Marguerite De La Motte

Marguerite De La Motte

Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing. De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother. De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford. Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr. After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office. On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.

  • Title: Marguerite De La Motte
  • Popularity: 1.263
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1902-06-22
  • Place of Birth: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
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  • Also Known As: Peggy De La Motte, Marguerite Beatrice De La Motte
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Marguerite De La Motte Movies

  • 1920
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    The Broken Gate

    The Broken Gate

    1 1920 HD

    Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from...

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  • 1919
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    Josselyn's Wife

    Josselyn's Wife

    1 1919 HD

    Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have spent several years in Europe while Gibbs, an...

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  • 1920
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    The Mark of Zorro

    The Mark of Zorro

    7.2 1920 HD

    Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

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  • 1922
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    Shadows

    Shadows

    6.1 1922 HD

    Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin...

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  • 1924
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    The Beloved Brute

    The Beloved Brute

    1 1924 HD

    A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a side-show wrestling match.

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  • 1919
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    A Sage Brush Hamlet

    A Sage Brush Hamlet

    1 1919 HD

    Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is why he is known as a sagebrush Hamlet.

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  • 1921
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.4 1921 HD

    The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most...

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  • 1929
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    The Iron Mask

    The Iron Mask

    6.679 1929 HD

    King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees...

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  • 1920
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    The U.P. Trail

    The U.P. Trail

    1 1920 HD

    Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an Indian massacre. Falling in love after nursing her...

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  • 1922
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    Shattered Idols

    Shattered Idols

    1 1922 HD

    This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at least one title change before reaching the screen as...

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  • 1934
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    A Woman's Man

    A Woman's Man

    4 1934 HD

    A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling with an ambitious, publicity-hungry prizefighter.

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  • 1919
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    The Pagan God

    The Pagan God

    1 1919 HD

    Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actually a secret United States government operative...

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  • 1929
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    Montmartre Rose

    Montmartre Rose

    1 1929 HD

    A respectable Paris jeweller becomes engaged to a celebrated performer of the Montmartre cafes.

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  • 1927
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    The Final Extra

    The Final Extra

    1 1927 HD

    The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-stage atmosphere of the theatre, set against the...

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  • 1923
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    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    The Famous Mrs. Fair

    1 1923 HD

    A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..

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    The Sagebrusher

    The Sagebrusher

    1 1920 HD

    A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.

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  • 1942
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    The Man Who Returned to Life

    The Man Who Returned to Life

    6 1942 HD

    An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.

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  • 1930
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    Shadow Ranch

    Shadow Ranch

    6 1930 HD

    Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been ambushed and murdered. Sim learns ranch owner Ruth...

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  • 1923
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    A Man of Action

    A Man of Action

    1 1923 HD

    Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth tells his estate...

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  • 1924
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    Those Who Dare

    Those Who Dare

    1 1924 HD

    Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town's harbor because of a superstition connected...

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  • 1941
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    Reg'lar Fellers

    Reg'lar Fellers

    4.3 1941 HD

    Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and...

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  • 1919
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    In Wrong

    In Wrong

    5 1919 HD

    Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't get her to look his way. Things get even worse...

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  • 1926
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    The Unknown Soldier

    The Unknown Soldier

    1 1926 HD

    The Unknown Soldier is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Renaud Hoffman and written by Richard Schayer and James J. Tynan. The film stars...

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  • 1942
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    Overland Mail

    Overland Mail

    1 1942 HD

    Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are...

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  • 1920
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    The Hope

    The Hope

    1 1920 HD

    An upper class melodrama.

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  • 1923
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    Wandering Daughters

    Wandering Daughters

    1 1923 HD

    The daughter of straitlaced parents, Bessie Bowden is attracted to the social life of the fast set and finds Austin Trull, lounge lizard and sometime...

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  • 1926
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    Red Dice

    Red Dice

    1 1926 HD

    This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Alan Beckwith (Rod La Rocque) is a war hero who is...

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  • 1926
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    Pals in Paradise

    Pals in Paradise

    6 1926 HD

    Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left her by her father. Bill tells her that the death...

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  • 1924
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    The Clean Heart

    The Clean Heart

    1 1924 HD

    The Clean Heart (1924)

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  • 1925
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    The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

    The Girl Who Wouldn't Work

    1 1925 HD

    Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts with him and is fired. Because she is mad at her...

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  • 1925
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    Children of the Whirlwind

    Children of the Whirlwind

    1 1925 HD

    A recent parolee tries to go straight with the help of a friendly artist, but his old gang, his sweetheart, and a crooked cop make it difficult for...

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  • 1926
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    Fifth Avenue

    Fifth Avenue

    1 1926 HD

    When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find work as a fashion designer, staying with Mrs....

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  • 1925
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    Daughters Who Pay

    Daughters Who Pay

    1 1925 HD

    Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the Government of the United States. Serge Oumansky is a...

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  • 1923
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    Scars of Jealousy

    Scars of Jealousy

    1 1923 HD

    Scars of Jealousy is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Lloyd Hughes and Frank Keenan. It was produced by...

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  • 1925
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    Cheaper to Marry

    Cheaper to Marry

    1 1925 HD

    Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partner, Jim Tyler, than it's cheaper to be married...

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  • 1923
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    Richard the Lion-Hearted

    Richard the Lion-Hearted

    1 1923 HD

    Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.

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  • 1920
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    Trumpet Island

    Trumpet Island

    5 1920 HD

    Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry another man. But fate still has more in store.

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  • 1921
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    The Nut

    The Nut

    5.9 1921 HD

    Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.

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  • 1923
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    What a Wife Learned

    What a Wife Learned

    1 1923 HD

    A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.

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