‘Exotic Siren’ Jetta Goudal Dies

Jetta Goudal, the tall, sophisticated actress cast as an exotic siren in more than a dozen silent and sound films, died today in Los Angeles.

She was 86. She had a stage career in her native France and on Broadway before coming to films in 1923 in “The Bright Shawl.” Most of her films were for Cecil B. DeMille and she often appeared at DeMille retrospectives. Her last picture was “Business and Pleasure” with Will Rogers in 1932. She was the wife of Harold Grieve, veteran film art director, who survives.