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Elsie Ferguson
Acting

Elsie Ferguson
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1883-08-19,New York City, New York, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

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Scarlet Pages
1930-09-27

Under the Greenwood Tree

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Under the Greenwood Tree
1918-12-08

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Barbary Sheep
1917-09-09

The Rise of Jenny Cushing

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The Rise of Jenny Cushing
1917-11-11

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The Lie
1918-04-08

Heart of the Wilds

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Heart of the Wilds
1918-09-01

The Danger Mark

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The Danger Mark
1918-07-07

The Spirit That Wins

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The Spirit That Wins
1918-10-01

His Parisian Wife

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His Parisian Wife
1919-01-19

The Marriage Price

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The Marriage Price
1919-03-09

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Counterfeit
1919-11-30

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The Avalanche
1919-06-29

Eyes of the Soul

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Eyes of the Soul
1919-04-20

A Society Exile

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A Society Exile
1919-10-07

His House in Order

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His House in Order
1920-03-07

Lady Rose's Daughter

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Lady Rose's Daughter
1920-08-29

The Unknown Lover

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The Unknown Lover
1925-10-30

Sacred and Profane Love

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Sacred and Profane Love
1921-05-22

A Trip to Paramountown

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A Trip to Paramountown
1922-07-10

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Outcast
1922-12-07

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Forever
1921-10-16

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Footlights
1921-10-02

The Song of Songs

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The Song of Songs
1918-02-18

The Witness for the Defense

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The Witness for the Defense
1919-09-14

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A Doll's House
1918-06-09