
Marguerite De La Motte
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1902-06-22
Day of Death
1950-03-10 (47 years old)
Place of Birth
Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Marguerite De La Motte
Biography
Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era.
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing.
De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother.
De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford. Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr.
After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office.
On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.
Acting
(1942)
Overland Mail
as Rose - the Waitress [Chs. 1, 8]
(1942)
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Mrs. Hibbard
(1941)
Reg'lar Fellers
as Mrs. Dugan
(1934)
A Woman's Man
as Gloria Jordan - Star
(1930)
Shadow Ranch
as Ruth Cameron
(1929)
The Iron Mask
as Constance Bonacieux
(1929)
Montmartre Rose
as Jeanne
(1927)
The Final Extra
as Ruth Collins
(1926)
Fifth Avenue
as Barbara Pelham
(1926)
The Unknown Soldier
as Mary Phillips
(1926)
Red Dice
as Beverly Vane
(1926)
Pals in Paradise
as Geraldine 'Jerry' Howard
(1925)
Cheaper to Marry
as Doris
(1925)
Children of the Whirlwind
as Maggie
(1925)
Daughters Who Pay
as Sonia Borisoff / Margaret Smith
(1925)
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
as Mary Hale
(1924)
The Beloved Brute
as Jacinta
(1924)
Those Who Dare
as Marjorie
(1924)
The Clean Heart
as Essie Bickers
(1923)
Wandering Daughters
as Bessie Bowden
(1923)
A Man of Action
as Helen Sumner
(1923)
Scars of Jealousy
as Helen Meanix
(1923)
Richard the Lion-Hearted
as Lady Edith Plantagenet
(1923)
The Famous Mrs. Fair
as Sylvia Fair
(1923)
What a Wife Learned
as Sheila Dorne
(1922)
Shadows
as Sympathy Gibbs
(1922)
Shattered Idols
as Sarasvati
(1921)
The Nut
as Estrell Wynn
(1921)
The Three Musketeers
as Constance
(1920)
The Mark of Zorro
as Lolita Pulido
(1920)
The Hope
as Lady Brenda Carylon
(1920)
Trumpet Island
as Eve de Merincourt
(1920)
The Sagebrusher
as Mary Warren
(1920)
The Broken Gate
as Anne Oglesby
(1920)
The U.P. Trail
as Allie Lee
(1919)
In Wrong
as Millie Fields
(1919)
Josselyn's Wife
as Lizzie
(1919)
A Sage Brush Hamlet
as Dora Lawrence
(1919)
The Pagan God
as Beryl Addison