FONTAINE LA RUE is another favorite who is a real native daughter, having
been born in Los Angeles twenty-five years ago. She received her education
in her home city, attending the Sacred Heart Convent six years and later
going to the Hollywood High School.
She studied dancing and went on the stage as a toe dancer in big musical
shows. Going into motion pictures seven years ago, she has been a consistent
favorite and has appeared in many big feature productions. Chiefly she plays
characters, vampires and ingenues. She first took up cinema work in order
to be enabled to work outdoors.
Miss La Rue played with Helen Keller, and had the "heavy" role
for Dorothy Gish in "Boots," which was directed by Elmer Clifton.
She played in "The Wild Cat of Paris" with Priscilla Dean, and
also appeared with Grace Cunard in "After the War."
She is a fluent linguist, speaking French, Italian and Spanish. Her hobby
is astronomy, and she is also fond of wild animals and nature study. Her
favorite sports are driving, swimming, hunting, fishing and diving. One
year she won the Venice championship for high and fancy diving.
She is five feet, two inches in height, weighs 130 pounds and has brown
eyes and dark hair, which photograph black. Miss La Rue has had many, thrilling
experiences in pictures, having been attacked and bitten by a lion, and
once a snake tried to crush her and had to be cut loose from her body.
In "The Social Buccaneer," a recent Universal serial, and several
recent feature productions, Miss La Rue has played vampire roles. In "The
Lost Romance," directed by William de Mille, she played the oldest
character of her career, a forty-year old spinster that offered a lovely
characterization. Her roles always have an exotic character and her performances
have the flavor of her foreign characteristics. |