Louise Fazenda
Louise Fazenda (born 17 June 1895 in Lafayette, Indiana, † April 17, 1962 in Beverly Hills, California ) was an American comedienne and actress.
Life
Louise Fazendas family had a grocery store in Los Angeles, where Louise High School and St. Mary 's Convent visited. Variety of jobs, she began her film career in 1913 as an actress in the Joker Comedies of Universal Studios, produced the also the comedian Bobby Vernon.
In 1915 she was hired by Mack Sennett for the Keystone Studios, where she worked in the Ambrose movies collaborated with Mack Swain and was particularly fond cast as hillbilly Hinterwäldlerin with multiple ringlets. The gifted comedienne quickly became the second most important female star of the studio after Mabel Normand and received during a time-out from 1916 Normand their best roles. The end of 1917 she left Keystone and followed Sennett, who had founded his own studio. Here she played among others the lead role in the feature film comedy Down on the Farm (1920).
1921 ended the comedienne its cooperation with Sennett, to look for more lucrative offers out. After a brief detour into vaudeville, she starred during the 1920s as a comic character actress in feature films, most major Hollywood studios. One of her specialties was now the embodiment of snobbish high society ladies. After the introduction of sound film, which did not hurt her career, she also worked with in musicals. Your last film appearance she graduated in 1939 in The Old Maid at the side of Bette Davis.
1927 Louise Fazenda had married her second husband Hal B. Wallis, who soon afterwards as a film producer for Warner Bros. became famous (Casablanca, etc.). They had a son and were up to Fazendas death a couple. After their retreat into private life, the Fazenda regarded as intellectually devoted to collecting works of art and fought for the poor, sick and children. In 1962 she died of a cerebral hemorrhage and was buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, near Los Angeles. Louise Fazenda has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ( 6801 Hollywood Blvd. ).