Swedish actress Lili Kardell poses with her '56 Pontiac in front of her apartment in the 8900 block of Harratt St., West Hollywood....photo is undated but '56 or '57 is likely....
....at the time Kardell was living at 8909 Harratt, a unit in the 4-plex which runs 8907 to 8913....San Vicente Blvd. is the cross street, just below the Strip...
....the car was moved to the south side of Harratt for this one....
Oh my....
Lili Kardell was born in Sweden in 1931 (she later shaved 5 years off her age, so some sites show her born 1936) and arrived in Hollywood about 1953....she caught the eye of Billy Wilder who referred her to an agent, and she was put under contract to Universal....a minor career followed, mostly small TV roles.....Kardell and James Dean were an item in the months immediately preceding his death....
She married Peter V. Paxton, an insurance broker, in July '58....the couple lost a premature infant on May 9, 1959....
Kardell and Paxton separated May 20 1959 and a divorce was granted 8/4/59....
By 1960 Kardell had a new flame, Troy Donahue....
Spoiler alert: Donahue and Kardell never married.....during their courtship she appeared unannounced at his home and found him with another woman, and that was that....in '62 she sued Donahue for $60,000 alleging domestic abuse, the matter was settled out-of-court.....Donahue eventually married Suzanne Pleshette, a union that lasted all of 5 months, as Pleshette quickly bowed out on "mental cruelty" grounds....
Kardell's last screen credit was in 1965, shortly thereafter she moved to N.Y.C., where she worked in interior decorating and later fashion design....she died in Manhattan on 4/8/87, at age 55....