Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Ferguson
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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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
25
Gender
Female
Birthday
1883-08-19 (142 years old)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Acting

1930

Scarlet Pages as Mary Bancroft

1925

The Unknown Lover as Elaine Kent

1922

Outcast as Miriam

1921

Forever as Mimsi

1921

Sacred and Profane Love as Carlotta Peel

1921

Footlights as Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons

1920

Lady Rose's Daughter as Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude

1920

His House in Order as Nina Graham

1919

His Parisian Wife as Fauvette

1919

Counterfeit as Virginia Griswold

1919

The Avalanche as Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene

1919

A Society Exile as Nora Shard, aka Christine

1919

Eyes of the Soul as Gloria Swann

1919

The Marriage Price as Helen Tremaine

1919

The Witness for the Defense as Stella Derrick

1918

The Lie as Elinor Shale

1918

The Danger Mark as Geraldine Seagrave

1918

The Song of Songs as Lily Kardos

1918

The Spirit That Wins as Elsie

1918

Under the Greenwood Tree as Mary Hamilton

1918

A Doll's House as Nora Helmer

1918

Heart of the Wilds as Jen Galbraith

1917

Barbary Sheep as Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne

1917

The Rise of Jenny Cushing as Jenny Cushing