
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.

as Elinor Shale

as Virginia Griswold
1919

as Mary Bancroft
1930

as Elinor Shale
1918

as Mary Hamilton
1918

as Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
1919

as Lady Katherine 'Kitty' Wyverne
1917

as Helen Tremaine
1919

as Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
1920

as Self
1922

as Mimsi
1921

as Jen Galbraith
1918

as Nora Helmer
1918
as Miriam
1922

as Mary Bancroft
1930

as Elaine Kent
1925

as Miriam
1922

as Self
1922

as Mimsi
1921

as Lisa Parsinova / Lizzie Parsons
1921

as Carlotta Peel
1921

as Julie le Breton / Lady Rose / Lady Maude
1920

as Nina Graham
1920

as Virginia Griswold
1919

as Nora Shard, aka Christine
1919

as Stella Derrick
1919

as Chichita / Madame Delano / Helene
1919

as Gloria Swann
1919

as Helen Tremaine
1919

as Fauvette
1919

as Mary Hamilton
1918
as Elsie
1918

as Jen Galbraith
1918

as Geraldine Seagrave
1918

as Nora Helmer
1918

as Elinor Shale
1918

as Lily Kardos
1918

as Rosamond English
1918