Gypsy Norman

Biography

The daughter of an American living abroad, Aedita Stuart grew up in France and was known as a great beauty. First married to a French nobleman who died in World War I, the widowed Countess de Beaumont went on the stage as a dancer and actress, using the name "Gypsy Norman", performing both on Broadway and in vaudeville from 1921. She was married to her second husband, cartoonist Bud Fisher, by the captain of the ocean liner "Leviathan"; although the marriage lasted only a few months, she was Fisher's sole heir and after his death, owned the copyright to his comic strip "Mutt and Jeff", which afforded her a comfortable retirement.