Louise Closser Hale
Acting
Biography
Louise Closser Hale (born Louise Closser) was an American stage and screen actress, as well as a novelist, travel writer, and playwright.
Born: October 9, 1872
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Known For
Duck Soup
Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
The Man Who Played God
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
Shanghai Express
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
The Son-Daughter
Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
Devotion
A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves.
Letty Lynton
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
No More Orchids
Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
Dinner at Eight
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Platinum Blonde
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Faithless
Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.
Filmography
as Hattie Loomis in 'Dinner at Eight' (arch. footage) (uncredited)
as Hattie Loomis
as Reception Guest (uncredited)
as Mother Hallam
as Militza Brooska
as Powers
as Mina Bernardo
as Applegate
as Toy Yah
as Lazy Spoiled Woman (uncredited)
as Grandma Holt
as First Landlady
as Mrs. Kitterman
as Aunt Miranda
as Mrs. Warburton
as Miranda, Letty's Maid
as Mrs. (Ma) Smith
as Mrs. Haggerty
as Florence Royle
as Mrs. Schuyler
as Mrs. Mortimer
as Mrs. Jaffrey
as Miss Pritchard
as Lady Ponsonby
as Aunt Agatha
as Miss Eden
as Mrs. Benson
as Mother
as Cora Sabbot
as Mrs. Ramsay