Elsie Ferguson

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.

  • Title: Elsie Ferguson
  • Popularity: 0.062
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1883-08-19
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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  • Also Known As: Elsie Louise Ferguson
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Elsie Ferguson Movies

  • 1930
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    Scarlet Pages

    Scarlet Pages

    6.5 1930 HD

    Nora Mason becomes entangled in a family mix-up of murder and scandal that threatens to ruin her career and entire future; Unless the mother she does...

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  • 1917
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    Barbary Sheep

    Barbary Sheep

    1 1917 HD

    Arriving with her husband in Arabia, Katherine Wyvrne is ready for romantic times in the exotic Middle East, but her aristocratic husband prefers to...

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  • 1918
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    Under the Greenwood Tree

    Under the Greenwood Tree

    1 1918 HD

    Acting on her love of nature and loathing of titled fortune hunters, heiress Mary Hamilton leaves home with her secretary, Peggy Ingledew, to join a...

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  • 1918
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    The Spirit That Wins

    The Spirit That Wins

    1 1918 HD

    Elsie gets a letter from her soldier boyfriend that convinces her to sign up as a Red Cross nurse.

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  • 1918
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    The Danger Mark

    The Danger Mark

    1 1918 HD

    Scott Seagrave and his sister Geraldine are left the family estate when their wealthy alcoholic father dies. Unfortunately, they've also inherited...

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  • 1918
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    The Lie

    The Lie

    1 1918 HD

    Elinor Shale's happiness at being engaged to Gerald Forster is interrupted by the arrival of her sister Lucy, who confesses that she will soon give...

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  • 1917
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    The Rise of Jenny Cushing

    The Rise of Jenny Cushing

    1 1917 HD

    A resourceful young girl struggles to free herself from slum life.

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  • 1918
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    Heart of the Wilds

    Heart of the Wilds

    1 1918 HD

    In the Canadian Northwest, Jen Galbraith lives in a tavern with her brother Val and her father Peter, a bootlegger who sells whiskey to the Indians....

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  • 1919
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    The Marriage Price

    The Marriage Price

    1 1919 HD

    A tough fellow from out West falls for young woman who is being pursued by a smarmy high-society type.

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  • 1919
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    His Parisian Wife

    His Parisian Wife

    1 1919 HD

    A beautiful young French girl falls in love with a handsome New Englander, but when they marry and return to his family home, she finds that she does...

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  • 1919
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    Eyes of the Soul

    Eyes of the Soul

    1 1919 HD

    Gloria Swann becomes a dancer at the Palm Garden cabaret, trying to secure a better future and accepts Judge Malvin's offer of marriage despite the...

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  • 1919
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    A Society Exile

    A Society Exile

    1 1919 HD

    Nora Shard, a young American girl living in England, is ostracized from society for her presumed part in a scandal which culminated in a...

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  • 1919
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    Counterfeit

    Counterfeit

    1 1919 HD

    In order to secretly replenish the family's failing fortunes, Virginia Griswold secures a position in the Secret Service to apprehend a group of...

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  • 1920
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    Lady Rose's Daughter

    Lady Rose's Daughter

    1 1920 HD

    Julie le Breton is the illegitimate daughter of Lady Rose, whose own background resembles that of her daughter. Julie is buffeted by the ill...

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  • 1920
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    His House in Order

    His House in Order

    1 1920 HD

    A woman attempts to regain the love of her husband, who constantly compares her unfavorably to his first wife.

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  • 1919
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    The Avalanche

    The Avalanche

    1 1919 HD

    A woman with a gambling addiction finds that her daughter is threatened by the same tendencies.

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  • 1921
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    Sacred and Profane Love

    Sacred and Profane Love

    1 1921 HD

    Carlotta Peel, who though sheltered from the facts of life by her Victorian aunt has acquired some knowledge from indiscriminate reading, meets Diaz,...

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  • 1925
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    The Unknown Lover

    The Unknown Lover

    1 1925 HD

    Elaine Kent weds Kenneth Billings, a young man who has a taste for wild living. She attempts to reform him and his exasperated father disinherits...

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  • 1922
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    A Trip to Paramountown

    A Trip to Paramountown

    6 1922 HD

    Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

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  • 1922
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    Outcast

    Outcast

    1 1922 HD

    A down-on-her luck streetwalker is ultimately redeemed by the love of a decent man.

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  • 1921
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    Forever

    Forever

    1 1921 HD

    Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his...

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  • 1921
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    Footlights

    Footlights

    1 1921 HD

    Exotic Russian actress Lisa Parsinova tires of her glamorous life on the New York stage and returns, under her actual identity as Lizzie Parsons, to...

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  • 1918
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    The Song of Songs

    The Song of Songs

    1 1918 HD

    When composer Anselm Kardos leaves his alcoholic wife, he gives his daughter Lily an unfinished love ode entitled "The Song of Songs" and warns her...

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  • 1919
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    The Witness for the Defense

    The Witness for the Defense

    6.3 1919 HD

    Stella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.

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  • 1918
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    A Doll's House

    A Doll's House

    1 1918 HD

    Differing considerably from Henrik Ibsen's classic play, the basic story of a woman who forges her father's name and comes to grief therefore is...

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