Louise Dresser
Louise Dresser (actually: Louise Josephine Kerlin; born October 5, 1878 in Evansville, Indiana, USA, † April 24, 1965 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American film and theater actress.
Life
Louise Dresser already knew early on that she wanted to be an actress, so she ran away from home at age 16 to join a theater group on tour. Your artist name borrowed from one of her best friends, the U.S. musician Paul Dresser ( 1857-1906 ).
Louise Dresser road led them across the Vaudeville to Broadway, where it was the end of August 1906 her debut as a theater actress. Here, as later in the film, it was predominantly present in minor roles. Dresser, who was never seen again after 1918 on Broadway, was in the 1922 silent film The Glory of Clementina first time on camera.
Although their 49 films has long been only movie lovers are well known today, but the film drama is the new home (A Ship Comes In ) Dressers sustained the most momentous film, it was but in 1929, in the first gala of film history at all, for the Oscar in the category Best Actress nomination. It is also worth her portrayal of Catherine the Great in The Eagle in 1925 on the side of Rudolph Valentino.
After 1937 she retired from acting, she was instrumental in the financing and construction of the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Hollywood, a hospital, where she died. Louise Dresser was married twice. After a brief marriage to musician and actor Jack Norworth, at the beginning of the 20th century, she was married from 1909 to 1951 with Jack Gardner, whose name she took after her acting career. Both marriages were childless.
Louise Dresser- Gardner died at the age of 86 years to a bowel obstruction.
Today is dedicated to her a star on the Walk of Fame.