Hale, Louise Closser (1872–1933), actress. Born in Chicago, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before making her debut in Detroit in 1894 in In Old Kentucky. After touring with William H. Crane and in Arizona, she made her first New York appearance as Prossy in Arnold Daly's production of Candida (1903). Later important appearances included the Fairy Berylune in Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird (1910), Mrs. Atkins in Beyond the Horizon (1920), the cantankerous Mrs. Bett in Miss Lulu Bett (1920), Ase in Peer Gynt (1923), and the understanding mother Mrs. Smith in Expressing Willie (1924). Hale also wrote several novels dealing with theatre life.
Louise Closser Hale
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| Actor: Louise Closser Hale |
- Born: Oct 13, 1872 in Chicago, Illinois
- Died: Jul 26, 1933 in Los Angeles, California
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: '30s
- Major Genres: Drama, Romance
- Career Highlights: The Man Who Played God, The White Sister, Faithless
- First Major Screen Credit: Paris (1929)
Biography
Befitting her triple-barreled name, actress Louise Closser Hale was regularly cast as domineering society matrons. Just as regularly, she was cast as a British aristocrat, and never mind that she actually hailed from Chicago. After a long stage career, Hale came to films at the dawn of the talkie era, co-starring with fellow Broadway veterans Edward G. Robinson and Claudette Colbert in Hole in the Wall. Hale was never more imperious or intimidating than when recreating her stage role of the "monster mom" in the filmization of Rose Franken's Another Language (1933). Not long after completing this picture, Louise Closser Hale died at age 60, as a result of injuries sustained in an accident. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide| Filmography: Louise Closser Hale |
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| Born | Louise Closser October 13, 1872 Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 26, 1933 (aged 60) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress, author, playright |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Hale |
Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright, and novelist.
Born Louise Closser in Chicago, Illinois, she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston, Massachusetts. She made her theatrical debut in Detroit, Michigan in an 1884 production of In Old Kentucky. Her first theatrical success came in 1903, when she appeared in a Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida. In 1907, she made her London debut in Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
In 1899, Closser married artist and actor Walter Hale, whose name she used for her stage career, and who illustrated a number of her travel books. At the age of fifty-seven, after her husband's early death from cancer in 1917, she left the stage for Hollywood.
Closser had a parallel career as an author and playwright, starting in the first decade of the 20th century. She died in Los Angeles, California at the age of sixty-one, of heat prostration. She had just recently finished filming the classic film Dinner at Eight.
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- Louise Closser Hale at the Internet Broadway Database
- Louise Closser Hale at the Internet Movie Database
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- Another Language (1933 Drama Film)
- Paris (1929 Musical Film)
- Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932 Drama Film)
- Sky Bride (1932 Drama Film)
- Expressing Willie (American Theater)
- The Barbarian (1933 Drama Film)
- Platinum Blonde (1931 Romance Film)
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- Daddy Long Legs (1931 film)
- 1920 (chronology)
- The White Sister (1933 film)
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