1. Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.
11 Facts About Elsie Ferguson
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On one occasion, Ferguson is reputed to have sold $85,000 worth of bonds in less than an hour.
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Elsie Ferguson may have consented to films because she no longer had the protection of her Broadway employers Henry B Harris, who died on the Titanic in 1912, and Charles Frohman, who perished on the Lusitania in 1915.
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Elsie Ferguson's only surviving complete silent film is The Witness for the Defense, co-starring Warner Oland and performed as a play in 1911 by her friend Ethel Barrymore.
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Elsie Ferguson eventually followed the move west and bought a home in the hills of Hollywood, California.
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Elsie Ferguson fell in love with Paris and the French Riviera, and within a few years, she bought a permanent home there.
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Elsie Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943, at the age of 60, that met with critical acclaim.
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Elsie Ferguson played in Outrageous Fortune, a play written by her neighbor Rose Franken.
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Elsie Ferguson died in Lawrence Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut, in 1961.
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Elsie Ferguson lived on an estate called White Gate Farms.
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Elsie Ferguson was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut.