Editing Lou Tellegen (section)

==Later career and death==
In 1931, he wrote his autobiography ''Women Have Been Kind''.

By 1931, Tellegen’s popularity had declined and he had trouble securing acting work. He was also deeply in debt and filed for bankruptcy. Around this time, Tellegen was diagnosed with cancer, though this information was kept from him. Tellegen soon grew despondent.

On October 29, 1934, while a guest of Edna Cudahy, the widow of meat packing heir Jack Cudahy, at the Cudahy Mansion at 1844 North Vine Street in Hollywood (the site of the Vine-Franklin underpass of the [[Hollywood Freeway]]), Tellegen locked himself in the bathroom, then shaved and powdered his face. While standing in front of a full-length mirror, he stabbed himself in the heart seven times with a pair of sewing scissors. Some accounts claim Tellegen was surrounded by newspaper clippings of his career at the time of his suicide.<ref>{{cite book |title=Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews |last=Mankiewicz |first=Joseph L. |year=2008 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-934110-24-9 |pages=61}}</ref><ref name=time>{{cite magazine| title=Metropolitan Announcer |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748091-2,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023120723/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,748091-2,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 23, 2012 |magazine=Time |date=1934-11-12 |access-date=2008-03-30}}</ref>

When asked to comment on Tellegen's death former wife Geraldine Farrar replied "Why should that interest me?" Tellegen was cremated and his remains were scattered at sea.<ref name=time />