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Date Posted: Sat, November 17 2018, 10:22:52
BULL MONTANA Bio
http://www.lordheath.com/menu1_672.html
Birth and death dates correct.
Born: Voghera, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy .
Height: 5'8”.....Passport 1922.
5'9”.....WWII Draft Card 1942.
5'10”...”Blue Book of the Screen” 1923.
Birth name: Luigi Montagna. Legally changed to Louis Montana with 1921 citizenship.
Luigi immigrated to the USA from Italy in 1906. He did professional wrestling on the side while he worked in a quarry. The wrestling became more lucrative and he started doing it full-time. Supposedly, Douglas Fairbanks saw him working out in a gym and invited him to come to Hollywood to act in films. (His 1917 Draft Card backs this up.)
He did well in films and moved up in the ranks of professional wrestlers.
About 1924, he “married” a professional dancer from Georgia who went by the name “Jackie LaVerne”. He never admitted they were married but she said they were. (Have not found a marriage record and 1910 and 1920 and 1923 Blue Book list him as “single” and 1931 Marriage Certificate to another woman says that it is his 1st marriage.) They made the newspapers in 1928 when Bull had her arrested for “assault with a slipper”. They were arguing in his car on the way back from dinner and she struck him in the head with her “French heel” slipper. It evidently was not a stunt as she went to jail and 2 days later, Bull paid her $100 bail and asked the judge to quash the guilty verdict and jail sentence. The judge complied and sentenced her to 2 years probation. Bull said she would never enter his home again.
In 1929, Bull met, courted and married (21 September) a 23 year-old widow, Mary Mathews Poulson. Supposedly, she was a businesswoman/secretary and former actress. They made the newspapers in 1931 when she sued for divorce.
From the "LA Times" 22 Aug 1931 p.16:
"...... He frowns, scowls, grimaces, glares, glowers and squints. Sometimes he smiled, said Mrs. Montana, but that was nearly as bad.
In addition, the plaintiff testified, Bull would occasionally get drunk and when intoxicated his face was just simply nothing a witness could discuss in open court, she said.
And once, after making the most terrible faces, said the witness, Mr. Montana began growling at me. It sounded so fearful that I had a nervous breakdown. And then he wouldn't let my mother come and see me when I was ill.
Mrs. Rosalie Mathews corroborated her daughter's testimony as to that."
Her divorce was granted 21 August 1931.
Sources:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGDV-LGY 1910 Census Bradford. PA.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6JC-TF5?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=LRF1-3YV 1917 WWI Draft Card LA/NYC.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQV-THD 1920 Census LA.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVR2-LRDV 1922 Passport ht: 5'8”.
https://archive.org/stream/bluebookofscreen00unse#page/167/mode/1up/search/%22bull+montana%22 1923 Blue Book bio 5'10”.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380481453/?terms=%22bull%2Bmontana%22 1928 “wife” JACKIE assault.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380482575/?terms=%22bull%2Bmontana%22&match=2 1928 “wife” JACKIE sentenced.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCFG-NQH 1930 Census LA married.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8NT-CJ4 1929 Marriage to Mary Mathews.
https://www.newspapers.com/image/380327309/?terms=%22bull%2Bmontana%22 1931 divorce.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CC-ZQ3 1940 Census LA divorced .
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4D4-W8N 1942 WWII Draft 5'9”.
https://wiki2.org/en/Bull_Montana#cite_note-obit-1 Wiki Bio.
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1193&h=4181378&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=6224
1920 Naturalization Petition 5'8”.
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/33346438?p=11983504&returnLabel=Lewis%20Montagna%20(LRF1-3YV)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.familysearch.org%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fmemories%2FLRF1-3YV 1950 NY Times obit.
BULL MONTANA: has only one ROACH credit on his HoF Page: “On the Front Page”.
Was in “The Timber Queen”.......1922.
Was in “Laughing Ladies”..........1925. Has no A-Z listing.
Was in “The Uneasy Three”.......1925.
Was in “Stop, Look and Listen”..1926 with Larry Semon and Oliver Hardy.
Was in “Ukulele Sheiks”............ 1926 Has no A-Z listing.
Was in “On the Front Page”.…...1926 Has cast screenshot and credit on HoF Page.
Was in “The Sting of Stings”.….1927.
Was in “Many Scrappy Returns”1927
Was in “Limousine Love” …......1928.
Was in “The Fight Pest” ….........1928 Has no A-Z listing: has Ch.Chase listing.
Was in “Loud Soup” …...............1929 Has no A-Z listing: has Ch.Chase listing.
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