Fontaine La Rue
Acting
Born 1890-07-18
Died 1964-09-13
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
45 credits
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Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies.
She was one of seven children born to Diego and Carlotta Monreal Fernandez. After immigrating to the United States in 1907, Matilda married Victor Garcia Rojas. The couple had three children, Victor Paul, Matilda Garcia, and Victoria Grace.
After the couple divorced, Matilda entered show business. She got her start on stage as a toe dancer and in musical comedy. She toured with the Trimble Musical Comedy Company in 1914 before breaking into films the following year in comedy shorts for Keystone.
She first used the name Dora Rodgers, but reinvented herself with the name Fontaine La Rue, tiring of playing vamps. On occasions she would switch between the names. Notably she appeared in the lost film, A Blind Bargain with Lon Chaney.
After a lengthy love affair with actor Nelson McDowell, Fontaine married real estate broker Wayne Hancock and retired from the screen.
The Keystone Vamp died of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on September 13, 1964, at UCLA Medical Center.
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Filmography
Acting
34 credits
Flyin' Thru
Cleopatsy
Boots
The Great Impersonation
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
Who Killed Walton?
His New York Wife
Peanuts and Bullets
Two Kinds of Love
The Man Beneath
The Sins of Rosanne
A Blind Bargain
The Bear Cat
Exit the Vamp
Human Stuff
Trigger Fingers
The Faith Healer
Cactus Nell
Beyond
Gold from Weepah
The Dangerous Little Demon
Oh, Mabel Behave
The Torrent
Unseen Hands
Love, Loot and Crash
Mabel Lost and Won
Droppington's Family Tree
The Lost Romance
Daughters of Today
His Naughty Thought
Borrowed Clothes
The Home Breakers
The Woman Under Cover
Stolen Magic
Other credits
11 credits
The Social Buccaneer
The Isle of Love
An Adventuress
The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
A Prohibition Monkey
The Secret Code
The Showdown
The Love Letter
Love on the Rio Grande
Did She Do Wrong?
Wronged by Mistake
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