As per our current Database, Olympe Bradna has been died on 5 November, 2012 at Stockton, California, USA.
When Olympe Bradna die, Olympe Bradna was 92 years old.
| Popular As | Olympe Bradna |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 92 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Leo |
| Born | August 12, 1920 (Paris, France) |
| Birthday | August 12 |
| Town/City | Paris, France |
| Nationality | France |
Olympe Bradna’s zodiac sign is Leo. According to astrologers, people born under the sign of Leo are natural born leaders. They are dramatic, creative, self-confident, dominant and extremely difficult to resist, able to achieve anything they want to in any area of life they commit to. There is a specific strength to a Leo and their "king of the jungle" status. Leo often has many friends for they are generous and loyal. Self-confident and attractive, this is a Sun sign capable of uniting different groups of people and leading them as one towards a shared cause, and their healthy sense of humor makes collaboration with other people even easier.
Olympe Bradna was born in the Year of the Monkey. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Monkey thrive on having fun. They’re energetic, upbeat, and good at listening but lack self-control. They like being active and stimulated and enjoy pleasing self before pleasing others. They’re heart-breakers, not good at long-term relationships, morals are weak. Compatible with Rat or Dragon.
Brunette leading lady, signed by Paramount in 1936. She was introduced with a famous publicity campaign, which instructed prospective American audiences to pronounce her first name 'O-lamp'. She was born backstage, in between a matinée and evening performance to vaudevillians Joseph and Jeanne Bradna.
Their dog act featured at the Olympia Theatre in Paris -- hence her first name. The Bradnas had been in show business for generations. Her father had been a circus rider and former ringmaster for Ringling Brothers.
Likewise, her uncle Fred had been ringmaster for Barnum & Bailey. Her mother was a former operatic singer. Trained by her dad, Olympe soon joined the family business as a singer and dancer. Even before reaching her teens, she performed as an acrobatic dancer, costumed as a sailor, in a Parisian production of the Broadway musical "Hit the Deck", billed as the "tiniest sailor in France".
Olympe became noted for her poise and for her ballet taps, later joining an American company of the Folies Bergere as an acrobatic dancer for Chicago's World Fair. She then performed for eight months at the French Casino in New York, where she was 'discovered' by Paramount talent scouts and discreetly signed under contract.
For three months, Olympe was tutored in English, tap dancing and horse riding. She was then launched in a minor musical, Three Cheers for Love (1936). In the same year, she also made College Holiday (1936), but her tiny role was totally submerged by the antics of star comedians Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Martha Raye.
Her first leading role was opposite Gene Raymond in Stolen Heaven (1938), a forgettable second-string programmer about a couple of jewel thieves on the run. This was followed by the Ray Milland comedy Say It in French (1938) and a sentimental theatrical drama, The Night of Nights (1939), which flopped despite a script by Donald Ogden Stewart and direction by Lewis Milestone.
On loan to Warners, Olympe made three more films, the last being International Squadron (1941), an airborne drama about a cocky American pilot in the RAF, starring Ronald Reagan. In the majority of her films as the perfunctory love interest to sporting champs or war heroes, she had little else to do but be ornamental.
Unsurprisingly, Olympe gave it all up in 1941 upon her marriage to Santa Barbara socialite Douglass Wood Wilhoit Sr., devoting the rest of her life to family and various charities.
