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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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Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q508144
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Filmography (Movies)
Scarlet Pages
Character:Mary Bancroft
Release Date:27/09/1930
The Unknown Lover
Character:Elaine Kent
Release Date:30/10/1925
Outcast
Character:Miriam
Release Date:07/12/1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Character:Self
Release Date:10/07/1922
Forever
Character:Mimsi
Release Date:16/10/1921
Footlights
Character:Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
Release Date:02/10/1921
Sacred and Profane Love
Character:Carlotta Peel
Release Date:22/05/1921
Lady Rose's Daughter
Character:Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
Release Date:29/08/1920
His House in Order
Character:Nina Graham
Release Date:07/03/1920
Counterfeit
Character:Virginia Griswold
Release Date:30/11/1919
A Society Exile
Character:Nora Shard, aka Christine
Release Date:07/10/1919
The Witness for the Defense
Character:Stella Derrick
Release Date:14/09/1919
The Avalanche
Character:Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
Release Date:29/06/1919
Eyes of the Soul
Character:Gloria Swann
Release Date:20/04/1919
The Marriage Price
Character:Helen Tremaine
Release Date:09/03/1919
His Parisian Wife
Character:Fauvette
Release Date:19/01/1919
Under the Greenwood Tree
Character:Mary Hamilton
Release Date:08/12/1918
The Spirit That Wins
Character:Elsie
Release Date:01/10/1918
Heart of the Wilds
Character:Jen Galbraith
Release Date:01/09/1918
The Danger Mark
Character:Geraldine Seagrave
Release Date:07/07/1918
A Doll's House
Character:Nora Helmer
Release Date:09/06/1918
The Lie
Character:Elinor Shale
Release Date:08/04/1918
The Song of Songs
Character:Lily Kardos
Release Date:18/02/1918
Rose of the World
Character:Rosamond English
Release Date:07/01/1918
The Rise of Jenny Cushing
Character:Jenny Cushing
Release Date:11/11/1917
Barbary Sheep
Character:Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne
Release Date:09/09/1917
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