Erle chennault galbraith biography of christopher columbus

This article was updated on Jan. 13, 2004.

Erle Jolson Krasna, widow of legendary entertainer Al Jolson and Oscar-winning screenwriter Norman Krasna, died Sunday Jan.

11 of cancer in Century City, Calif.

Christopher Columbus, Mariner.

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JOURNALS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS ON THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.

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Chennault, Claire Lee, biog.

She was 81.

Born Erle Chennault Galbraith in Kentucky, she was an X-ray technician at an Army hospital in Hot Springs, Ark., when she caught Jolson’s eye while he entertained wounded servicemen there in June 1944.

Jolson called the base commander that night to get her phone number and offered her a Hollywood career.

A raven-haired beauty, Erle arrived in Hollywood later in 1944 to be greeted by Jolson and Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn, who signed her to a studio contract.

She had bit parts in several Columbia films including “A Thousand and One Nights.”

While working at Columbia, she dated Jolson, who by then was thrice married and divorced, and was 36 years her senior. Nonetheless they married in March, 1945, shortly before