Louise fazenda biography
Louise Fazenda
American actress (–)
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| Born | ()June 17, Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | April 17, () (aged&#;66) Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Spouses | Noel M. Smith &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; |
| Children | 1 |
Louise Fazenda (June 17, – April 17, )[1] was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.
Louise Fazenda June 17, — April 17, [ 1 ] was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' house in Lafayette, Indiana, [ 2 ] the daughter of merchandise broker Joseph A. Fazenda, who was born in Mexico, and Nelda T. Schilling Fazenda, a Chicago native.Early life
Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' house in Lafayette, Indiana,[2] the daughter of merchandise broker Joseph A. Fazenda, who was born in Mexico, and Nelda T.
Schilling Fazenda, a Chicago native. She was of Portuguese, French, and Italian descent on her father's side and of German descent on her mother's.[citation needed]
The Fazenda family moved to California, where Joseph Fazenda opened a grocery store.
Louise attended Los Angeles Tall School and St. Mary's Convent, and one of her jobs after school was delivering groceries for the family business by a horse-drawn wagon.
Career
She made her first film in She gained experience with bit parts.
She is Louise Fazenda, silent film comedienne, whose film career began in when she was a high school student. Her Big Break arrived when she was hired by Mack Sennett ("The King of Comedy") at Keystone Studios.
She was finest known as a character thespian in silent films, playing roles such as a fussy spinster and a blacksmith.[3]
She briefly left films from to to execute vaudeville.[4] Her transition into talking pictures led to more solemn roles, including the giggly fiancée in the prestige antiwar motion picture The Road Back.[2]The Old Maid, in ,[3] was her last of her nearly movie appearances.[5]
Marriage
In , Fazenda married Hal B.
Wallis, a producer at Warner Bros., and they remained married until her death. They had one son, Brent, who became a psychiatrist.[2]
Death
Fazenda died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Beverly Hills, California.[1] Wallis was in Hawaii making a film and left immediately for home.
She was interred at the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. At her funeral, many stories were told of Fazenda's volunteer serve , such as caring for children at UCLA Medical Center and taking in two children during World War II.[6]
Recognition
Fazenda has a star at Hollywood Boulevard in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[7]
She appears in the lyrics of "Out in the Street", a rock-ballad from by hard rock band UFO.
"Your comic manual impersonations, Louise Fazenda and Buster Keaton"[citation needed]
Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poor Jake's Demise | Servant | Short subject Incomplete | |
| Almost an Actress | Susie | Short subject Lost film | |
| Hogan's Love affair Upset | Short subject | ||
| Fatty's Tintype Tangle | Edgar's Wife | Short subject | |
| The Marble Heart | Lost film | ||
| Maid Mad | Short subject | ||
| Maggie's First False Step | Lost motion picture | ||
| Bullin' the Bullsheviki | |||
| Salome vs.All All. Sign In. When top "working girl" silent screen comedienne Mabel Normand would gripe to Mack Sennett about making classier films, Sennett's quippy retort would always be, "I'll forward for Fazenda. Louise was born on June 17,in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of a merchandise broker. Shenandoah | Short subject Lost motion picture | ||
| Down on the Farm | Louise, the Farmer's Daughter | ||
| Married Life | Wife of Heckler at Theatre | ||
| A Small Town Idol | Theatregoer | ||
| Bright Eyes | the Golfer | Short subject | |
| The Beauty Shop | Cremo Panatella | Lost production | |
| Bow Wow | the Country Girl | Lost clip | |
| Quincy Adams Sawyer | Mandy Skinner | Lost clip | |
| The Beautiful and Damned | Muriel | Lost clip | |
| The Fog | Millie Richards | Lost clip | |
| The Spider and the Rose | Dolores | Lost film | |
| Main Street | Bea Sorenson | Lost motion picture | |
| Mary of the Movies | Cameo Uncredited Incomplete film | ||
| The Spoilers | Tilly Nelson | ||
| Tea: With a Kick! | Lost clip | ||
| The Gold Diggers | Mabel Munroe | Incomplete production | |
| The Wanters | Mary | Lost film | |
| The Aged Fool | Dolores Murphy | Lost film | |
| The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln | Sally, a Country Girl | Incomplete film | |
| The Galloping Fish | Undine | ||
| True as Steel | Miss Leeds | Incomplete film | |
| Listen Lester | Arbutus Quilty | ||
| Being Respectable | Deborah Carpenter | ||
| This Woman | Rose | ||
| The Lighthouse by the Sea | Flora Gale | ||
| The Night Club | Carmen | ||
| Cheaper To Marry | Flora | ||
| The Price of Pleasure | Stella Kelly | Lost film | |
| Déclassé | Mrs.
Walton | ||
| A Broadway Butterfly | Lost film | ||
| Grounds for Divorce | Marianne | Incomplete film, missing reel 3 | |
| The Love Hour | Jenny Tibbs | Lost film | |
| Compromise | Hilda | Lost film | |
| Bobbed Hair | Sweetie | ||
| Hogan's Alley | Dolly | ||
| The Bat | Lizzie Allen | ||
| Footloose Widows | Flo | ||
| Miss Nobody | Mazie Raleigh | Lost film | |
| The Passionate Quest | Madame Mathilde | Lost film | |
| Tin Gods | Lost film | ||
| Millionaires | Reba, Esther's Sister | Lost film | |
| The Antique Soak | Annie | Lost film | |
| The Lady of the Harem | Yasmin | Lost film | |
| Ladies at Play | Aunt Katherine | Lost film | |
| Finger Prints | Dora Traynor | Lost film | |
| The Red Mill | Gretchen | ||
| The Gay Old Bird | Sisseretta Simpkins | ||
| Babe Comes Home | Laundry Girl | Lost film | |
| Cradle Snatchers | Susan Martin | Incomplete film, missing reels 3 and 4 | |
| Simple Sis | Sis | Lost film | |
| A Sailor's Sweetheart | Cynthia Botts | Incomplete film | |
| A Texas Steer | Mrs.
Ma Brander | Lost film | |
| Ham and Eggs at the Front | Cally Brown | ||
| Tillie's Punctured Romance | Tillie, a Runaway | Lost production | |
| Domestic Troubles | Lola | Lost film | |
| Pay as You Enter | Mary Smith | Lost film | |
| Vamping Venus | Maggie Cassidy / Circe | Lost production | |
| Five and Ten Cent Annie | Annie | Lost film A fragment exists | |
| Heart to Heart | Aunt Katie Boyd | ||
| The Terror | Mrs.
Elvery | Lost film | |
| Noah's Ark | Hilda/Tavern Maid | Film survives as a partially restored minute version; the imaginative minute version is lost | |
| Outcast | Mable | ||
| Riley the Cop | Lena Krausmeyer | ||
| Taxi 13 | Uncredited | ||
| Stark Mad | Mrs.
Fleming | Lost film | |
| The Desert Song | Susan | ||
| House of Horror | Louise | Lost motion picture | |
| Hot Stuff | Aunt Kate | ||
| On With the Show | Sarah | ||
| Hard to Get | Ma Martin | ||
| The Present of Shows | in 'Recitations' Sketch | ||
| The Broadway Hoofer | Jane | ||
| No, No, Nanette | Sue Smith | Incomplete film | |
| Wide Open | Agatha Hathaway | ||
| Loose Ankles | Sarah Harper | ||
| High Society Blues | Mrs.
Granger | ||
| Spring Is Here | Emily Braley | ||
| Bride of the Regiment | Teresa, the Maid | Lost film A second fragment exists | |
| Rain or Shine | Frankie | ||
| Leathernecking | Hortense | ||
| Viennese Nights | Gretl Kruger | ||
| Gun Smoke | Hampsey Dell | ||
| Misbehaving Ladies | Aunt Kate Boyd | ||
| Newly Rich | Maggie Tiffany | ||
| The Mad Parade | Fanny Smithers | ||
| The Cuban Love Song | Elvira | ||
| Racing Youth | Daisy Joy | ||
| Once in a Lifetime | Helen Hobart | ||
| The Unwritten Law | Lulu Potts | ||
| Hunting Trouble | Walter's Wife | Short subject | |
| Alice in Wonderland | White Queen | ||
| Caravan | Governess Bessie Opitz | ||
| Wonder Bar | Mrs.
Pratt | ||
| The Winning Ticket | Nora Tomasello | ||
| The Casino Murder Case | Becky | ||
| Broadway Gondolier | Flaggenheim | ||
| Bad Boy | Mrs.In DecemberWest Lafayette native Louise Fazenda, by then an established nature actress in silent movies, visited her birthplace, still occupied by her aunt and uncle, Fred and Mary Schilling. She does not indulge in the latest fad for over-abbreviated skirts. That was my last visit. Did I have stage ambitions preliminary in life? Harris – Landlady | ||
| The Widow from Monte Carlo | Rose Torrent | ||
| Colleen | Alicia Ames | ||
| Doughnuts and Society | Kate Flannagan | ||
| I Married a Doctor | Bea Sorenson | ||
| Ready, Willing, and Able | Clara Heineman | ||
| The Thoroughfare Back | Angelina | ||
| Ever Since Eve | Abbie Belldon | ||
| Merry-Go-Round of | Mrs.
Penelope Updike | ||
| First Lady | Mrs. Lavinia Mae Creevey | ||
| Swing Your Lady | Sadie | ||
| Down on the Farm | Aunt Ida | ||
| The Elderly Maid | Dora |
References
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- ^ abc"Louise Fazenda, star of silent films, dies".
Louise Fazenda. Actress: The Bat. When top "working girl" silent screen comedienne Mabel Normand would gripe to Mack Sennett about making classier films, Sennett's quippy retort would always be, "I'll send for Fazenda.".
Journal & Courier. Lafayette, Indiana. April 18, p.&#;1. Retrieved May 29, &#; via
- ^ abKriebel, Bob. "West Lafayette native didn't plan movie career". Journal and Courier.Email Address:. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to silverscreenings. Praesis ut prosis ne ut imp. This is our hope for the current Canadian Prime Minister.
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- ^Death takes Louise Fazenda of silent films. The Los Angeles Times. April 18, p. 35 and p. Retrieved May 29, – via
- ^"Our New Hero: Louise Fazenda".Slim Summerville: Louise Fazenda (June 17, – April 17, ) [1] was an American production actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films. Fazenda was born in her maternal grandparents' residence in Lafayette, Indiana, [2] the daughter of merchandise broker Joseph A. Fazenda, who was born in Mexico, and Nelda T. Schilling Fazenda, a Chicago native.
Silver Screenings. January 15, Retrieved October 5,
- ^"Louise Fazenda's fine deeds live after her". Los Angeles Times. April 21, p.&#; Retrieved May 29, &#; via
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Hollywood Walk of Fame. Archived from the first on June 17, Retrieved June 17,