Devera Burton

Devera Burstein Kettner, a former actress and model who once managed theCurran Theatre in San Francisco.Born and raised in San Francisco, Mrs. Kettner was a famous beauty whograduated from Lowell High School and worked as a professional fashionmodel.She acted in local small theater productions and then moved to SouthernCalifornia, where she studied theater at the Pasadena Playhouse. She soongot a number of bit parts in movies.Her big break came in 1949, when, under her screen name Devera Burton, shelanded a starring role in the South Seas epic Omoo-Omoo the Shark God,which was loosely based on a novel by Herman Melville. The movie remains aminor cult classic still available on videotape. After the film, she gave upher screen career to marry the late Max Kettner and move to New York.

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