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Louise Closser Hale is a Actor American born on 9 october 1872 at Springfield (USA)

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Birth name Louise Closser
Nationality USA
Birth 9 october 1872 at Springfield (USA)
Death 27 july 1933 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Louise Closser Hale (October 13, 1872 – July 26, 1933) was an American actress, playwright and novelist.

Louise Closser was born either in Springfield, Massachusetts or Chicago, Illinois (varying sources). Her father was Joseph A. Closser (1844–1887), a wealthy grain dealer and her mother was Louise M. Closser (1847–1932). She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and at Emerson College of Oratory in Boston.

She made her theatrical debut in Detroit 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.
She was equally famous on New York and London stages, she was known to the world of literature for such novels as Home Talent and An American's London, as well as to the theater for a play called Mother's Millions, which she co-authored.

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. She collaborated with him in the preparation of many travel works. They traveled all over the world. She was a correspondent for Harper's during World War I.

Aged 57, following her husband's death from cancer in 1917, she left the stage for Hollywood. She had a parallel career as an author and playwright, starting in the first decade of the 20th century.

Biography

Après des études à l'Emerson College de Boston et à l'American Academy of Dramatic Arts de New York, elle joue au théâtre (où elle débute en 1894), à Broadway entre 1900 et 1931, et à Londres en 1907, dans des pièces et une comédie musicale. En 1899, elle épouse l'acteur Walter Hale (1869-1917), dont elle adjoindra "à la scène" le patronyme à son nom de naissance. Devenue veuve, elle tente une première expérience au cinéma, avec un film muet de 1919, avant de tourner régulièrement à Hollywood après l'avènement du parlant, à partir de 1929 (dans Paris, adaptation de la comédie musicale qu'elle venait de jouer à Broadway) et jusqu'à sa mort soudaine en 1933. En tout, elle apparaît dans trente films américains, aux côtés de Jean Harlow, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Al Jolson et George Arliss, entre autres.

Elle est également l'auteur de romans et de récits de voyages (ces derniers, avec la collaboration de son mari Walter Hale, auteur des illustrations), publiés entre 1906 et 1927, ainsi que de courts récits de fiction publiés dans divers magazines, durant la même période.