Flower Parry

Flower Parry was a native Californian who broke into show business as a dancer in Nils T. Granlund's Florentine Gardens Revue in 1941. Working as a cigarette girl she met then soon married Jackie Coogan that year and they had one son, Jackie Coogan Jr. (birth name: John Anthony Coogan), born on March 4, 1942. She and Coogan divorced in June of 1943. During the mid-forties, she was also employed at Republic Pictures as a secretary and picking up bit and extra work at various studios in Hollywood. In 1945 she married entrepreneur Hal Baker Cope; they divorced in 1950. The marriage produced two sons, Christopher and Milo (Matt). In December 1956 she married actor Eddie Hall, who had given up acting and was a car salesman, and the union lasted until his death in 1963. They had one son, Parry Alan Hall, born on November 25, 1957. She continued to do movie and television extra work until mid-1979. She died September 10, 1981 from a short bout with cancer. She is buried next to her husband Eddie Hall at Forest Lawn Hollywood, overlooking Warner Bros. Studios.