Laura La Plante
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Publicity photo of La Plante from Stars of the Photoplay (1924)
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| Born |
Laura LaPlant November 1, 1904 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | October 14, 1996 (aged 91) Woodland Hills, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1921–1934 |
| Spouse(s) |
William A. Seiter (m.1926–1934; divorced) Irving Asher (m.1934–1985; his death); 2 children |
Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996) was an American actress, known for her work in silent film.
Born as Laura LaPlant, La Plante made her acting debut at the age of 15, and in 1923 was named as one of the year's WAMPAS Baby Stars. During the 1920s she appeared in more than sixty films. Among her early film appearances were Big Town Round-Up (1921), with cowboy star Tom Mix, the serials Perils of the Yukon (1922) and Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923), and several Western movies with Hoot Gibson.
The majority of her films (i.e. from 1921 to 1930) were made for Universal Pictures. During this period she was the studio's most popular star, "an accomplishment duplicated only by Deanna Durbin years later", and almost always enjoyed top billing. One of her earliest surviving films is Smouldering Fires (1925), directed by Clarence Brown and costarring Pauline Frederick. Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic The Cat and the Canary (1927), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), with Reginald Denny, the part-talkie The Love Trap (1929), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-talkie film version of Show Boat (1929), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber.
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