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  Elsie Ferguson - Biocrawler
Ferguson, noted for her great beauty and as one of the "Park Avenue aristocrats," on one occasion is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of bonds in less than an hour.
Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 60 that met with critical acclaim.
Elsie Ferguson was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
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 Classic Images: Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Louise Ferguson was born in New York, NY on August 19, 1883.
Ferguson was the 'toast of Broadway' and was widely regarded as 'the most beautiful woman on the spoken stage.' Several motion picture companies had tried to court Ms.
Ferguson's voice was a bit lower-pitched than one would expect, but her precise, clear diction demonstrates why she was such a successful stage actress.
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 Elsie Ferguson
Elsie Ferguson, born August 19, 1883 - died November 15, 1961, was an American stage and film actress.
The Toys were an RandB trio, a girl group, from New York who formed in 1961 and disbanded in 1968.
She was the lead singer for the most part,.
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Elsie Ferguson has that effect, she is stimulating, constantly buoying one up by her mentality, and by her human outlook on life's tangled problems.
Elsie Ferguson is not bound to pictures commercially, though she does make $1,000 every day she works, and has a maid, car and other accessories furnished her by the Famous Players- Lasky Company, whose treasury she enriches.
Elsie Ferguson, by her graciousness, by her well-bred manner of doing things, and her knowledge of what to wear and what not to wear, gave [those] ambitious to be motion picture stars a new ideal to copy.
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  Biography of Elsie Ferguson -   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ferguson, noted for her great beauty and as one of the "Park Avenue aristocrats," on one occasion is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of bonds in less than an hour.
Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 60 that met with critical acclaim.
Elsie Ferguson was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut.
www.short-biographies.com /biographies/ElsieFerguson.html   (1402 words)

  
 Our Families - aqwg53
Dona Elsie FERGUSON was born 22 Mar 1899 and died 3 Feb 1952.
Perlie A FERGUSON was born 13 Jun 1886.
Dona Elsie FERGUSON [Parents] was born 22 Mar 1899 in Claiborne County Tennessee.
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 Witness for the Defense
Warner Oland menaces Elsie Ferguson in this posed publicity still from The Witness for the Defense.
He demands that she forget her childhood sweetheart and marry a wealthy British official (Warner Oland), who turns out to be an alcoholic brute.
Miss Ferguson is obviously a stage-trained actress with a charming if quaint Delsarte style of emotive gestures.
www.und.edu /instruct/cjacobs/WitnessfortheDefense.htm   (0 words)

  
 Videodetective.com - SCARLET PAGES TRAILER PAGE
In rare film appearance, Broadway luminary Elsie Ferguson repeats her 1929 stage role in the 1930 film version of Scarlet Pages.
Ferguson is cast as brilliant attorney Mary Bancroft, who defends nightclub songstress Nora Mason (Marian Nixon) from a murder charge.
The film is a typical early-talkie bore, but it''s worth enduring to watch the great Elsie Ferguson give her all to her art.
www.videodetective.com /titledetails.aspx?masterid=77291   (113 words)

  
 Litchfield Dance Arts Academy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elsie Pollock teaches Musical Theater to the children of LDAA and is the pianist for all the Royal Academy of Dance Syllabus classes at LDAA.
Elsie also gives private piano lessons and aside from this, she is also the Choir Director and organist at the Prince George Episcopal Church in Georgetown.
Elsie is a graduate of Furman University and completed additional studies at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington.
www.litchfield-dance.com /faculty.php   (834 words)

  
 Bryan Family History
Ruby Ferguson died as a child on December 19, 1895 and was buried in Brandon, Texas.
Bobbie was born on December 26, 1929 in Bynum, Texas and is the son of Charlie Williams and Bertha (Abigail) Williams.
Elsie (Ferguson) Harwell died on February 16, 1951 in Brandon, Texas and was buried there in the Brandon Cemetery.
www.rcasey.net /bryan/bryferg.htm   (5347 words)

  
 Elsie Ferguson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elsie Ferguson (August 19, 1883 - November 15, 1961) was an American stage and film actress.
Following this first film, Elsie Ferguson starred in two more films directed by Tourneur under a lucrative contract from Paramount Pictures that paid her $1,000 per day of filming.
Although her voice came across well enough, at age 47 she was well past her prime for fans who wanted to see her as the great youthful beauty she had once been.
www.info-pedia.net /about/elsie_ferguson   (589 words)

  
 Casey Family History
JESSIE GENEVA FERGUSON (4.4.2) is the daughter of Robert Marvin Ferguson and Odia Geneva (Bryan) Ferguson.
KING BERYL FERGUSON (4.4.6) is the son of Robert Marvin Ferguson and Odia Genieve (Bryan) Ferguson.
ELSIE DEAN FERGUSON (4.4.7) is the daughter of Robert Marvin Ferguson and Odia Genieve (Bryan) Ferguson.
www.rcasey.net /master/bryferg.htm   (5318 words)

  
 Harbour-Holst Genealogy
Samuel C. Ferguson was born in 1864 in Melbourne, Australia to John Ferguson and a woman of Scotch parentage.
The brooch was given to Alice Emma and then passed on to her daughter Elsie Ferguson, who wore it on her dresses up until her death in 1981.
Alice married Samuel Cornelius Ferguson in Australia in 1883 and died in 1913 in South Africa.
www.harbourcom.com /ferguson.htm   (693 words)

  
 Elsie Ferguson in The Lie at the Isis Theater ~ Vintage Kansas City.com
Elsie Ferguson in The Lie at the Isis Theater ~ Vintage Kansas City.com
Aside from the great popularity of Miss Ferguson, whose beauty and genius are universally recognized, the attractiveness of "The Lie," as a heart-appealing story of pristine quality, doubtless will be sufficient to make this presentation an epoch at this theatre.
The subject is one that appeals to the human emotions with irresistible force, and the lessons it teaches cannot fail to have a beneficial influence.
www.vintagekansascity.com /entertainment/movies/isis/elsieferguson_thelie.html   (156 words)

  
 Don Ferguson: Brandon Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ELSIE DEAN FERGUSON (4.4.7) is the daughter of Robert Marvin Ferguson and Odia Genieve (Bryan) Ferguson.
Elsie was born on July 9, 1901 in Brandon, Texas.
Ottie was born on March 6, 1898 in Brooken, Texas and is the son of Rufus Elzie Harwell and Belle (Snodgrass) Harwell.
www.lycos.com /info/don-ferguson--brandon-cemetery.html   (289 words)

  
 San Angelo District news
The Rev. Elsie Ferguson is to be honored for service to community.
Ferguson, pastor of Wesley UMC, San Angelo, is one of San Angelo’s Angels for 2004.
The community gives thanks to Ferguson and celebrates with her in all the accomplishments she has made here in the San Angelo District and community.
www.umcswtx.org /news/witness/witHtm0305/sad/honored.htm   (135 words)

  
 Elsie Margarite Ferguson - I111 - Individual Information - - PhpGedView   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elsie was born April 3, 1886 to Samuel Cornelius Ferguson and Alice Emma Heale in Melbourne, Australia.
Elsie went to school in Black Flat, Australia, 17 miles North from Melbourne.
At age 14, Elsie wentto live with Jean Bennett and her father in Stawell, Australia, which is located approximately 250 miles North Northwest of Melborne in the Victoria Territory.
harbourcom.com /gedview/individual.php?pid=I111&PHPSESSID=xxCOMPATIBLEsZYBORGfsWNtsZYBOxx   (327 words)

  
 Elsie Ferguson   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Elsie Ferguson, Aristocrat of the Silent Screen," by Robert Klepper in Classic Images.
A Louella Parsons interview with Elsie Ferguson in Taylorology 63.
Another interview with Elsie Ferguson in Taylorology 93.
www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/ferguson.htm   (166 words)

  
 Movie Info for Counterfeit on MSN Movies
Stage star Elsie Ferguson gives moving pictures a try in Counterfeit.
Elsie plays a woman of mystery who takes a vacation in Newport.
Coinciding with her visit is a flood of counterfeit money that has popped up in every merchant's cash register within a radius of fifty miles.
tv.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=68882   (104 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway - Broadway 101 "1910-1920: Over There" Part 2
Perhaps at the end of his life, the star maker, who was so shy that he avoided his own employees on the street, was his own greatest star.
Elsie Janis, who had the archetype of all stage mothers, had been wowing American audiences since the age of 10, when, with perfectly accented mimicry, she was covering the tunes of French performer, Anna Held.
Up and coming starlet Elsie Ferguson is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of Bonds in less than an hour.
www.talkinbroadway.com /bway101/3b.html   (1116 words)

  
 Obit: Ferguson, Harry (1854 - 1918)
His father, Samuel Ferguson, was the first white man to make actual settlement and enter land in Clark County.
Elsie Grace Ferguson Rogers, of Newport, Wash., and Bernard H. Ferguson, a noted singer of New York City.
Burial took place in the Neillsville Cemetery Tuesday, under the auspices of the Merrillan Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member, a large number of Neillsville Masons meeting the train and taking part in the ceremonies at the grave.
www.usgennet.org /usa/wi/county/clark/webbbs/records/index.cgi?read=3256   (261 words)

  
 The Danger Mark (1918) - Overview - MSN Movies
Ferguson plays a society girl whose life is ruined by her fondness for the grape.
She manages to pull herself together in time to rescue her boy friend (Mahlon Hamilton) from likewise drinking himself into oblivion.
It's a creaky tale, but Elsie Ferguson saves the proceedings with her subtle underplaying.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=164579&mp=m&   (87 words)

  
 Elsie Ferguson (I)
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The great Broadway stage actress and silent film star Elsie Louise Ferguson...
Discuss this name with other users on IMDb message board for Elsie Ferguson (I)
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 Footlight Notes - Home - Week ending 4 October 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: )
'Elsie Ferguson was sympathetic and interesting as Esther, and gave the light and heavy shadings of the character with nice discrimination.
Miss Ferguson was slipping out of the fl frock of Esther's premature widowhood into a smart Spring gown of girlish blue, and replaced the widow's bonnet with a blue turban.
She and her husband [Fred Hoey] were nearly ready for their after-theatre bolt to their home at West End, N.J., when I asked her how a first year as a star looked in retrospect.
footlightnotes.tripod.com /20031004home.html   (1006 words)

  
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The old gentleman tells her the romantic story of her mother's life, as a poor little orphan girl adopted by a kindly farmer, and who finally marries the little boy who had defended her against other cruel boys of the village.
The story is exquisitely told, and the child part is played by little Mildred Elsie Ferguson, so cleverly, yet so simply, that if she can keep up that standard, she is quite evidently destined for a great career on the silver screen.
Walter Stanzel, director of the Strand theatre orchestra, arranged special music for the performance of 'Her Own Story.' At the conclusion of the first performance, Fred Gillen, manager of the theatre, presented young star Baby Elsie Ferguson to the thunderous applause of the audience.
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 TIME.com: Notes -- Mar. 30, 1925 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Elsie Ferguson will be seen, next season, in a comedy called The Grand Duchess from the pen of Henry Savoir, Frenchman.
Miss Ferguson leaves presently for the coast where Henry Miller is about to open his annual repertory season in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
George Kaufman, co-author of numerous successes (Dulcy, To the Ladies, Meeting of the Movies, The Beggar on Horseback), has written a play of his own and called it The Butter and Egg Man. Gregory Kelly is cast for the lead.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,720107,00.html   (603 words)

  
 Don Blanding - All about the Vagabond Poet
He had a deep love for the theater, but had no desire to go on the stage permanently because of the repetitious quality of acting.
While working at the opera house he was able to see and hear the operas and study firsthand the techniques of the great actors - Mary Garden, Geraldine Farrar and Elsie Ferguson.
I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the world...until I saw Mary Garden.
www.don-blanding.com /theatre.htm   (943 words)

  
 Scarlet Pages (1930)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The lady barrister is played with flair and dignity by distinguished silent screen actress Elsie Ferguson, who reprises her role from the Broadway production of the show.
That her father was a famous lawyer helped Ferguson in adding authenticity to the role.
There is way too much talk which the studios encouraged to show off the new media of sound cinema believing that audiences wanted as much chatter as possible for their money.
www.muzone.cn@imdb.com /title/tt0021337   (589 words)

  
 GKFH Obit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Richard Wayne “Dick” Ferguson was born on December 27, 1930 to Fred and Elsie (Dunn) Ferguson.
He graduated from Tyndall High School in 1948 and served in the Army from February of 1952 until February of 1954.
He was preceded in death by a 2-year-old son, Michael Ferguson; two grandchildren: Brooke and Dana Gall; a daughter-in-law, Josette Ferguson; his parents, Fred and Elsie Ferguson; one brother, Johnny Ferguson; two sisters: Dorothy Ferguson and Betty Ferguson; and a brother-in-law, Oscar Bartunek.
www.goglin-kelleyfuneralhome.com /Ferguson.html   (230 words)

  
 Crossroads Art Center a Fine Art and Crafts Gallery located in heart of Richmond, Virginia
Elsie was born and raised in Giles County, VA. She moved to the Richmond, VA area in 1963, then to Mechanicsville, VA in 1972 where she resides with her husband.
Elsie’s work has been juried into many shows and competitions.
Elsie exhibits in many outdoor shows in Virginia.
www.crossroadsartcenter.com /artist2.html   (3153 words)

  
 Elsie Ferguson
ELSIE FERGUSON was born in New York City, in 1883, educated at the New York Normal College and had qualified to become a teacher, but the stage appealed too strongly and she made her first appearance at the Madison Square Theatre.
Success was soon won, and she soon became known both here and abroad.
Then Famous Players produced "Such a Little Queen," Miss Ferguson's famous stage success, and she consented to play the leading role in the screen version.
silentladies.com /BFergusonE.html   (102 words)

  
 Helen Ferguson
HELEN FERGUSON, a graduate of the Nicholas High School of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts, decided to enter motion pictures and received her first experience with the Essanay Company of that city.
Miss Ferguson has won fame as a character delineator, and is considered one of the screen's most versatile performers.
She was born in Decatur, Illinois, in 1901.
silentladies.com /BFergusonH.html   (102 words)

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