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Fontaine La Rue
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929.…
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Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies. She was one of seven children born to Diego and Carlotta Monreal Fernandez. After immigrating to the United States in 1907, Matilda married Victor Garcia Rojas. The couple had three children, Victor Paul, Matilda Garcia, and Victoria Grace. After the couple divorced, Matilda entered show business. She got her start on stage as a toe dancer and in musical comedy. She toured with the Trimble Musical Comedy Company in 1914 before breaking into films the following year in comedy shorts for Keystone. She first used the name Dora Rodgers, but reinvented herself with the name Fontaine La Rue, tiring of playing vamps. On occasions she would switch between the names. Notably she appeared in the lost film, A Blind Bargain with Lon Chaney. After a lengthy love affair with actor Nelson McDowell, Fontaine married real estate broker Wayne Hancock and retired from the screen. The Keystone Vamp died of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on September 13, 1964, at UCLA Medical Center.
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1927
Gold from Weepah
Movie Pearl
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1926
His New York Wife
Movie Julia Hewitt
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1925
Flyin' Thru
Movie Sybil
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1925
Love on the Rio Grande
Movie
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1924
Trigger Fingers
Movie Wetona
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1924
The Torrent
Movie Dancing Girl
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1924
Unseen Hands
Movie Madame Le Quintrec
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1924
Daughters of Today
Movie Mrs. Mantell
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1923
The Showdown
Movie
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1923
The Love Letter
Movie
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1923
The Social Buccaneer
Movie
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1922
A Blind Bargain
Movie Mrs. Lamb
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1922
Oh, Mabel Behave
Movie The Barmaid
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1922
The Bear Cat
Movie Mary Lang
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1922
The Dangerous Little Demon
Movie Helene Westley
- 1922
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1922
The Secret Code
Movie
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1922
The Isle of Love
Movie
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1921
Exit the Vamp
Movie Mrs. Willy Strong
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1921
The Great Impersonation
Movie Princess Eiderstrom
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1921
Beyond
Movie Mrs. Langley
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1921
The Lost Romance
Movie Elizabeth Erskine
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1921
The Faith Healer
Movie Mary Beeler
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1920
Two Kinds of Love
Movie Sita
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1920
The Sins of Rosanne
Movie Rachel Bangat
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1920
A Prohibition Monkey
Movie
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1920
Human Stuff
Movie Boka
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1920
An Adventuress
Movie
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1919
The Woman Under Cover
Movie Yvonne Leclaire
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1919
The Man Beneath
Movie Countess Petite Florence
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1919
Boots
Movie Mme. De Valdee
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1918
Borrowed Clothes
Movie Rita Morris (as Fontine La Rue)
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1918
Cleopatsy
Movie Cleopatsy (as Dora Rogers)
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1918
Who Killed Walton?
Movie Elsa Armytage
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1918
Did She Do Wrong?
Movie
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1918
Wronged by Mistake
Movie
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1917
Cactus Nell
Movie The Gent's Accomplice
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1917
His Naughty Thought
Movie Babe Delores
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1915
Stolen Magic
Movie Secondary Supporting Role
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1915
Mabel Lost and Won
Movie Mabel's Rival
