Word: ulric
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Sea Rose (Fox). As a French girl brought up in the South Seas and taken to New England by a skipper who marries her for her money, Lenore Ulric talks the same baby gutturals she used a couple of weeks ago in Frozen Justice, but the meaning of her husky drawling voice does not depend on words and is the same in any language. The story is an aimless, overkeyed triangle. Best shot: a simple-minded jazzbo having a fit when checked in his efforts to get near the South Sea Rose...
Frozen Justice (Fox). Melodramas like this, arranged against backgrounds of snow and wintry seas, have been fine vehicles for that smart dog, Rin Tin Tin. Lenore Ulric is nicer to look at than
...talents. After a white trader has persuaded her to run away from her Eskimo husband she sings for a while in a ginmill in Nome, Alaska. The girls in the ginmill pick the customers' pockets but speak with horror of a friend of theirs caught smoking. They dislike Ulric because she is a half-caste trying to push her way "to white man's country, where Talu's white blood forever calls her." The local color weighing down Frozen Justice is interesting in the ginmill. Ulric's beautiful figure and husky voice go over well...
Like many a young woman now earning a good living in the show business, Lenore Ulric never had much luck until she went to work for David Belasco. Her father was a steward in an army hospital in Milwaukee. She was born in New Ulm, Minn. She ran away from the 5th grade to be a cigaret girl in a stock-company Carmen. She told Belasco where she had played-Chicago, Grand Rapids, Schenectady. She had walked into the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan early one morning, answering an advertisement for supers. She looked tired and sick but she managed...
...Lenore Ulric, actress, heard last week in Hollywood that Sidney Blackmer, her leading man last winter in the Belasco production Mima, had announced that he and she got married on May 23 at her Harmon, N. Y., home. Emphatically she declined to confirm the marriage, refused to talk about it. Gilda Gray, mentioned by Actor Blackmer as a witness, drawled to newspaper men: "I cannot recall any such wedding...