Fontaine La Rue

Born: 1897-12-01

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.


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Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

as 1st Street Crowd Participant (uncredited)
Released: 1915-01-23

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

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The Isle of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1920-04-10

The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to...

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A Prohibition Monkey

as uncredited
Released: 1920-09-13

The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high,...

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The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

as uncredited
Released: 1922-02-28

A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke...

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Mabel Lost and Won

as Mabel's Rival
Released: 1915-06-02

Mabel has just gotten engaged during a housewarming party of which her mother is the hostess....

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The Man Beneath

as Countess Petite Florence
Released: 1919-07-05

The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits...

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Peanuts and Bullets

as The Maid They All Love
Released: 1915-01-12

A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from...

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The Love Letter

as uncredited
Released: 1923-02-09

While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for...

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Human Stuff

as Boka
Released: 1920-06-28

An Eastern boy is sent to the West to run the family's sheep ranch. The presence of sheep anger...

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The Great Impersonation

as Princess Eiderstrom
Released: 1921-10-09

When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that...

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The Lost Romance

as Elizabeth Erskine
Released: 1921-05-08

Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by...

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Love, Loot and Crash

as Mary, The Banker's Daughter
Released: 1915-04-23

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of...

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Boots

as Mme. De Valdee
Released: 1919-02-16

Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable...

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Cactus Nell

as The Gent's Accomplice
Released: 1917-06-03

Cactus Nell

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Oh, Mabel Behave

as The Barmaid
Released: 1922-06-20

Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem...

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Stolen Magic

as Secondary Supporting Role
Released: 1915-11-28

A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

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Beyond

as Mrs. Langley
Released: 1921-09-04

Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after...

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Borrowed Clothes

as Rita Morris (as Fontine La Rue)
Released: 1918-11-04

A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes...

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A Blind Bargain

as Mrs. Lamb
Released: 1922-12-03

Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape...

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The Bear Cat

as Mary Lang
Released: 1922-04-03

The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing...

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The Sins of Rosanne

as Rachel Bangat
Released: 1920-11-07

Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she...

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Unseen Hands

as Madame Le Quintrec
Released: 1924-05-25

A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward...

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The Home Breakers

as Mts. Walrus
Released: 1915-02-01

Bankers Mack Swain & Chester Conklin courting each other's wives.

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Love on the Rio Grande

as uncredited
Released: 1925-07-25

A 1925 silent Western.

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