Fontaine La Rue

Fontaine La Rue

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.

  • Title: Fontaine La Rue
  • Popularity: 1.137
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1897-12-01
  • Place of Birth: Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
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Fontaine La Rue Movies

  • 1918
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    Borrowed Clothes

    Borrowed Clothes

    1 1918 HD

    A pretty but poor girl leaves the young boy who loves her for a rich playboy who she believes will take care of her, but the wealthy cad has other...

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  • 1917
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    Cactus Nell

    Cactus Nell

    1 1917 HD

    Cactus Nell

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  • 1924
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    Unseen Hands

    Unseen Hands

    1 1924 HD

    A wealthy mine owner's wife gets him to hire Jean Scholast, a footloose adventurer, as a reward for saving her. Unbeknown to the wife, Scholast is a...

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  • 1920
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    Human Stuff

    Human Stuff

    1 1920 HD

    An Eastern boy is sent to the West to run the family's sheep ranch. The presence of sheep anger nearby cattlemen, who don't want to share their...

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  • 1925
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    Flyin' Thru

    Flyin' Thru

    1 1925 HD

    Lieutenant Willis returns home from France, where he was an aviation ace, to find that his father has been falsely jailed for the murder of Judson...

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  • 1922
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    The Bear Cat

    The Bear Cat

    1 1922 HD

    The Bearcat, alias The Singin' Kid, crosses the Rio Grande into Three Pines, singing bloodthirsty verses, but in spite of these, he makes friends...

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  • 1915
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    Stolen Magic

    Stolen Magic

    1 1915 HD

    A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

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  • 1920
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    The Isle of Love

    The Isle of Love

    5 1920 HD

    The original film featured the then unknown Rudolph Valentino. To cash in on his rise to stardom, it was re-edited to feature more of him. Various...

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  • 1915
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    Droppington's Family Tree

    Droppington's Family Tree

    5 1915 HD

    Pa Droppington sneaks out of the house to go to the theatre. Amid comic capers he is smitten by a dancer. Meanwhile his son is telling Ma that he's...

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  • 1921
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    The Faith Healer

    The Faith Healer

    1 1921 HD

    A traveling preacher has, through his faith, the power to heal, but loses it when he falls in love. Considered lost.

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  • 1919
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    Boots

    Boots

    1 1919 HD

    Boots is a young servant girl who polishes shoes in an English inn. She is an incurable romantic, addicted to melodramatic stories of love and...

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  • 1921
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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    1 1921 HD

    When the man calling himself Everard Dominey returns home, his loved ones recognize that something about him is different. But with Europe racing...

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  • 1921
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    The Lost Romance

    The Lost Romance

    1 1921 HD

    Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the...

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  • 1922
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    A Blind Bargain

    A Blind Bargain

    6 1922 HD

    Chaney plays two roles: mad scientist Arthur Lamb and Lamb's "experiment", known only as the Ape Man. This hideous creature was the result of Lamb's...

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  • 1915
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    Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

    Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

    5.9 1915 HD

    Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.

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  • 1915
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    Love, Loot and Crash

    Love, Loot and Crash

    4.7 1915 HD

    A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and...

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  • 1919
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    The Man Beneath

    The Man Beneath

    6 1919 HD

    The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister...

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  • 1924
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    The Torrent

    The Torrent

    1 1924 HD

    Hale Garrison, a big game hunter returning from safari in Africa, meets Gloria Manner on shipboard and falls in love with her.

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  • 1920
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    A Prohibition Monkey

    A Prohibition Monkey

    1 1920 HD

    The town of Beer Bottle Bend is so tough that the babies chew tobacco. It is run in a high, wide, and handsome manner by the owner of Riley's Saloon....

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  • 1915
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    Peanuts and Bullets

    Peanuts and Bullets

    5 1915 HD

    A very young Charley Chase is a starving artist. He does not have much luck stealing fruit from a food vendor's cart. He cannot escape from his...

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  • 1915
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    The Home Breakers

    The Home Breakers

    1 1915 HD

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

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  • 1917
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    His Naughty Thought

    His Naughty Thought

    1 1917 HD

    Café ownder Mack Swain goes gaga over a gal.

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  • 1920
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    The Sins of Rosanne

    The Sins of Rosanne

    1 1920 HD

    Roseanne (Ethel Clayton) has grown up near some diamond mines in South Africa. As a child, she became ill and a Malay nurse, Rachel Bangat (Fontaine...

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  • 1921
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    Beyond

    Beyond

    1 1921 HD

    Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her...

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  • 1925
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    Love on the Rio Grande

    Love on the Rio Grande

    1 1925 HD

    A 1925 silent Western.

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  • 1922
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    Oh, Mabel Behave

    Oh, Mabel Behave

    1 1922 HD

    Squire Peachem (Ford Sterling) wants to marry the innkeeper's daughter (Normand). Since Peachem has a hefty mortgage on the inn, he thinks he can use...

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  • 1923
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    The Love Letter

    The Love Letter

    1 1923 HD

    While working in an overall factory Mary Ann McKee sends mash notes in the overalls prepared for shipment. She is involved in a robbery perpetrated...

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  • 1918
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    Did She Do Wrong?

    Did She Do Wrong?

    1 1918 HD

    An industrious criminal plays his game so crookedly that he "double crosses" himself.

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  • 1922
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    The Secret Code

    The Secret Code

    1 1922 HD

    A lost silent Western short.

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  • 1922
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    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy

    1 1922 HD

    A series of four 2-reelers based on the stories of George Bronson Howard, directed by Duke Worne, and starring Roy Stewart in the title role; each...

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  • 1918
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    Who Killed Walton?

    Who Killed Walton?

    1 1918 HD

    Farnum Walton, a dissipated artist, is engaged to illustrate Marian Emlen's new book and invites her to a disreputable restaurant, ostensibly to...

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  • 1923
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    The Showdown

    The Showdown

    1 1923 HD

    The plot of this silent western short is unknown and it is presumably lost.

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