Personal Life
He dropped out of school several times before finally attending Wabash College. While at Wabash he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. He worked as a teacher before studying acting at Chicago's Lyceum Art Conservatory. Before making his first movie "in 1929, Jagger had worked in stock, vaudeville and radio."
Jagger was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1972.
He died from heart disease in Santa Monica, California. He was 87, and was buried in the small town of Hughson, California, at Lakewood Memorial Park. His widow, Etta Mae Norton Jagger, joined him there in death just 11 months later, in January 17, 1992. She was 67.
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