Marguerite De La Motte
Date of birth: 1902-06-22
Place of birth: Duluth, Minnesota, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Peggy De La Motte, Marguerite Beatrice De La Motte
Biography
Marguerite De La Motte (June 22, 1902 – March 10, 1950) was an American film actress, most notably of the silent film era. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, De La Motte was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De La Motte. She was a 1917 graduate of the Egan School of drama, music, and dancing. De La Motte began her entertainment career studying ballet under Anna Pavlova. In 1919, she became the dance star of Sid Grauman on the stage of his theater. In 1918, at the age of 16, she made her screen debut in the Douglas Fairbanks-directed romantic comedy film Arizona. In 1920, both of her parents died, her mother in January in an automobile accident and her father in August from heart disease. Film producer J.L. Frothingham assumed guardianship of her and her younger brother. De La Motte spent the 1920s appearing in numerous films, often cast by Douglas Fairbanks to play opposite him in swashbuckling adventure films such as 1920's The Mark of Zorro and The Three Musketeers. She developed a close friendship with Fairbanks and his wife, actress Mary Pickford. Her career as an actress slowed dramatically at the end of the silent film era of the 1920s. She did continue acting in bit parts through the sound era and made her final appearance in the 1942 film Overland Mail opposite both Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr., as well as Lon Chaney Jr. After her film career ended, De La Motte worked as an inspector in a southern California war plant during World War II. Later she came to San Francisco, California, where she worked in the Red Cross office. On February 8, 1960, De La Motte was awarded a star in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6902 Hollywood Blvd., in Hollywood, California.
Movie Credits
The Broken Gate
1920-12-01
Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an
Josselyn's Wife
1919-05-05
Bessie Barriscale and Nigel Barrie play Ellen and Gibbs Josselyn, a young married couple who have sp
The Mark of Zorro
1920-12-05
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Z
Shadows
1922-11-10
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deepl
The Beloved Brute
1924-11-09
A Western melodrama about brothers, separated in early childhood, who wound up as opponents in a sid
A Sage Brush Hamlet
1919-08-03
Larry Lang is out to get desperado Claude Dutton (Ed Piel), the man who killed his father, which is
The Three Musketeers
1921-08-28
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends
The Iron Mask
1929-02-21
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when th
The U.P. Trail
1920-11-01
Civil engineer Warren Neale rescues a badly wounded Allie Lee after her family is killed in an India
Shattered Idols
1922-02-06
This exotic adventure drama was based on the novel, The Daughter of Brahma, and went through at leas
A Woman's Man
1934-02-06
A temperamental movie star storms off the set of her latest picture in order to carry on a fling wit
The Pagan God
1919-08-04
Bruce Winthrop, disguised as a clerk in the American consulate near the Mongolian border, is actuall
Montmartre Rose
1929-04-01
A respectable Paris jeweller becomes engaged to a celebrated performer of the Montmartre cafes.
The Final Extra
1927-02-07
The alert atmosphere of a large-city newspaper office and its giant presses combines with the back-s
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923-02-19
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
The Sagebrusher
1920-01-01
A friend of a Montana sagebrusher advertises for a potential wife for him.
The Man Who Returned to Life
1942-02-05
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-
Shadow Ranch
1930-09-27
Summoned to Shadow Ranch by his friend Ranny Williams, Sim Baldwin arrives to find Ranny has been am
A Man of Action
1923-06-03
Wealthy Bruce MacAllister, goaded by his fiancée, Helen, into proving that he is a man of action rat
Those Who Dare
1924-11-15
Captain Manning, a seasoned salt, is ordered to remove his battered ship, the Swallow, from the town
Reg'lar Fellers
1941-09-05
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with bui
In Wrong
1919-10-31
Johnny Spivins adores Milly Fields, but since he's only an errand boy at the local grocery, he can't
The Unknown Soldier
1926-05-29
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Overland Mail
1942-09-22
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep be
The Hope
1920-09-07
An upper class melodrama.
Wandering Daughters
1923-07-01
The daughter of straitlaced parents, Bessie Bowden is attracted to the social life of the fast set a
Red Dice
1926-03-14
This unusual melodrama with comic touches was based on Octavus Roy Cohen's novel The Iron Chance. Al
Pals in Paradise
1926-11-22
Bill Harvey discovers a lost mine, rich with gold. Geraldine "Jerry" Howard has the claim to it left
The Clean Heart
1924-09-15
Newspaper editor and successful novelist Philip Wriford suffers a mental breakdown from overwork and
The Girl Who Wouldn't Work
1925-08-18
Mary Hale hates her job in a department store, and when wealthy Gordon Kent comes around, she flirts
Children of the Whirlwind
1925-08-15
A recent parolee tries to go straight with the help of a friendly artist, but his old gang, his swee
Fifth Avenue
1926-01-24
When her cotton crop is burned, Barbara Pelham, a beautiful southern girl, comes to New York to find
Daughters Who Pay
1925-05-10
Immediately after the October revolution, in Russia, stir unrest and propaganda against the Governme
Scars of Jealousy
1923-03-05
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Cheaper to Marry
1925-02-09
Dick Tyler is the junior partner in the law firm of Knight and Tyler. He tries to convince his partn
Richard the Lion-Hearted
1923-10-15
Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the pr
Trumpet Island
1920-09-01
Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve. Who had been forced to marry anot
The Nut
1921-03-06
Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to h
What a Wife Learned
1923-01-28
A novelist's success causes a rift between her and her rancher husband.
Held by the Law
1927-04-10
East of Broadway
1924-11-23
East Side boy Peter Mullaney longs to become a policeman. He goes to the training school but is turn
The Last Frontier
1926-08-16
Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his
The People vs. Nancy Preston
1925-11-01
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Gerald Cranston's Lady
1924-10-19
Gerald Cranston, a successful financier and industrialist who worked his way up through the ranks, e
In Love with Love
1924-12-28
Ann Jordan, flirtatious and pampered daughter of a wealthy contractor, is engaged to Robert Metcalf,
Desire
1923-10-01
Society children Madalyn Harlan and Bob Elkins separate the day they are to be married. Madalyn marr
The Ten Dollar Raise
1921-06-26
A lowly office worker suffers the abuses of his cruel boss, until fate gives him enough wealth to bu
The Jilt
1922-11-26
In 1919 Virginia, Rose Trenton mistakes pity for love and agrees to marry George Prothero, who was b
Ragtime
1927-09-01
The romance between a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and a high society girl.
The Kid Sister
1927-07-05
Mary Hall (Ann Christy) forsakes the quiet life of her small-town home and joins her chorus-girl sis
For a Woman's Honor
1919-09-14
British India Medical Corps Captain Clyde Mannering returns to England to marry Helen Rutherford, bu
Just Like a Woman
1923-03-18
After living in a boarding school for some years, Peggy Dean accepts the invitation of her Aunts Abi