Книга: Hale Louise Closser «We Discover the Old Dominion»

We Discover the Old Dominion

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Hale, Louise Closser

▪ American actress and author
née  Louise Closser  
born Oct. 13, 1872, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
died July 26, 1933, Los Angeles, Calif.

      successful American character actress who was also the author of popular novels.

      Louise Closser studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston. She made her theatrical debut in 1894 in a Detroit, Michigan, production of In Old Kentucky. For several years she appeared in various minor roles. In 1899 she married Walter Hale, an actor and artist. In the 1903 Broadway season she was a hit in George Bernard Shaw's Candida. In April 1907 she made her London debut in her most popular role, that of Miss Hazy in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. She subsequently appeared in Blue Bird (1910), The Rainbow (1912–13), The Marriage of Columbine (1914), The Clever Ones (1915), His Bridal Night (1917), For the Defense (1919), Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon (1920), Zona Gale's Miss Lulu Bett (1920), Peer Gynt (1923), Rachel Crothers's Expressing Willie (1924), The Ivory Door (1927), and Paris (1928), among others. She became one of the most popular and respected character actresses on the American stage; meanwhile she pursued a second career as an author.

      Hale's first novel, A Motor Car Divorce, appeared in 1906 and was followed by The Actress (1909), The Married Miss Worth (1911), Her Soul and Her Body (1912), which was something of a sensation and was later made into a play, Home Talent (1926), and Canal Boat Fracas (1927). She also wrote several travel books illustrated by her husband: We Discover New England (1915), We Discover the Old Dominion (1916), and An American's London (1920).

      In 1929 Louise Hale left the stage for Hollywood. Among the films in which she was featured are The Hole in the Wall (1929), Paris (1929), Big Boy (1930), Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930), Devotion (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Letty Lynton (1932), The White Sister (1933), Another Language (1933), and Dinner at Eight (1933).

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Источник: Hale, Louise Closser

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