Mamo Clark

Mamo Clark
from the trailer for the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935).
Born	December 6, 1914(1914-12-06) Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Died	December 18, 1986 (aged 72), aged 72 Panorama City, California, U.S.
Other name(s)	Mamo

Mamo Clark, sometimes billed only as Mamo, (6 December 1914 – 18 December 1986) was a Hawaiian born American actress and Author.

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Clark sailed to the mainland United States on board the USS Malolo on July 1, 1933 with her parents May Kaaolani Clark and Joseph Kealakaimana Clark. She was a descendant of the great Kamahameha Dynasty which can be traced back to the ancient dynasty of Liloa. Clark was educated at the University of Southern California, and made her film debut in a featured role in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) acting as Miamiti, Clark Gable's wife in the film. The following year she appeared in a serial Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island playing a Polynesian princess. In 1937, she appeared with her Mutiny on the Bounty co-star, Movita, in The Hurricane but her career failed to advance and over the next few years she played roles in several 'B-pictures', invariably with Pacific Island settings. One Million B.C. (1940) provided her with a substantial role as the Queen of the Rock Tribe appearing with Lon Chaney Jr., but by this time her career was virtually over. She retired from films after a minor role in the Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne film Seven Sinners (1940).

Following her retirement, she obtained a degree in cinematography from UCLA in 1966, and later wrote a book about her life titled Except Their Sun. The book was copyrighted by her late husband James M. Rawley in 1994 and published by the Abigail Kekaulike Kawananakoa Foundation the same year.

She died from cancer in Panorama City, California.

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