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Elsie Ferguson‌

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Elsie Ferguson

New York City, New York, USA

Elsie Ferguson

New York City, New York, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1883-08-19

Popularity

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Biography

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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Scarlet Pages

Scarlet Pages‌
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calendar 1930

Under the Greenwood Tree

Under the Greenwood Tree‌
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calendar 1918

Barbary Sheep

Barbary Sheep‌
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calendar 1917

The Rise of Jenny Cushing

The Rise of Jenny Cushing‌
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calendar 1917

The Lie

The Lie‌
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calendar 1918

The Danger Mark

The Danger Mark‌
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calendar 1918

Heart of the Wilds

Heart of the Wilds‌
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calendar 1918

The Spirit That Wins

The Spirit That Wins‌
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calendar 1918

His Parisian Wife

His Parisian Wife‌
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calendar 1919

The Marriage Price

The Marriage Price‌
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calendar 1919

Eyes of the Soul

Eyes of the Soul‌
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calendar 1919

The Avalanche

The Avalanche‌
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calendar 1919

A Society Exile

A Society Exile‌
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calendar 1919

Counterfeit

Counterfeit‌
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calendar 1919

His House in Order

His House in Order‌
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calendar 1920

Lady Rose's Daughter

Lady Rose's Daughter‌
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calendar 1920

Sacred and Profane Love

Sacred and Profane Love‌
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calendar 1921

The Unknown Lover

The Unknown Lover‌
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calendar 1925

A Trip to Paramountown

A Trip to Paramountown‌
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calendar 1922

Outcast

Outcast‌
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calendar 1922

Forever

Forever‌
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calendar 1921

Footlights

Footlights‌
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calendar 1921

The Song of Songs

The Song of Songs‌
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calendar 1918

The Witness for the Defense

The Witness for the Defense‌
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calendar 1919

A Doll's House

A Doll's House‌
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calendar 1918

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