Louise Huff

Louise Huff was an American actor of the silent film era.

She began her acting career at the age of 15 and toured in productions of Ben-Hur and Graustark. She made her motion picture debut in 1913 with In the Bishop's Carriage and Caprice. Louise joined Lubin Studios in 1913 where she worked with actor and director Edgar Jones. She married Jones in 1914 and they had a daughter, Mary Louise in 1915. In 1916 she secured the ingenue role opposite Jack Pickford in the Booth Tarkington comedy Seventeen.

Huff was featured in motion pictures produced by Famous Players–Lasky and Paramount Pictures, and continued in films until 1922. Her later silent films included roles in Great Expectations (1917), Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918), Oh, You Women! (1919), Disraeli (1921) and her final film, The Seventh Day (1922). She appeared in the Broadway productions of Mary the Third (1923) and The New Englander (1924).

She married Edwin A. Stillman in 1920 and had two more children, William and Nancy. Stillman was president of Watson-Stillman, manufacturers of hydraulic machinery. In her later years, Louise resided at 155 East 72nd Street in New York and was a director of the Friends of the Theater and Music Collection at the Museum of the City of New York. She died in New York's Doctors Hospital on August 22, 1973. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources

• "Louise Huff." Wikipedia, revision of 15 September 2023. < link > Accessed 6 December 2023.

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• Residence: 1900 - Militia District 668, Lower Town Columbus city Ward 5, Muscogee, Georgia, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Manhattan Ward 12, New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1920 - Manhattan Assembly District 10, New York, New York, United States
• Residence: 1930 - Manhattan (Districts 501-750), Manhattan, New York
• Residence: 1935 - New York City, , New York
• Residence: 1940 - Chester Township, Morris, New Jersey
• Residence: 1969 - New York City, New York, United States
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