Marguerite de la Motte

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Marguerite De La Motte (around 1924, photograph by Fred Hartsook)

Marguerite De La Motte (born June 22, 1902 in Duluth , Minnesota , † March 10, 1950 in San Francisco , California ) was an American actress and dancer of the silent film era , who had the high point of her career in the 1920s. She gained fame above all as a multiple film partner of Douglas Fairbanks senior .

Life

Marguerite De La Motte took acting classes and graduated from the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing in 1917 . She then took ballet lessons from Anna Pavlovna Pavlova . In 1919 De La Motte made her stage debut as a dancer in Sid Grauman's theater . She played her first film role a year earlier in the drama Arizona on the side of Douglas Fairbanks senior.

In the following years, Marguerite De La Motte established herself as a successful film actress in a variety of leading and supporting roles, including several times with Douglas Fairbanks. So she was seen in 1920 as Lolita Pulido in The Sign of Zorro and in 1921 as Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers . Another collaboration of the actors, who are also friends in private life, came about in 1929 with The Iron Mask .

With the end of the silent film era, De La Motte's career also declined from 1930. Nevertheless, she still worked as a supporting actress in films until 1942, before she retired into private life in 1942 at the age of 40.

Marguerite De La Motte was married twice. Her first marriage to actor John Bowers was in 1924 and lasted until his suicide in 1936. At the time of his death, the couple were already living apart. De La Motte's second marriage to lawyer Sidney H. Rivkin ended in divorce after four years.

After her film career ended, De La Motte moved to San Francisco and worked there in an office of the Red Cross . She died of a thrombus on March 10, 1950 at the age of 47 . The actress urn is kept in the Columbarium at Olivet Memorial Park in San Mateo County .

In 1960 Marguerite De La Motte was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Boulevard.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1918: Arizona
  • 1919: Josselyn's Wife
  • 1919: For A Woman's Honor
  • 1919: In Wrong
  • 1920: The Hope
  • 1920: The Sagebrusher
  • 1920: The Mark of Zorro (The Mark of Zorro)
  • 1921: The Nut
  • 1921: The Three Musketeers (The Three Musketeers)
  • 1922: Shadows
  • 1923: Scars of Jealousy
  • 1923: A Man of Action
  • 1923: Desire
  • 1923: Richard the Lion-Hearted
  • 1924: In Love with Love
  • 1925: Cheaper to Marry
  • 1925: Daughters Who Pay
  • 1925: Flattery
  • 1925: Off the Highway
  • 1925: The People vs. Nancy Preston
  • 1926: Fifth Avenue
  • 1926: Pals in Paradise
  • 1929: The Iron Mask (The Iron Mask)
  • 1930: Shadow Ranch
  • 1934: A Woman's Man
  • 1941: Reg'lar Fellers
  • 1942: The Man Who Returned to Life
  • 1942: Overland Mail

Web links

Commons : Marguerite De La Motte  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marguerite de La Motte. In: Find a Grave . May 2, 1999, accessed April 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Marguerite de la Motte. In: Hollywood Walk of Fame . Retrieved April 19, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME De La Motte, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Duluth , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1950
Place of death San Francisco , California