38 Facts About Louise Glaum

Louise Glaum stayed on in Chicago, where she appeared in a number of productions.

Louise Glaum appeared in over 110 movies from 1912 to 1925, her debut being in When the Heart Calls.

For over three years, Louise Glaum headlined on the vaudeville circuit in dramatic playlets.

Louise Glaum presented a play in which she starred, Trial Marriage, in Los Angeles in 1928.

Louise Glaum was active in music clubs over the following decades.

Louise Glaum served as president of the Matinee Musical Club for many years and was state president of the California Federation of Music Clubs.

Louise Glaum's sisters were Hattie Helen "Phyllis" Glaum, Lena K Glaum, and Margaret Olive Glaum.

Louise Glaum's father was born as Johannes Wilhelm Glaum in Germany, emigrated with his family to the US in 1869, and lived in Indiana, then Prince George's County, Maryland, while her mother was born in New York City to German-born parents.

Louise Glaum attended Berendo School on South Berendo Street in Pico Heights.

Louise Glaum was in the cast of Crucifixus, a Passion play, which opened on November 12,1907, at the Gamut Auditorium, 1044 South Hope Street, in Los Angeles, before a good-sized audience.

Louise Glaum then toured as an ingenue with a road show in Why Girls Leave Home.

Louise Glaum earned $25 a week and furnished her own gowns, which she made herself.

Louise Glaum's mother wanted her to remain in Los Angeles, but the desire to return to the stage possessed her.

Louise Glaum compromised, however; while acting as the ingenue in a local theatre company, she began making the rounds of the movie studios.

Louise Glaum acted in straight comedy, never doing slapstick, from the start, and played leads exclusively.

Louise Glaum starred in the title role of the Broncho Motion Picture Company's two-reel drama The Quakeress opposite Charles Ray and William Desmond Taylor.

The year Louise Glaum arrived, Nestor was merged with the Universal Film Company.

Louise Glaum played Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers.

Louise Glaum appeared in six westerns opposite William S Hart, including her roles as Dolly in Hell's Hinges, Trixie in The Aryan and Poppy in The Return of Draw Egan.

Louise Glaum played Leila Aradella in The Wolf Woman ; and Marie Chaumontel in the war drama Somewhere in France opposite Howard C Hickman.

Louise Glaum played the role of Lola Montrose in the drama A Strange Transgressor.

Louise Glaum then starred in the title role as a gun-slinging heroine, the female equivalent to Bill Hart, in the Triangle Company's western Golden Rule Kate.

Louise Glaum played Mary Thorne in the drama The Goddess of Lost Lake, which she co-produced through her own production company, the Louise Glaum Organization.

Louise Glaum was maintaining her own household in Los Angeles, when the 1920 census was enumerated, with a married couple, housekeeper and caretaker, and a gardener.

Nothing was paid and in the fall of 1923, according to Louise Glaum, he went to Paris without paying her.

Louise Glaum then sued the estate of Thomas H Ince, Read's partner, stating that Read was insolvent and asking for the $103,000 plus $290,000 for breach of contract.

Louise Glaum then filed suit in California, but a copy of the contract was not attached.

Louise Glaum stayed away from Los Angeles for over three years as she headlined on the big-time vaudeville circuit in the East.

Louise Glaum did a tour of Loew's Theatres in two dramatic playlets.

Louise Glaum was the only character in the one person show, putting over the argument of the piece chiefly by a telephone conversation.

On November 16,1928, Louise Glaum opened in Trial Marriage, the story of a woman who wants to test the suitability of her prospective mate and herself to each other without the benefit of wedlock before they make it permanent.

Louise Glaum continued to act on the stage and became a drama instructor, opening and appearing in her own theatre in Los Angeles in the mid-1930s.

Louise Glaum presented three one-act plays for the club on November 17,1937, in the Creative Arts Center at 4950 Franklin Avenue in Hollywood.

Louise Glaum was a busy clubwoman over the last three decades of her life.

Louise Glaum served as president of the Matinee Musical Club for many years and as state president of the California Federation of Music Clubs.

Louise Glaum died at age 82 of pneumonia in Los Angeles.

Louise Glaum is interred in Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, along with her second husband, Zachary Harris, and others of her family.

Louise Glaum has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard, for her work in motion pictures.