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| Laura
La Plante
1904 - 1996 |
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. The actress Laura La Plante began her film career at the age of 15 with the movie "The Great Gamble" (19). At the beginning of the 20'0s followed the movies "Big Town Ideas" (21), "Play Square" (21), "Big Town Round-up" (21) with Tom Mix, "Old Dynamite" (21), "Brand of Courage" (21), "Easy to Cop" (22), "Desperation" (22) and "Dead Game" (23). Laura La Plante became a demanded leading actress at Universal from 1923 and she could prove her talent in dramas and comedies. Her well-known silent movies are "Crooked Alley" (23), "Sporting Youth" (24), "The Dangerous Blonde" (24), "Smouldering Fires" (25), "Skinner's Dress Suit" (26), "The Cat and the Canary" (27) and "Finders Keepers" (28). She only took part in few more movies in the sound film era like "Show Boat" (29), "Lonely Wives" (31), "The Sea Ghost" (31), "The Girl in Possession" (34) and "Man of the Moment" (35) - most of these talkies were shot in England when she took up residence in London with her second husband Irving Asher. After that she disappeared from the screen for eleven years and returned in 1946 with the movie "Little Mister Jim", it took again eleven years till she appeared in her last movie "Spring Reunion" (57). Laura La Plante was married in first marriage with director William
A. Seiter.
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