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Elsie Ferguson (born August 19, 1883; died November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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Early life
Born Elsie Louise Ferguson in New York City, she was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney. Raised and educated in Manhattan, she became interested in the theater at a young age and made her stage debut at seventeen as a chorus girl in a musical comedy. By 1909, she was a major Broadway star. In 1910 she spent time on the stage in London. New York, NY redirects here. ...
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During World War I, a number of Broadway stars organized a campaign to sell Liberty Bonds from the theatre stage prior to the performance as well as at highly publicized appearances at places such as the New York Public Library. Ferguson, noted for her great beauty and as one of the "Park Avenue aristocrats," on one occasion is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of bonds in less than an hour. Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nikolay II Aleksey Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert H. Asquith D. Lloyd George Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna...
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Stardom At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered her a contract but she declined them all until the 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". Producer and director Adolph Zukor then signed her to an eighteen film, 3 year, $5,000.00 per week contract. [1] A movie studio is a location, room, building, or group of buildings and/or sound stages, offices and storage facilities, which may include a backlot, where movies are made. ...
Maurice Tourneur, born February 2, 1873 – died August 4, 1961, was an important international film director and screenwriter. ...
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Cukor Adolf (Adolph Zukor) (January 7, 1873–June 10, 1976) was the founder of Paramount Pictures Studios, and one of the greatest film moguls of all time. ...
Following this first film, Elsie Ferguson was highly billed in promotional campaigns, [2] and starred in two more films directed by Tourneur under a lucrative contract from Paramount Pictures that paid her $1,000 per day of filming, in addition to her weekly contract income. Her most noted role was in Witness for the Defense (1919). [3] Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...
Continuing to play roles of elegant society women, Ferguson was quickly dubbed "The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen." But the aristocratic label was also because she was known as a difficult and sometimes arrogant personality to work with. Many of the films she agreed to do were because they were adaptations of stage plays with which she was familiar.
Elsie Ferguson eventually followed the move west and bought a home in the hills of Hollywood, California. In 1920, she traveled to the Middle East and Europe. She fell in love with Paris and the French Riviera and within a few years bought a permanent home there. Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
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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. It is considered her best work in film. Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ...
"Talkies" and Retirement In 1925 she made one film only before returning to the Broadway stage. In 1930 she made her first talkie that would also be her final film, titled Scarlett Pages, which is now preserved in the Library of Congress. [4] 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. A sound film (or talkie) is a motion picture with synchronized sound, as opposed to a silent movie. ...
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Despite her wealth and fame and glamorous lifestyle, Elsie Ferguson's personal life had more than its share of turmoil. Well known behind the scenes as difficult to work with, temperamental, and argumentative, she married four times. Following her final marriage at age 51 she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ...
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Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 60 that met with critical acclaim. She played in Outrageous Fortune, a play written by her neighbor Rose Franken. The play closed eight weeks after it opened. Critics hailed Ferguson's performance as glowing and having the charm and winning manner of old.
A very wealthy woman with no heirs, and a lover of animals, on her passing in 1961 she left a large part of her considerable estate to a variety of charities including several for animal welfare.
Elsie Ferguson died in Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut in 1961. She lived on an estate called White Gate Farms. She was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Nickname: The Whaling City Motto: MARE LIBERUM Coordinates: NECTA Norwich-New London Region Southeastern Connecticut Settled 1646 (Pequot Plantation) Named 1658 (New London) Incorporated (city) 1784 Government - Type Council-manager - City council Margaret Mary Curtin, Mayor Kevin J. Cavanagh, Dep. ...
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Reference - New York Times, Elsie Ferguson Is Dead at 76; Former Stage and Screen Star, November 16, 1961, Page 39.
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