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Elsie Ferguson 08/19/1883 , (141 years old) in New York City, New York, USA

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Acting

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.

poster A Trip to Paramountown (1922)

Self

poster Outcast (1922)

Miriam

poster The Song of Songs (1918)

Lily Kardos

poster Sacred and Profane Love (1921)

Carlotta Peel

poster Scarlet Pages (1930)

Mary Bancroft

poster His House in Order (1920)

Nina Graham

poster The Witness for the Defense (1919)

Stella Derrick

poster Barbary Sheep (1917)

Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne

poster Eyes of the Soul (1919)

Gloria Swann

poster The Avalanche (1919)

Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene

poster Heart of the Wilds (1918)

Jen Galbraith

poster A Society Exile (1919)

Nora Shard, aka Christine

poster Forever (1921)

Mimsi

poster The Lie (1918)

Elinor Shale

poster The Rise of Jenny Cushing (1917)

Jenny Cushing

poster The Marriage Price (1919)

Helen Tremaine

poster Lady Rose's Daughter (1920)

Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude

poster Counterfeit (1919)

Virginia Griswold

poster The Unknown Lover (1925)

Elaine Kent

poster The Danger Mark (1918)

Geraldine Seagrave

poster A Doll's House (1918)

Nora Helmer

poster His Parisian Wife (1919)

Fauvette

poster Under the Greenwood Tree (1918)

Mary Hamilton

poster Footlights (1921)

Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons

poster The Spirit That Wins (1918)

Elsie

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