1. Lenore Ulric had four sisters, Isabel, Francis, Alma, and Florence, and a brother, Roy Richard.
19 Facts About Lenore Ulric
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Lenore Ulric played with stock companies in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois.
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Lenore Ulric worked briefly as a film actress for Essanay Studios and joined another stock company in Schenectady, New York.
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Lenore Ulric found work in The First Man, A Polished Burglar, Kilmeny, and The Better Woman.
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Lenore Ulric was discovered by theatrical producer David Belasco, who went to see her in The Bird of Paradise in 1913 after Lenore Ulric wrote to him requesting that he see her on stage.
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Lenore Ulric watched her perform while he sat incognito in one of the theater's seats.
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Under Belasco's management during most of her stage career, Lenore Ulric played a variety of female roles.
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Lenore Ulric's temperament is intense, her nature passionate, her style direct and simple.
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Lenore Ulric's acting reveals force of character, experience, observation, thought, sensibility, ardor, definite purpose, and unusual command of the mechanics of art.
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Lenore Ulric acted in numerous plays at the Belasco Theater, all under the direction of Belasco.
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Lenore Ulric played in The Son-Daughter, a play about China by Belasco and George Scarborough, which ran for 223 performances.
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Lenore Ulric played a Parisian street urchin in Kiki, a seductress in The Harem, and in one of Ulric's biggest hits for Belasco, the 1926 Lulu Belle, where she played a prostitute, a genre that spawned several Broadway hits in the 1920s.
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Lenore Ulric came to Hollywood in 1929 and appeared in Frozen Justice and South Sea Rose.
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Lenore Ulric signed with Fox Film Corporation to make several films with an approximate salary of $650,000.
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Lenore Ulric was successful in a supporting role in Camille, starring Greta Garbo.
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Lenore Ulric returned to Broadway in 1940, acting in The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway and again in 1947, in a revival of Antony and Cleopatra.
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Lenore Ulric was married only once, to actor Sidney Blackmer from 1929 to 1939.
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Lenore Ulric accepted some of the blame for their divorce:.
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Lenore Ulric died of heart failure in Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, on December 30,1970, aged 78.