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Louise Carter
Louise Carter
Born	Betty-Lee Carter; March 17, 1875; Denison, Iowa, United States
Died	November 10, 1957 (Age 82); Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1924 - 1940 (film)
Spouses	Frederick Seymour; Cobrun Broun;

Louise Carter (born Betty-Lee Carter; March 17, 1875 – November 10, 1957) was an American stage and film actress.^[1] She appeared in 48 films between 1924 and 1940, mostly in maternal supporting roles. Among her roles were the mother of Paul Muni in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), the wife of Lionel Barrymore in Broken Lullaby (1932) and the wife of W. C. Fields in You're Telling Me! (1934).

Early years

Carter was born Betty-Lee Carter on March 17, 1875, in Denison, Iowa. Her parents, Lawrence "Louis" J. Carter and Philomine Richards Carter, were French-Canadian. She had five younger siblings, and she was a graduate of Denison High School.^[2]

Career

By 1902, Carter had acted in Boston, New London, and New York City. She became the leading lady of the Gotham Stock Company in New York City in 1911. The company performed in Orpheum Company vaudeville houses owned by Percy G. Williams, who often had the cast of a play present it in one theater, then hurry to a second theater in the chain for another performance in the same evening.^[2] In 1928, Carter and her daughter Betty-Lee acted together in Skidding at the Bayes Theatre in New York City.^[3]

Carter also wrote plays, including the one-act The Soldiers, which was presented in Toronto by a stock touring company headed by Miss Percy Haswell. She went on to write at least six more plays.^[2] In 1931, Thomas Nelson and Sons published Bible Jingle Rymes, Carter's adaptation of Bible stories into "delightful children's verse".^[4]

Personal life

When Carter was 21, she married Frederick Seymour. They had two daughters (the second of whom was named Betty-Lee Carter, like her mother and became an actress) before they separated. By that time Carter was living in Silver City, New Mexico, to which the rest of her family had moved. By 1915, the two had apparently divorced. She had married Cobrun Broun, and they were living in Toronto.^[2]

Partial filmography

The Truth About Women (1924) - Bronson's Mother
Scandal Street (1925) - Cora Forman
The Lost Chord (1925) - Phyllis
The Substitute Wife (1925) - Evelyn Wentworth
In Borrowed Plumes (1926) - Clara Raymond
Striving for Fortune (1926)
Broken Lullaby (1932) - Frau Holderlin
Are You Listening? (1932) - Mrs. O'Neil (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Clara Deane (1932) - Couturiere (uncredited)
Week-End Marriage (1932) - Mrs. Davis
Stranger in Town (1932) - Mrs. Croaker (uncredited)
The Last Mile (1932) - Mrs. Walters
Blondie of the Follies (1932) - Ma Callahan
Two Against the World (1932) - Mrs. Polansky (scenes deleted)
Hell's Highway (1932) - Mrs. Ellis
Trouble in Paradise (1932) - Woman with Wrong Handbag (uncredited)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) - James Allen's Mother
Tess of the Storm Country (1932) - Mrs. Garfield (uncredited)
Madame Butterfly (1932) - Suzuki
The Monkey's Paw (1933) - Mrs. White
Ladies They Talk About (1933) - Lefty's Landlady (uncredited)
Jennie Gerhardt (1933) - Mrs. Gerhardt
Pilgrimage (1933) - Mrs. Rogers
This Day and Age (1933) - Grace Smith
Beauty for Sale (1933) - Mrs. Lawson
Doctor Bull (1933) - Mrs. Ely, New Winton's Gossip (uncredited)
Footlight Parade (1933) - Old Maid in Elevator in 'Honeymoon Hotel' (uncredited)
The Right to Romance (1933) - First Face Lift Patient
East of Fifth Avenue (1933) - Mrs. Mary Lawton
Beloved (1934) - Mrs. Tarrant
You're Telling Me! (1934) - Mrs. Bessie Bisbee
Ready for Love (1934) - Mrs. Sarah Thompson (uncredited)
Here Is My Heart (1934) - Charity Lady (uncredited)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) - Mrs. Crisparkle (uncredited)
Straight from the Heart (1935) - Mother in Breadline
Party Wire (1935) - Grandma Kern (uncredited)
Reckless Roads (1935) - Mrs. Adams
Rose of the Rancho (1936) - Guadalupe
Paddy O'Day (1936) - Aunt Jane
The Bold Caballero (1936) - Indian woman (uncredited)
The Last Train from Madrid (1937) - Rosa Delgado (uncredited)
Angel (1937) - Flower Woman (uncredited)
Inside Story (1939) - Dora
Unmarried (1939) - Mrs. Charles
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939) - Miss Floretta Turnbull
Gone with the Wind (1939) - Bandleader's Wife (uncredited)
Brother Orchid (1940) - Scrub Woman at End (uncredited) (final film role)

References

^ Gallagher p.522
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bird, Kym (January 16, 2021). Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 242–244. ISBN 978-0-2280-0425-7. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
^ "In the Spotlight". The New York Times. August 19, 1928. p. 97. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
^ "Actress claims four different careers". The Miami Herald. January 29, 1933. p. 31. Retrieved October 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

Bibliography

Tag Gallagher. John Ford: The Man and His Films. University of California Press, 1988.

External links

Louise Carter at IMDb
Louise Carter at the Internet Broadway Database
Images (New York City Public Library)

[1] Gallagher p.522

[bsh-2] Bird, Kym (January 16, 2021). Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. pp. 242–244. ISBN 978-0-2280-0425-7. Retrieved October 25, 2022.

[3] "In the Spotlight". The New York Times. August 19, 1928. p. 97. Retrieved October 25, 2022.

[mh-4] "Actress claims four different careers". The Miami Herald. January 29, 1933. p. 31. Retrieved October 25, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.

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