Acting
Community Rating
7.2
TMDB estimate
Born
August 19, 1883
Died
November 5, 1961 (age 78)
Born in
New York City, New York, USA
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.

Scarlet Pages
as Mary Bancroft
1930

The Unknown Lover
as Elaine Kent
1925

Outcast
as Miriam
1922

A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922

Forever
as Mimsi
1921

Footlights
as Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
1921

Sacred and Profane Love
as Carlotta Peel
1921

Lady Rose's Daughter
as Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
1920

His House in Order
as Nina Graham
1920

Counterfeit
as Virginia Griswold
1919

A Society Exile
as Nora Shard, aka Christine
1919

The Witness for the Defense
as Stella Derrick
1919

The Avalanche
as Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
1919

Eyes of the Soul
as Gloria Swann
1919

The Marriage Price
as Helen Tremaine
1919

His Parisian Wife
as Fauvette
1919

Under the Greenwood Tree
as Mary Hamilton
1918
The Spirit That Wins
as Elsie
1918

Heart of the Wilds
as Jen Galbraith
1918

The Danger Mark
as Geraldine Seagrave
1918