Carmel Myers(1899-1980)

Was involved in an auto accident in 1931 when the car she was driving, lent to her by theatrical agent Milton C. Bren, overturned. Myers sustained cuts to her face, a broken wrist and a broken arm, so she sued Bren for $50,000.

David W. Griffith [D.W. Griffith] had come to Dad and interviewed him concerning some of the historical background for "Intolerance" [Intoleranz (1916)]. One day when I was with Dad I met Mr. Griffith. I had been passing the "Intolerance" sets - the walls of Babylon and all that - almost every day on my way to and from school, and I had taken particular notice of the two stucco or papier mache figures of elephants with their trunks curled up. "They - those elephants - always seem to be beckoning me," I told Mr. Griffith, "saying, 'Come on! Come on!'"