Lenore (Leonore) Ulric
Lenore (sometimes misspelled as Leonore) Ulrich was
born July 21, 1892 in New Ulm, MN. She later changed the spelling
to Ulric for the stage. While still a schoolgirl, she work in
a stock company in Milwaukee, WI, and later stock companies in
Grand Rapids, MI, and Chicago, IL. She did work briefly for Essanay
in 1911-12, but continued her stage work until 1915 when she six
features and one short in a three-year period for such companies
as Pallas Pictures, the Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company, Balboa
Amusement Company and Triumph Films. She gave up films and returned
to the stage. For most of the rest of the silent era, she worked
for David Belasco and toured in several successes for him. Her
only departure from the stage at this time as her appearance in
the 1923 film "Tiger Rose," one of her stage successes
that was produced by Warner Brothers. She didn't return to films
until 1929 when she signed with Fox. She only made a handful of
films, two in 1929, one in 1936 (supporting Greta Garbo in "Camille"),
three in 1946 and a final film appearance in 1947. She continued
acting on the stage during these years, though, returning to Broadway
in Ernest Hemingway's "The Fifth Column" in 1940. She
was married to actor Sidney Blackmer from 1928-1939. She died
of heart failure n Orangeburg, NY, December 30, 1970.
Selected films of this star available for viewing:
Tiger
Rose (1923)
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