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
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Borrowed Clothes
Overview: A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other plans for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-11-04
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Cactus Nell
Overview: Cactus Nell
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-03
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Unseen Hands
Overview: A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the husband and marries the wife.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-25
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Human Stuff
Overview: An Eastern boy is sent to the West to run the family's sheep ranch. The presence of sheep anger nearby cattlemen, who don't want to share their cattle's grazing lands with them, and their leader has no compunctions about resorting to drastic measures to protect his interests.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-06-28
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Flyin' Thru
Overview: Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson Blair.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-01
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The Bear Cat
Overview: The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty verses, but in spite of these, he makes friends with Sheriff Bill Garfield and likewise with Alys May, daughter of cattle rancher John P. May, by saving her from a runaway. As a reward, he gets a job on the ranch and falls in love with Alys, though warned she is engaged to Aitken, her brother's college chum.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-04-03
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Stolen Magic
Overview: A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-11-28
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The Isle of Love
Overview: The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other footage; some scenes were projected on a loop, so that Rudolph Valentino repeated the same motions several times over; one scene was used as a flashback; and out-takes from the original were inserted into the new film. In addition, the locale of the new picture was switched from World War 1 Germany to a desert island by the simple expedient of inserting shots of bathing beauties on a palm-fringed beach throughout the film.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-04-10
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Droppington's Family Tree
Overview: Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-11
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The Faith Healer
Overview: A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-03-13
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Boots
Overview: Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot to blow up a government official, she takes it on herself to foil the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-02-16
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The Great Impersonation
Overview: When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-10-09
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The Lost Romance
Overview: Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-05-08
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A Blind Bargain
Overview: Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings. A lost film.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-12-03
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Overview: Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-23
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Love, Loot and Crash
Overview: A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-04-23
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The Man Beneath
Overview: The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-07-05
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The Torrent
Overview: Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-08-01
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A Prohibition Monkey
Overview: The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-09-13
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Peanuts and Bullets
Overview: A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-01-12
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The Home Breakers
Overview: Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-02-01
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His Naughty Thought
Overview: Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-05-06
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The Sins of Rosanne
Overview: Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-11-07
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Beyond
Overview: Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her promise. Avis follows her brother to New Zealand in hopes of protecting him from his own ways, but on the trip tragedy apparently strikes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-09-04
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Love on the Rio Grande
Overview: A 1925 silent Western.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-25
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Overview: Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use it to effect a union, but the girl is not interested in him. She already has a sweetheart, handsome Randolph Roanoke (Owen Moore). Peachem and his dumb-as-dirt assistant, Blaa Blaa (Sennett), try to keep Roanoke and Mabel apart. Their feeble attempts are in vain, and Mabel easily manages to outwit them and win the man she loves. - Janiss Garza
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-06-20
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The Love Letter
Overview: While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-09
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Did She Do Wrong?
Overview: An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-10
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The Secret Code
Overview: A lost silent Western short.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-02-28
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The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
Overview: A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each episode in the series was a story complete in itself. They are all presumably lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-02-28
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Who Killed Walton?
Overview: Farnum Walton, a dissipated artist, is engaged to illustrate Marian Emlen's new book and invites her to a disreputable restaurant, ostensibly to discuss his ideas. At dinner, Walton tries to embrace Marian, who rushes to a phone booth to call her fiancé, anti-vice crusader Austin Booth. The self-righteous Austin, however, rebukes Marian so severely that she faints. Awakening hours later, she finds herself in Walton's apartment, the artist dead beside her. Politician George Hamilton agrees to help Marian, but Austin denounces her as a murderer. Knowing that Elsa Armytage was involved with Walton, George visits the woman, who confesses that she jealously quarreled with the artist on the evening of his death. When Walton dropped dead of heart failure, Elsa, seeking revenge, had the unconscious Marian carried to his apartment. Her name cleared, Marian abandons Austin for the more trusting George.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-04-14
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The Showdown
Overview: The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.
Genres: Western
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-05-14
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Mabel Lost and Won
Overview: Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When an annoying party guest persuades Mabel to dance with him, Mabel hurries through the dance and then goes to look for her fiancé, only to discover him caressing another woman. Her fiancé finds not only Mabel, but also her mother, very displeased, and not inclined to believe his explanation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-06-02
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Wronged by Mistake
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-10
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