Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald knew Laurell in New York in Paris. She would eventually make it into Zelda's story The Original Follies Girl (1929). Great article from a few years back.
Jonathan BurdickMy latest story is about Kay Laurell, a #Broadway and silent-era Hollywood star, who grew up in Erie County, PA. "She wasn't very sentimental, but I thought she was marvelous," actress and friend Helen Hayes recalled. "She was authentic." #History #skystorians www.eriereader.com/article/less...