Dagmar Dahlgren

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Dagmar Dahlgren (January 17, 1880 – October 20, 1951) was an American dancer, singer, and silent-film actress. She was born in Oakland, California, to Danish immigrant parents and studied dance with Isadora Duncan. Dahlgren later worked in Los Angeles, and her film career lasted from 1920 to 1922.

She married several times. Her first husband was Lambert R. Hynes, an Oakland firefighter, in 1913; he died a few years later. In April 1920 she became the eighth wife of Norman Selby, known as Kid McCoy, but they lived together for only three days. In 1924 McCoy faced murder charges in the death of Teresa Mora; Dahlgren testified, saying she had not seen him in the two years before Mora’s death, and the jury ultimately found him guilty of manslaughter on a compromise verdict.

Dahlgren later married Victor Rodman, actor; then Alek Kipper, a vaudeville partner; and Herbert S. Calvert, a Berkeley dance teacher, whom she wed in May 1935 after accusing him of trying to smother her with a pillow in April of the same year. In her later years she lived in seclusion in Oakland and died there in 1951 at the age of 71.