Fontaine La Rue
Date of birth: 1897-12-01
Place of birth: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
Borrowed Clothes
1918-11-04
A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will t
Cactus Nell
1917-06-03
Cactus Nell
Unseen Hands
1924-05-25
A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for
Human Stuff
1920-06-28
An Eastern boy is sent to the West to run the family's sheep ranch. The presence of sheep anger near
Flyin' Thru
1925-12-01
Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father ha
The Bear Cat
1922-04-03
The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty ve
Stolen Magic
1915-11-28
A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand
An Adventuress
1920-04-10
Filmed by Fred J. Balshofer in 1918 as the anti-German war drama Over the Rhine, the project was res
Droppington's Family Tree
1915-04-11
Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a da
The Faith Healer
1921-03-13
A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love.
Boots
1919-02-16
Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, ad
The Great Impersonation
1921-10-09
When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something a
The Lost Romance
1921-05-08
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by stag
A Blind Bargain
1922-12-03
Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915-01-23
Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.
Love, Loot and Crash
1915-04-23
A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks se
The Man Beneath
1919-07-05
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland a
The Torrent
1924-08-01
Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard a
A Prohibition Monkey
1920-09-13
The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, an
Peanuts and Bullets
1915-01-12
A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a fo
The Home Breakers
1915-02-01
Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.
His Naughty Thought
1917-05-06
Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.
Beyond
1921-09-04
Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death t
The Sins of Rosanne
1920-11-07
Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she becam
Love on the Rio Grande
1925-07-25
A 1925 silent Western.
Oh, Mabel Behave
1922-06-20
Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has
The Love Letter
1923-02-09
While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shi
Did She Do Wrong?
1918-03-10
An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.
The Secret Code
1922-02-28
A lost silent Western short.
The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
1922-02-28
A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, an
Who Killed Walton?
1918-04-14
Farnum Walton, a dissipated artist, is engaged to illustrate Marian Emlen's new book and invites her
The Showdown
1923-05-14
The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.
Mabel Lost and Won
1915-06-02
Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess. When a
Wronged by Mistake
1918-02-10
Trigger Fingers
1924-11-01
Sergeant Bob Steele (Bob Custer), of the Texas Rangers, is assigned to put an end to the lawlessness
The Dangerous Little Demon
1922-03-27
Teddy Harmon, a society girl preoccupied with pleasure, is persuaded by her father's serious-minded
The Woman Under Cover
1919-09-15
When the popular Broadway star Jack Rollins tells his wife, dancer Yvonne Leclaire, that he is tired
The Isle of Love
1922-01-01
A 1922 re-edit of Fred J. Balshofer’s earlier feature—shot in 1918 as Over the Rhine and released in
Daughters of Today
1924-02-02
Mabel Vandergrift moves from the country to the city and enrolls in an upscale college. She starts t