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Louise Huff is a Actor American born on 14 november 1895 at Columbus (USA)
Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era.
Her later silent films included roles in Great Expectations (1917), Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918), The Seventh Day (1922), Disraeli (1921), and Oh, You Women! (1919). She was featured on Broadway in Mary the Third and The New Englander. Huff was featured in motion pictures produced by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and continued in films until 1922.
Huff was a director of the Friends of the Theater and Music Collection at the Museum of the City of New York.
A biography by Hans J. Wollstein states:
A stage ingenue of some importance who had appeared in the original Broadway version of Ben Hur, brunette Louise Huff became a star with the pioneer Lubin Mfg. Company of Philadelphia. In scores of one- and two-reel melodramas and Westerns from the very early 1910s, Huff was especially popular in tandem with Edgar Jones, whom she married. Together, they relocated to California in the mid-1910s but her career was already on the wane and she retired in 1922. Her sister, Justina Huff, was also a Lubin star.
She was married to Edwin A. Stillman, who was president of Watson-Stillman, manufacturers of hydraulic machinery. In her later years, she resided at 155 East 72nd Street in New York, and she died in New York's Doctors Hospital in 1973.
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 november 1895 at Columbus (USA)
Death 22 august 1973 (at 77 years) at New York City (USA)
Birth 14 november 1895 at Columbus (USA)
Death 22 august 1973 (at 77 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
Huff was a relative of former President James Knox Polk. Huff began her acting career at the age of 15. She toured in stage productions of Ben-Hur and Graustark, and made her motion picture debut in 1913 with In the Bishop's Carriage and Caprice. In 1916 she secured the ingenue role opposite Jack Pickford in the Booth Tarkington comedy Seventeen.Her later silent films included roles in Great Expectations (1917), Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918), The Seventh Day (1922), Disraeli (1921), and Oh, You Women! (1919). She was featured on Broadway in Mary the Third and The New Englander. Huff was featured in motion pictures produced by Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and continued in films until 1922.
Huff was a director of the Friends of the Theater and Music Collection at the Museum of the City of New York.
A biography by Hans J. Wollstein states:
A stage ingenue of some importance who had appeared in the original Broadway version of Ben Hur, brunette Louise Huff became a star with the pioneer Lubin Mfg. Company of Philadelphia. In scores of one- and two-reel melodramas and Westerns from the very early 1910s, Huff was especially popular in tandem with Edgar Jones, whom she married. Together, they relocated to California in the mid-1910s but her career was already on the wane and she retired in 1922. Her sister, Justina Huff, was also a Lubin star.
She was married to Edwin A. Stillman, who was president of Watson-Stillman, manufacturers of hydraulic machinery. In her later years, she resided at 155 East 72nd Street in New York, and she died in New York's Doctors Hospital in 1973.
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The Seventh Day (1922)
, 1hDirected by Henry King
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Richard Barthelmess, Frank Losee, Tammany Young, Anne Cornwall, Louise Huff
Roles Patricia Vane
Rating64%
Des problèmes de moteur obligent un yacht plein d'oisifs de la riche société de New York à se rendre au port d'un village de Nouvelle-Angleterre. À cette occasion, Reggie Van Zandt et sa fiancée Patricia Vane rencontrent John Alden et sa sœur Betty. À la recherche d'une diversion, Patricia accepte que John l'accompagne pendant les quatre jours suivants, et Reggie montre le même intérêt à l'égard de Betty. Patricia accepte l'invitation de John d'aller ensemble à l'église, mais ensuite elle a des remords et lui confesse qu'elle est fiancée à Reggie. Le cœur brisé, John se prépare à partir en mer mais, lorsqu'il apprend que sa sœur a été emmenée à bord du yacht par Reggie, il attaque le bateau et frappe Reggie. Reggie et Patricia réalisent leurs erreurs, Reggie reconnaît son amour pour Betty et Patricia sa réelle affection pour John.
Disraeli (1921)
Directed by Henry Kolker
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors George Arliss, Margaret Dale, Louise Huff, Reginald Denny, Edward J. Ratcliffe, Betty Blythe
Roles Clarissa
Rating72%
Oh, You Women! (1919)
, 50minutesDirected by John Emerson
Origin USA
Actors Ernest Truex, Gaston Glass, Louise Huff
Roles Mary Shelby
Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918)
Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Charles Arling, Casson Ferguson, Jane Wolfe, Lottie Pickford
Roles Jean Evans
Sandy (1918)
, 50minutesDirected by George Melford
Origin USA
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, James Neill, Edythe Chapman, Julia Faye, George Beranger
Roles Ruth Nelson
Wild Youth (1918)
, 50minutesDirected by George Melford
Origin USA
Actors Louise Huff, Theodore Roberts, Jack Mulhall, James Cruze, Adele Farrington
Roles Louise Mazarine
Great Expectations (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by Robert G. Vignola, Joseph Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Frank Losee, Marcia Harris, Herbert Prior
Roles Estella
Rating64%
A young boy, Pip, runs into an escaped convict at his local churchyard. Pip does favours for Magwitch (the convict), such as bringing him food etc. until Magwitch is eventually arrested and deported to Australia.
Jack and Jill (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by William Desmond Taylor
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Jack Hoxie
Roles Mary Dwyer
As described in a film magazine, Jack (Pickford), an East Side New York lightweight fighter, becomes the dupe in a frame-up fight in which he knocks out a champion and is led to believe that he killed the man. That night he goes to New Jersey and boards a handcar. The next day he finds himself in Texas where the cowboys decide to have a good time with the tenderfoot. Jill (Huff), his pal and sweetheart, gets the money due Jack for fighting and, when she hears from him, she, too, goes to Texas. She arrives at the ranch when the cowboys are away and the Mexicans are planning a raid. When Jack hears of her presence, he rushes to the ranch and arrives just in time to prevent the Mexicans from attacking it. He knocks out several Mexicans just as the cowboys, who were wondering why Jack was in such a hurry, arrive. The Mexicans are driven off and Jack is the hero of the hour. He is given a steady position at the ranch and he and Jill live on happily.
The Ghost House (1917)
, 50minutesDirected by William C. de Mille
Origin USA
Actors Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, Olga Grey, James Neill, Eugene Pallette, Horace B. Carpenter
Roles Lois Atwell
Rating66%
As described in a film magazine, Lois Atwell (Huff) and her widowed sister Alice (Grey), with no money left to pay their rent, go to live in a house left to them by their uncle which is known to be haunted. The same evening Ted Rawson (Pickford) is sent to spend the night in the haunted house as part of his college hazing. When the women hear someone breaking into the house they think he is a burglar and Lois holds Ted captive at the point of a gun. A real thief is also hiding in the house and when he sees the women trailing in their white gowns, he thinks they are ghosts and departs hastily. Although Lois doubts that Ted is a real housebreaker, she treats him as one until he can explain who he is and the police catch the actual criminal.
Destiny's Toy (1916)
Directed by John B. O'Brien
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Louise Huff, John Bowers, John T. Dillon, Tammany Young, Eddie Sturgis, Kate Lester
Roles Nan Barton
Seventeen (1916)
, 50minutesDirected by Robert G. Vignola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Louise Huff, Jack Pickford, Madge Evans, Walter Hiers, Winifred Allen, Richard Rosson
Roles Lola Pratt
Rating69%
Caprice (1913)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Ernest Truex, Louise Huff, Ogden Crane, John Steppling
Roles Secondary Role (uncredited)
Rating64%
Jack Henderson, un homme riche mais las de ce monde, part chasser dans les monts Adirondacks. Lors de cette chasse, il blesse accidentellement au bras Mercy Baxter, une fille de la montagne. Il tombe amoureux d'elle et, malgré les objections de son père, l'épouse. Mercy, qui a peu d'éducation, fait de réels efforts pour devenir une épouse raffinée, mais ces efforts sont vains. Après qu'elle l'a rendu ridicule devant un camarade d'université, Jack reconnaît auprès de son père qu'il a fait une erreur et Mercy retourne chez elle dans la montagne.
In the Bishop's Carriage (1913)
Directed by Edwin S. Porter, J. Searle Dawley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Mary Pickford, House Peters, Sr., Louise Huff, Grace Henderson, John Steppling
Rating61%
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