Don Alvarado (November 4, 1904 – March 31, 1967) was an American actor, assistant film director, and film production manager.
Born as José Paige in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he went to Los Angeles in 1922, still a teenager, hoping to find acting work in the fledgling silent film industry. There, he became close friends with another Mexican actor, Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, who would later be known as Gilbert Roland.
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Don Alvarado (November 4, 1904 – March 31, 1967) was an American actor, assistant film director, and film production manager.
Born as José Paige in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he went to Los Angeles in 1922, still a teenager, hoping to find acting work in the fledgling silent film industry. There, he became close friends with another Mexican actor, Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso, who would later be known as Gilbert Roland.
The struggling young actors shared a place for a time, but Alvarado soon met and fell in love with sixteen-year-old Ann Boyar (1908–1990), the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. They married in 1924. Later that year they had a daughter, actress Joy Page. Jack Warner convinced Ann to file for a quick divorce from Alvarado in Mexico in August 1932. She moved in with Warner perhaps as early as September 1933, and married him in 1936. In 1932, Alvarado was briefly engaged to the musical-comedy star Marilyn Miller, but the marriage did not take place.
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