Nita Pike was a beautiful French starlet who committed suicide in 1954
She was born Juanita Magda Pike on August 1, 1913 in Paris, France. Her father, James Pike, was an American who worked in advertising. When she was a child her family moved to Los Angeles, California. At the age of eighteen she was hired by Samuel Goldwyn to be one of his “Goldwyn Girls”. Nita made her film debut in the 1931 musical Palmy Days with Eddie Cantor. Then the beautiful blonde appeared in the films The Merry Widow, Espionage, and Sherman Said It. Sadly in 1934 her older brother James died in a car crash. The following year she was injured in a car accident and sued the driver for $25,000. On April 16, 1938 she married actor Allen Edwards, who was twenty years older than her. Charlie Chaplin cast her as a secretary in his 1940 comedy The Great Dictator. She continued making movies like Keep Your Powder Dry and Of Human Bondage