927). "Leonora Hughes Turns Honeymoon Steps Homeward". Daily News. p. 314. Retrieved April 11, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ↑ Hoare, Philip (May 21, 2013). Noel Coward: A Biography of Noel Coward. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-3749-2.
  20. ↑ Coward, Noël (August 22, 2014). Future Indefinite. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 297. ISBN 978-1-4081-9148-4.
  21. ↑ "Basualdo Drowns in Lake Accident; Husband of Leonora Hughes Killed When His Speedboat Overturns in Argentina". The New York Times. December 14, 1935. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
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