Fontaine La Rue

Fontaine La Rue

Born: December 1, 1897
Died: September 13, 1964
in Los Angeles, California, USA

Movies for Fontaine La Rue...

Flyin' Thru
Title: Flyin' Thru
Character: Sybil
Released: December 1, 1925
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson Blair.
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Love on the Rio Grande
Title: Love on the Rio Grande
Released: July 25, 1925
Type: Movie
A 1925 silent Western.
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The Torrent
Title: The Torrent
Character: Dancing Girl
Released: August 1, 1924
Type: Movie
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.
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Unseen Hands
Title: Unseen Hands
Character: Madame Le Quintrec
Released: May 25, 1924
Type: Movie
A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a fortune hunter and soon poisons the husband and marries the wife.
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The Love Letter
Title: The Love Letter
Released: February 9, 1923
Type: Movie
While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated by her boyfriend, Red Mike, but escapes and goes to the town from which she has received an answer to one of her notes.
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A Blind Bargain
Title: A Blind Bargain
Character: Mrs. Lamb
Released: December 3, 1922
Type: Movie
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's attempts to transplant animal glands into human beings.
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Oh, Mabel Behave
Title: Oh, Mabel Behave
Character: The Barmaid
Released: June 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use it to effect a union, but the girl is not interested in him. She already has a sweetheart, handsome Randolph Roanoke (Owen Moore). Peachem and his dumb-as-dirt assistant, Blaa Blaa (Sennett), try to keep Roanoke and Mabel apart. Their feeble attempts are in vain, and Mabel easily manages to outwit them and win the man she loves. - Janiss Garza
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The Bear Cat
Title: The Bear Cat
Character: Mary Lang
Released: April 3, 1922
Type: Movie
The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty verses, but in spite of these, he makes friends with Sheriff Bill Garfield and likewise with Alys May, daughter of cattle rancher John P. May, by saving her from a runaway. As a reward, he gets a job on the ranch and falls in love with Alys, though warned she is engaged to Aitken, her brother's college chum.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Princess Eiderstrom
Released: October 9, 1921
Type: Movie
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing toward war and England infiltrated by saboteurs, will the truth emerge before it is too late?
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Beyond
Title: Beyond
Character: Mrs. Langley
Released: September 4, 1921
Type: Movie
Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her promise. Avis follows her brother to New Zealand in hopes of protecting him from his own ways, but on the trip tragedy apparently strikes.
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The Lost Romance
Title: The Lost Romance
Character: Elizabeth Erskine
Released: May 8, 1921
Type: Movie
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
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The Faith Healer
Title: The Faith Healer
Character: Mary Beeler
Released: March 13, 1921
Type: Movie
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.
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The Sins of Rosanne
Title: The Sins of Rosanne
Character: Rachel Bangat
Released: November 7, 1920
Type: Movie
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine La Rue) promised to cure her. That she did, but she also worked some voodoo on the child, who, as a grown up now displays a powerful desire for diamonds and the ability to throw evil curses on those who displease her.
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A Prohibition Monkey
Title: A Prohibition Monkey
Released: September 13, 1920
Type: Movie
The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon. There is a little church in the town built in haste many years ago but it has been securely boarded up for years. Mr. Riley intended it to remain so for his Sunday business was booming. A traveling evangelist who learned his profession as a circus performer arrives in the town with Charles Bullephant, a peevish elephant; Joe Martin, a highly-cultured orang-outang; and Buster, a famous trained horse. With help from his friends, he sets out to make Beer Bottle Bend a church-going community.
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Human Stuff
Title: Human Stuff
Character: Boka
Released: June 28, 1920
Type: Movie
An Eastern boy is sent to the West to run the family's sheep ranch. The presence of sheep anger nearby cattlemen, who don't want to share their cattle's grazing lands with them, and their leader has no compunctions about resorting to drastic measures to protect his interests.
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The Isle of Love
Title: The Isle of Love
Released: April 10, 1920
Type: Movie
The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various shots were repeated several times; long shots were blown up into close-ups and inter-cut with other footage; some scenes were projected on a loop, so that Rudolph Valentino repeated the same motions several times over; one scene was used as a flashback; and out-takes from the original were inserted into the new film. In addition, the locale of the new picture was switched from World War 1 Germany to a desert island by the simple expedient of inserting shots of bathing beauties on a palm-fringed beach throughout the film.
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The Man Beneath
Title: The Man Beneath
Character: Countess Petite Florence
Released: July 5, 1919
Type: Movie
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college friend, James Bassett. Although Kate loves Ashutor, she says marriage would make them social outcasts.
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Boots
Title: Boots
Character: Mme. De Valdee
Released: February 16, 1919
Type: Movie
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and adventure. When she discovers a Bolshevik plot to blow up a government official, she takes it on herself to foil the plot.
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Borrowed Clothes
Title: Borrowed Clothes
Character: Rita Morris (as Fontine La Rue)
Released: November 4, 1918
Type: Movie
A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other plans for her.
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Did She Do Wrong?
Title: Did She Do Wrong?
Released: March 10, 1918
Type: Movie
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
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Cactus Nell
Title: Cactus Nell
Character: The Gent's Accomplice
Released: June 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Cactus Nell
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His Naughty Thought
Title: His Naughty Thought
Character: Babe Delores
Released: May 6, 1917
Type: Movie
Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.
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Stolen Magic
Title: Stolen Magic
Character: Secondary Supporting Role
Released: November 28, 1915
Type: Movie
A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand
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Love, Loot and Crash
Title: Love, Loot and Crash
Character: Mary, The Banker's Daughter
Released: April 23, 1915
Type: Movie
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.
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Droppington's Family Tree
Title: Droppington's Family Tree
Character: Cabaret Dancer
Released: April 11, 1915
Type: Movie
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's in love with a dancer! She is not happy but he takes her to the theatre (for her birthday). She sees hubby and chases him around, he's also chased by another performer. The son calls a clergyman, Pa saves the girl and they marry at the end.
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The Home Breakers
Title: The Home Breakers
Character: Mts. Walrus
Released: February 1, 1915
Type: Movie
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Title: Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Character: 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1915
Type: Movie
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
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Peanuts and Bullets
Title: Peanuts and Bullets
Character: The Maid They All Love
Released: January 12, 1915
Type: Movie
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his landlady, who wants the overdue rent. When a pretty girl shows up, Charley and his downstairs neighbor, who is a weightlifter, compete for her affections.