As per our current Database, Alma Lloyd has been died on 14 June, 1988 at Santa Barbara, California, USA.
When Alma Lloyd die, Alma Lloyd was 74 years old.
| Popular As | Alma Lloyd |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Age | 74 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 3, 1914 (Los Angeles, California, USA) |
| Birthday | April 3 |
| Town/City | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | USA |
Alma Lloyd’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Alma Lloyd was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Alma was one of the myriad of star-struck hopefuls who never quite made the grade in 1930s Hollywood. A strikingly attractive blue-eyed blonde, she began on stage as a six-year old child star in 'Berkeley Square' and 'East Lynne'.
Her father was the prominent film director Frank Lloyd (of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) fame), while her mother had acted in vaudeville. Alma was tutored at Cumnock and Marlborough private academies and studied drama at the Pasadena Community Playhouse.
Following her graduation at 18, she returned to the stage for 'Cavalcade' and 'Mary of Scotland' and made her screen bow the following year in the Fox production of Jimmy and Sally (1933) (incidentally, her childhood nickname was also 'Jimmie').
She was then signed by Warner Brothers and began the merry-go-round of 'no-name' bit parts as nurses, receptionists and telephone operators. This routine, as it turned out, was only once interrupted by a rare (but small) featured part as Colette in the François Villon biopic If I Were King (1938), which was directed by her father.
There had even been a female lead, but that was in a B-grade Guy Kibbee comedy, The Big Noise (1936), which, in actual fact, made no noise at all.Her career may well have turned out differently had she not been cruelly condemned to what a contemporary article called 'death on the cutting room floor': a key scene -- for which Alma had arduously prepared and which was to be her breakthrough -- as Florence Udney opposite Fredric March in the classic Anthony Adverse (1936) was quietly purged from the picture as 'excess footage'.
Poor Alma never quite recovered from this setback. In 1938, she married the Broadway actor and dialogue director Franklin Gray, had four children and left film acting in her wake.
