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person_profile-Elsie Ferguson

Elsie Ferguson Died at age: 78

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Elsie Ferguson

Date of Birth:

Aug 19, 1883

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 05, 1961

Biography of

Elsie Ferguson

    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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Elsie Ferguson

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Filmography of

Elsie Ferguson

Found 21 Movies in total

Scarlet Pages

Mary Bancroft ( Actor )

... 1930

Outcast

Miriam ( Actor )

... 1922

Footlights

Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons ( Actor )

... 1921

Sacred and Profane Love

Carlotta Peel ( Actor )

... 1921

Lady Rose's Daughter

Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude ( Actor )

... 1920

His House in Order

Nina Graham ( Actor )

... 1920

Counterfeit

Virginia Griswold ( Actor )

... 1919

A Society Exile

Nora Shard, aka Christine ( Actor )

... 1919

The Witness for the Defense

Stella Derrick ( Actor )

... 1919

The Avalanche

Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene ( Actor )

... 1919

Eyes of the Soul

Gloria Swann ( Actor )

... 1919

The Marriage Price

Helen Tremaine ( Actor )

... 1919

His Parisian Wife

Fauvette ( Actor )

... 1919

Under the Greenwood Tree

Mary Hamilton ( Actor )

... 1918

Heart of the Wilds

Jen Galbraith ( Actor )

... 1918

The Danger Mark

Geraldine Seagrave ( Actor )

... 1918

A Doll's House

Nora Helmer ( Actor )

... 1918

The Lie

Elinor Shale ( Actor )

... 1918

The Song of Songs

Lily Kardos ( Actor )

... 1918

The Rise of Jenny Cushing

Jenny Cushing ( Actor )

... 1917

Barbary Sheep

Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne ( Actor )

... 1917