Lucille La Verne
Lucille La Verne ( born November 7, 1872 in Nashville, † March 4, 1945 in Culver City, Los Angeles County; actually Lucille Mitchum ) was an American theater and film actress and a star of the early 20th century.
Life
Lucille La Verne played in their youth to theaters, for example, the role of Lady Macbeth. In 1888 she made her debut on Broadway and quickly gained praise and recognition for their performances. From the end of the 19th century, she moved with its own theater group by the United States and entered with this also in Europe a higher audience.
In 1914 she starred in Butterflies and Orange Blossoms for the first time in a silent movie. The leap into the movie business, she managed easily, her successful career continued. Silent film roles she had, inter alia, Overnight, Polly of the Circus and The Last Moment. In the 1920s, La Verne came back to the theater and celebrated in 1923 with Sun Up her greatest stage success. Even in Blackface pieces they played with. She made her talkie debut in 1930 in Little Caesar. This was followed by another great film appearances such as in An American Tragedy, directed by Josef von Sternberg, based on the novel by Theodore Dreiser and 1935 on the side of Ronald Colman in flight from Paris. The mid-1930s, she returned again back to Broadway. 1937 La Verne lent her voice to the evil queen and the witch in the Walt Disney animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was her most famous role.
After this success, she finished her acting career and was the owner of a successful evening restaurant. On March 4, 1945 Lucille La Verne died of cancer. Her grave is located on the famous Inglewood Park Cemetery.