Freda Cleo Helwig b. 12 MAY 1894 New York, New York, USA d. 18 AUG 1962 Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA: Descendants of Christmann Rittger of Kleinwallstadt, Germany

Peter Rittger of Kleinwallstadt, Bavaria, Germany & Newark, New Jersey

1894 - 1962

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Birth 12 May 1894 New York, New York, USA [1, 2, 3]

Gender Female

Also Known As Cleo Ridgely

Occupation 1915 Actress with Famous Player-Paramount Pictures/Hollywood, California, USA

Residence 1920 Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA [2]

Residence 1930 Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA [3]

Buried 1962 Plot: Vesperland, Lot 844, Space 1 - Forest Lawn Memorial Park/Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Died 18 Aug 1962 Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA [1]

Person ID I20739 Descendants of Christmann Rittger

Last Modified 27 Jul 2010

Father August Helwig

Mother Catherine Sommerkamp, b. 1863, New York, New York, USA

Family ID F2922 Group Sheet

Spouse 1 James Wesley Horne, b. 14 Dec 1881, California, USA , d. 29 Jun 1942, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA

Children

	1. June Jessamine Horne, b. 28 Mar 1917, Los Angeles County, California, USA , d. 17 Sep 1993, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
	2. James Wesley Horne

Family ID F7178 Group Sheet

Spouse 2 Richard Peckover, b. 16 Sep 1869, Kentucky, USA , d. 30 Nov 1949, Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA

Married 1914

Family ID F6888 Group Sheet

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Birth - 12 May 1894 - New York, New York, USA

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Photos		Freda Cleo Helwig - "Cleo Ridgely" Freda Cleo Helwig - "Cleo Ridgely" became a famous actress in silent films with Paramount Pictures in Hollywood.

Headstones		Freda Cleo Helwig Status: Located. Freda Cleo Helwig took on the stage name "Cleo Ridgely" after marrying Richard Ridgely. After Richard died she became "Cleo Ridgely Horne" when she married James Wesley Horne.
		Freda Cleo Helwig and husband James Wesley Horne Status: Located.

Notes	According to the "Internet Movie Database" Cleo Ridgely rode across country on horseback from New York with first husband as publicity stunt, generating wide interest, then settling in Southern California to begin career in silent films. A beautiful blonde leading lady of the mid-1910s, Cleo Ridgley signed with Famous Player/Paramount in 1915 and went on to co-star with the era's greatest matinee idol, Wallace Reid, in no less than seven successful melodramas in 1915-1916, including The Chorus Lady (1915) in which Reid, as a detective, saves her from unscrupulous Broadway "wolves," and Yellow Pawn (1916), where he takes the blame for a murder in order to protect her good name and reputation. The team went their separate ways after Joan the Woman (1916), in which Ridgley played a supporting role as a courtesan, and she spent the remainder of her career in supporting roles. She became a bit part player and dress extra in talkies and can be spotted as late as 1948, playing a schoolteacher in Irene Dunne's I Remember Mama. Ridgley was the wife of comedy director James W. Horne. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide Actress of the Silent-Screen. Born Freda Cleo Helwig, she appeared in a number of silent-era (1910s-20s) films including "Beauty and the Beast" (1912), "The Secret Orchard" (1915), "Dangerous Pastime" (1922), and "The Beautiful and the Damned" (1922). She later had bit parts in a handful of films in the 1930s thru 1950s. Married to prolific director James W. Horne (they are buried side-by-side), and mother of twin actors June Horne and James Horne, Jr. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Sources

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[S002139] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009).
Online publication - Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 on roll 323 (Chicago City.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920.T625, 2,076 rolls. Burbank, Los Angeles County, California, USA, ED , roll , page , image 628.
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