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Elsie Ferguson
New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress. At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered he…
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From Wikipedia Elsie Louise Ferguson (August 19, 1883 – November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress. At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered her a contract but she declined them all until widely respected New York-based French director, Maurice Tourneur, proposed she appear in the lead role as a sophisticated patrician in his 1917 silent film, Barbary Sheep. She also may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her beloved Broadway employers Henry B. Harris, who died on the Titanic in 1912, and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in 1915. Producer and director Adolph Zukor then signed her to an 18-film, three-year contract. In 1921, she accepted another contract offer from Paramount Pictures to star in four films to be spread over a two-year period. One of these was the 1921 film entitled Forever in which she starred opposite the leading heartthrob of the day, Wallace Reid. In 1925, she made only one film before returning to the Broadway stage. In 1930 she made her first talkie that would also be her final film, titled Scarlet Pages, which is now preserved in the Library of Congress. Although her voice came across well enough, at age 47, she was well past her prime for fans who wanted to see her as the great youthful beauty she had once been. Elsie Ferguson died in Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut in 1961.
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1930
Scarlet Pages
Movie Mary Bancroft
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1925
The Unknown Lover
Movie Elaine Kent
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1922
Outcast
Movie Miriam
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1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie Self
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1921
Forever
Movie Mimsi
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1921
Footlights
Movie Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
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1921
Sacred and Profane Love
Movie Carlotta Peel
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1920
Lady Rose's Daughter
Movie Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
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1920
His House in Order
Movie Nina Graham
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1919
Counterfeit
Movie Virginia Griswold
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1919
A Society Exile
Movie Nora Shard, aka Christine
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1919
The Witness for the Defense
Movie Stella Derrick
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1919
The Avalanche
Movie Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
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1919
Eyes of the Soul
Movie Gloria Swann
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1919
The Marriage Price
Movie Helen Tremaine
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1919
His Parisian Wife
Movie Fauvette
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1918
Under the Greenwood Tree
Movie Mary Hamilton
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1918
The Spirit That Wins
Movie Elsie
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1918
Heart of the Wilds
Movie Jen Galbraith
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1918
The Danger Mark
Movie Geraldine Seagrave
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1918
A Doll's House
Movie Nora Helmer
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1918
The Lie
Movie Elinor Shale
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1918
The Song of Songs
Movie Lily Kardos
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1918
Rose of the World
Movie Rosamond English
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1917
The Rise of Jenny Cushing
Movie Jenny Cushing
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1917
Barbary Sheep
Movie Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne
