Sonia Karlov (born , date of death unknown)[note ] was an American
dancer, stage, and motion picture actress from Syracuse, New York. Her
birth name was Alma Jeanne Williams.Williams was selected as Miss
Syracuse of and went on to participate in that year's Miss America
contest. She was sixteen years of age. Afterward she moved to New York
City along with her sister Mary. Ned Wayburn signed her to perform in
the Ziegfeld Follies of Flo Ziegfeld.Karlov moved to Hollywood as a
-year-old but left without a movie contract, her only film work having
been appearing as an extra in one production and performing "a
perilous high-dive" in another. Then she was in an auto accident and
lay in a hospital bed, disabled physically for six weeks. During this
time she concocted a bold hoax which she intended to carry out. She
also changed her hair color from brunette to blond. She returned to
Hollywood using the name of Sonia Karlov, Norwegian actress.
Supposedly she was the daughter of a Russian father and a Norwegian
mother. Karlov hired a press agent after convincing him that she was a
great foreign actress. Another version of how Jeanne became Sonia is
that she began dating a press agent who came up with the entire
deception. Later he got drunk and revealed everything.She feared being
discovered by her friends and later told an interviewer, "The first
glance friends would give me, terrified me."
dancer, stage, and motion picture actress from Syracuse, New York. Her
birth name was Alma Jeanne Williams.Williams was selected as Miss
Syracuse of and went on to participate in that year's Miss America
contest. She was sixteen years of age. Afterward she moved to New York
City along with her sister Mary. Ned Wayburn signed her to perform in
the Ziegfeld Follies of Flo Ziegfeld.Karlov moved to Hollywood as a
-year-old but left without a movie contract, her only film work having
been appearing as an extra in one production and performing "a
perilous high-dive" in another. Then she was in an auto accident and
lay in a hospital bed, disabled physically for six weeks. During this
time she concocted a bold hoax which she intended to carry out. She
also changed her hair color from brunette to blond. She returned to
Hollywood using the name of Sonia Karlov, Norwegian actress.
Supposedly she was the daughter of a Russian father and a Norwegian
mother. Karlov hired a press agent after convincing him that she was a
great foreign actress. Another version of how Jeanne became Sonia is
that she began dating a press agent who came up with the entire
deception. Later he got drunk and revealed everything.She feared being
discovered by her friends and later told an interviewer, "The first
glance friends would give me, terrified me."
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