Fontaine La Rue

Fontaine La Rue

Also Known As: not available

Biography: Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies. She was one of seven children born to Diego and Carlotta Monreal Fernandez. After immigrating to the United States in 1907, Matilda married Victor Garcia Rojas. The couple had three children, Victor Paul, Matilda Garcia, and Victoria Grace. After the couple divorced, Matilda entered show business. She got her start on stage as a toe dancer and in musical comedy. She toured with the Trimble Musical Comedy Company in 1914 before breaking into films the following year in comedy shorts for Keystone. She first used the name Dora Rodgers, but reinvented herself with the name Fontaine La Rue, tiring of playing vamps. On occasions she would switch between the names. Notably she appeared in the lost film, A Blind Bargain with Lon Chaney. After a lengthy love affair with actor Nelson McDowell, Fontaine married real estate broker Wayne Hancock and retired from the screen. The Keystone Vamp died of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on September 13, 1964, at UCLA Medical Center.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

Birthday: December 01, 1897

Deathday: September 13, 1964

Adult: No

Gender: Female

TMDb-Id: 1263416

IMDb-Id: nm0479007

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Known For

Borrowed Clothes
Borrowed Clothes

1918-11-04

Cactus Nell
Cactus Nell

1917-06-03

Unseen Hands
Unseen Hands

1924-05-25

Human Stuff
Human Stuff

1920-06-28

Flyin' Thru
Flyin' Thru

1925-12-01

The Bear Cat
The Bear Cat

1922-04-03

Stolen Magic
Stolen Magic

1915-11-28

The Isle of Love
The Isle of Love

1920-04-10

Droppington's Family Tree
Droppington's Family Tree

1915-04-11

The Faith Healer
The Faith Healer

1921-03-13

Boots
Boots

1919-02-16

The Great Impersonation
The Great Impersonation

1921-10-09

The Lost Romance
The Lost Romance

1921-05-08

A Blind Bargain
A Blind Bargain

1922-12-03

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

1915-01-23

Love, Loot and Crash
Love, Loot and Crash

1915-04-23

The Man Beneath
The Man Beneath

1919-07-05

The Torrent
The Torrent

1924-08-01

A Prohibition Monkey
A Prohibition Monkey

1920-09-13

Peanuts and Bullets
Peanuts and Bullets

1915-01-12

The Home Breakers
The Home Breakers

1915-02-01

His Naughty Thought
His Naughty Thought

1917-05-06

The Sins of Rosanne
The Sins of Rosanne

1920-11-07

Beyond
Beyond

1921-09-04

Love on the Rio Grande
Love on the Rio Grande

1925-07-25

Oh, Mabel Behave
Oh, Mabel Behave

1922-06-20

The Love Letter
The Love Letter

1923-02-09

Did She Do Wrong?
Did She Do Wrong?

1918-03-10

The Secret Code
The Secret Code

1922-02-28

The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

1922-02-28

Who Killed Walton?
Who Killed Walton?

1918-04-14

The Showdown
The Showdown

1923-05-14

Mabel Lost and Won
Mabel Lost and Won

1915-06-02

Wronged by Mistake
Wronged by Mistake

1918-02-10