Louise Glaum
Acting
Biography
Louise Glaum was an American actress. Known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in motion pictures at 6834 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood.
Born: September 4, 1888
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Known For
Sex
A Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
Hell's Hinges
When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.
Lucille Love: The Girl of Mystery
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios (1920) presents a fascinating glimpse into the Thomas H. Ince studios at Culver City.
Love or Justice
Promising young lawyer Jack Dunn,, becomes a victim of drugs and loses his standing in the legal world. He passes his idle hours in the slums where he meets Nan Bishop, an underworld figure. Nan's influence helps to make a man out of Dunn and with her help he breaks his dependence on drugs and is successful in obtaining a position as a criminal lawyer. Years later, they meet again in a courtroom. Nan has been falsely accused of murder and Dunn is the prosecuting attorney. Learning that Dunn's professional future depends on his winning the case, Nan pleads guilty, but, at the last minute, the real criminal is discovered and Nan is cleared of the crime. She then accepts Dunn's offer of marriage and together they look forward to a happy future.
The Darkening Trail
Yukon Ed has asked saloon owner Ruby McGraw to marry him several times, and has been turned down each time. However, she falls for Jack Sturgess, a no-account who has seduced and abandoned a poor young girl and is escaping from his father's anger. She takes up with Jack to Ed's dismay, and soon the thing that Ed feared would happen does happen.
The Leopard Woman
An epic of passion, intrigue, and espionage set in the African Jungle.
The Aryan
Steve Denton, rich from years of prospecting, is fleeced by the citizens of Yellow Ridge. In his rage, he kidnaps the woman most responsible and makes her his slave in a desert hideaway.
The Return of Draw Egan
A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
The Camera Speaks
In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Nina Olmstead
as Grace Merrill
as Connie MacNair
as Natalie Storm
as Madame - the Leopard Woman
as Mary Norwood
as Adrienne Renault
as Princess Sonia / Sonia, her daughter
as Mignon
as Mary Thorne
as Alouette DeLarme
as Maargery Harding
as Lola Dexter
as Neysa von Igel / Frau Meyer
as Viola Strathmore
as Golden Rule Kate
as Lola Montrose
as Nan Bishop
as Honore Zonlay
as Annette Loti
as Marie Chaumontel
as Poppy
as Leila Aradella
as Daisy Flores
as Viola Bretagne, 'The Moth'
as Trixie, 'the Firefly'
as Dolly
as Miladi Winter
as Thelma Iverson
as Kitty Molloy
as Anita
as Mlle. Poppea
as Miss Arnold
as Whalen's Confederate
as Trixie
as Rosa Gonzales
as Bubbles
as Fanny
as Normah, a Slave Girl
as Mrs. Barr
as Yvette
as Nell Saunders
as Anne
as Henry's Wife
as Elizabeth - Lawrence's Sweetheart
as Mary Stanley - Billy's Sweetheart
as Priscilla - the Village Girl
as Marion
as Virginia Chester
as Mary - the Minister's Daughter
as Louise
as Louise Canby
as Marcia Allen
as Jane Carston
as Mary Lemon - Suffragette
as Mary Gordon - the Ranchman's Daughter