- Born
- Died
- Birth nameGurli Andresen
- Nicknames
- The Second Garbo
- Gurli Mlotkowski
- Gwili A. Cross
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Danish-born Gwili Andre was a blonde beauty who had the talent and the looks necessary for the big time, but somehow just couldn't put everything together and was mired in B pictures (e.g., Secrets of the French Police (1932), Roar of the Dragon (1932)) for most of her career. After retiring from the screen, she died in an apartment fire in 1959.- IMDb Mini Biography By: frankfob2@yahoo.com
- SpousesWilliam Dallas Cross Jr.(1940 - 1948) (divorced, 1 child)Stanislaw Miotkowk(1929 - 1935) (divorced)
- Struggled as an actress, but was a very successful model before that.
- Kenneth Anger's book "Hollywood Babylon" sensationalized the tragic February 1959 death of the actress, although his "theory" is not based on fact. He claims it was a bizarre suicide triggered by years of alcoholism and failed attempts to revive her stalled career. Anger claims that, alone in her apartment in Venice, CA, she gathered together reams of publicity stills and promotional material from her early career and set them on fire, allowing herself to be consumed by the flames. In truth, a fire broke out in her bedroom while she was asleep. She was found on the bathroom floor, having died of smoke inhalation. The scrapbook referred to of her modeling and film career managed to escape the wrath of the flames.
- Lived her final years at a beachfront apartment in Venice, CA, in obscurity. Her neighbors never knew about her Hollywood past.
- Turned to alcohol in her later years after her career was over. Lost custody of her only child in the mid-'50s, Peter, because of it.
- Her last film was The Falcon's Brother (1942). She played a murder victim.
- Upon her death, she was cremated at Forest Lawn in Glendale, CA, and her ashes were sent to burial at Søndermark Cemetery in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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