Addie McPhail

Addie McPhail (July 15, 1905 – April 14, 2003) was an American film actress.

McPhail was born Addie Dukes in White Plains, Kentucky, on July 15, 1905. Her parents were Van and Cordelia Dukes, and she attended schools in Madisonville and Providence, Kentucky. Her father worked in insurance, and the family often moved. They went to Chicago in 1911 and "settled for a long period". While there, she won several contests on stage. They went to Hollywood in 1925, a move that McPhail considered to be fate because she wanted to be an actress.

McPhail began her work in films with Stern Brothers, a studio that produced short comedies that Universal distributed. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1927 and 1941.^{[citation needed]} The physical demands of comedy gradually diminished McPhail's interest in acting, and she later said, "Maybe I was never the actress I wanted to be." Her film career ended with Northwest Passage (1940).

McPhail's first husband was Lindsay McPhail, a pianist and songwriter with whom she had a daughter. She was the third and last wife of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. After she retired from acting, she served for 17 years as a volunteer nurse at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

McPhail died of undisclosed causes in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, on April 14, 2003.