Margaret Tallichet

Margaret "Talli" Tallichet (March 13, 1914 – May 3, 1991) was an American actress and longtime wife of movie director William Wyler.

She was the great-granddaughter of Albert Tallichet, an antebellum emigre from Switzerland who settled in the town of Demopolis, Alabama, where he ran a grocery store.

[3] According to her obituary in the Los Angeles Times, she was working in the publicity department at Paramount Pictures when she was befriended by actress Carole Lombard.

In 1938, an agent introduced her to Goldwyn Pictures director William Wyler, who had been divorced from his first wife Margaret Sullavan, since 1936.

After completing this film, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps and flew in missions over Europe in order to make documentaries about those adventures.

Tallichet (center) in A Star Is Born (1937)
Tallichet, c. 1940