Marguerite De La Motte
53 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 22, 1902
- Died
- Mar 10, 1950 (age 47)
- Place of birth
- Duluth, Minnesota, USA
- Also known as
- Peggy De La Motte · Marguerite Beatrice De La Motte
Biography
Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing.
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De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother.
De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford. Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr.
After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office.
On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.
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Known for
Marguerite De La Motte: movies and TV shows
Acting (53)
- 1942 Overland Mail
as Rose - the Waitress [Chs. 1, 8]
- 1942 The Man Who Returned to Life
as Mrs. Hibbard
- 1941 Reg'lar Fellers
as Mrs. Dugan
- 1934 A Woman's Man
as Gloria Jordan - Star
- 1930 Shadow Ranch
as Ruth Cameron
- 1929 Montmartre Rose
as Jeanne
- 1929 The Iron Mask
as Constance Bonacieux
- 1927 Broadway Madness
as Maida Vincent
- 1927 Ragtime
as Beth Barton
- 1927 The Kid Sister
as Helen Hall
- 1927 Held by the Law
as Mary Travis
- 1927 The Final Extra
as Ruth Collins
- 1926 Pals in Paradise
as Geraldine 'Jerry' Howard
- 1926 The Last Frontier
as Beth
- 1926 The Unknown Soldier
as Mary Phillips
- 1926 Red Dice
as Beverly Vane
- 1926 Fifth Avenue
as Barbara Pelham
- 1925 The People vs. Nancy Preston
as Nancy Preston
- 1925 The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
as Mary Hale
- 1925 Children of the Whirlwind
as Maggie
- 1925 Daughters Who Pay
as Sonia Borisoff / Margaret Smith
- 1925 Cheaper to Marry
as Doris
- 1924 In Love with Love
as Ann Jordan
- 1924 East of Broadway
as Judy McNulty
- 1924 Those Who Dare
as Marjorie
- 1924 The Beloved Brute
as Jacinta
- 1924 Gerald Cranston's Lady
as Angela
- 1924 The Clean Heart
as Essie Bickers
- 1923 Richard the Lion-Hearted
as Lady Edith Plantagenet
- 1923 Desire
as Ruth Cassell
- 1923 Wandering Daughters
as Bessie Bowden
- 1923 A Man of Action
as Helen Sumner
- 1923 Just Like a Woman
as Peggy Dean
- 1923 Scars of Jealousy
as Helen Meanix
- 1923 The Famous Mrs. Fair
as Sylvia Fair
- 1923 What a Wife Learned
as Sheila Dorne
- 1922 The Jilt
as Rose Trenton
- 1922 Shadows
as Sympathy Gibbs
- 1922 Shattered Idols
as Sarasvati
- 1921 The Three Musketeers
as Constance
- 1921 The Ten Dollar Raise
as Dorothy
- 1921 The Nut
as Estrell Wynn
- 1920 The Mark of Zorro
as Lolita Pulido
- 1920 The Broken Gate
as Anne Oglesby
- 1920 The U.P. Trail
as Allie Lee
- 1920 The Hope
as Lady Brenda Carylon
- 1920 Trumpet Island
as Eve de Merincourt
- 1920 The Sagebrusher
as Mary Warren
- 1919 In Wrong
as Millie Fields
- 1919 For a Woman's Honor
as Helen Rutherford
- 1919 The Pagan God
as Beryl Addison
- 1919 A Sage Brush Hamlet
as Dora Lawrence
- 1919 Josselyn's Wife
as Lizzie