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 (22
June 1902, Duluth, Minnesota - 10 March 1950, San Francisco,
California)
In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas
Fairbanks, Sr directed romantic comedy film Arizona.
De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast
by Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. to play opposite him in swashbuckling
adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three
Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his
wife, actress Mary Pickford. De La Motte would also appear opposite
such notable actors as Bela Lugosi, Milton Sills, Conrad Nagel, Owen
Moore, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert and Noah Beery, Sr.
Marguerite De La Motte's career as an actress slowed dramatically at
the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting
in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in
the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery, Sr. and Noah
Beery, Jr., as well as Lon Chaney, Jr.. |
