Fontaine La Rue

Known for ActingBorn 1890-07-18Died 1964-09-13Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico

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.Read more

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Gold from Weepah

His New York Wife

Love on the Rio Grande

Unseen Hands

The Showdown

Beyond

Exit the Vamp

Human Stuff

The Torrent

The Love Letter

The Bear Cat

Oh, Mabel Behave

The Faith Healer

A Prohibition Monkey

Flyin' Thru

A Blind Bargain

The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

The Dangerous Little Demon

The Lost Romance

Two Kinds of Love

Trigger Fingers

Daughters of Today

The Social Buccaneer

The Great Impersonation

An Adventuress

The Sins of Rosanne

The Woman Under Cover

Who Killed Walton?

The Man Beneath

Mabel Lost and Won

Cleopatsy

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

Droppington's Family Tree

Peanuts and Bullets

Love, Loot and Crash

Boots

The Secret Code

The Isle of Love

Borrowed Clothes

Did She Do Wrong?

Wronged by Mistake

Cactus Nell

His Naughty Thought

Stolen Magic

The Home Breakers