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.
Acting
Movie
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
Movie
The Witness for the Defense
as Stella Derrick
1919
Movie
Scarlet Pages
as Mary Bancroft
1930
Movie
His House in Order
as Nina Graham
1920
Movie
Outcast
as Miriam
1922
Movie
The Song of Songs
as Lily Kardos
1918
Movie
The Spirit That Wins
as Elsie
1918
Movie
His Parisian Wife
as Fauvette
1919
Movie
The Marriage Price
as Helen Tremaine
1919
Movie
Counterfeit
as Virginia Griswold
1919
Movie
Eyes of the Soul
as Gloria Swann
1919
Movie
A Society Exile
as Nora Shard, aka Christine
1919
Movie
Lady Rose's Daughter
as Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
1920
Movie
The Unknown Lover
as Elaine Kent
1925
Movie
Sacred and Profane Love
as Carlotta Peel
1921
Movie
Forever
as Mimsi
1921
Movie
Footlights
as Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
1921
Movie
Under the Greenwood Tree
as Mary Hamilton
1918
Movie
Barbary Sheep
as Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne
1917
Movie
The Rise of Jenny Cushing
as Jenny Cushing
1917
Movie
The Lie
as Elinor Shale
1918
Movie
Heart of the Wilds
as Jen Galbraith
1918
Movie
The Danger Mark
as Geraldine Seagrave
1918
Movie
The Avalanche
as Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
1919