
Elsie Ferguson
Acting
🎂 1883-08-19
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.
Cast credits(25)

Helen Tremaine
1919

Gloria Swann
1919

Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
1919

Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne
1917

Carlotta Peel
1921

Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
1921

Self
1922

Stella Derrick
1919

Mary Bancroft
1930

Nora Helmer
1918

Mary Hamilton
1918

Elaine Kent
1925

Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
1920

Jenny Cushing
1917

Jen Galbraith
1918

Fauvette
1919

Mimsi
1921

Lily Kardos
1918

Elinor Shale
1918

Nora Shard, aka Christine
1919

Nina Graham
1920

Miriam
1922

Virginia Griswold
1919

Geraldine Seagrave
1918
Elsie
1918