
Louise Closser Hale
Acting
Biography
Louise Closser Hale (born Louise Closser) was an American stage and screen actress, as well as a novelist, travel writer, and playwright.
Known For

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.
Duck Soup

A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Shanghai Express

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Dinner at Eight

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
Rasputin and the Empress

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance with Jerry Darrow. Renault is waiting for her in New York and will not leave her alone, so she poisons him. When detectives take her to the D.A.'s office, Jerry cooks up an alibi.
Letty Lynton

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
The Big Parade of Comedy

Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
Platinum Blonde

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.
The Barbarian

After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
Movie Crazy

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.
The White Sister

Despite loving another man, a young woman is talked into marrying a wealthy and boorish prince in order to help her financially-strapped father.
No More Orchids

Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."
Today We Live

A pregnant American nurse living in London during WWI, believing her soldier-fiance has been killed in France, marries a wealthy aristocrat so her child will have a father.
Born to Love

Young Asians in San Francisco find their love thwarted by clan warfare.
The Son-Daughter

A woman struggles to rekindle the affection of her husband.
Rebound

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

An ordinary man is confronted by gangsters who have reason to believe a treasure is buried somewhere on his property.
Captain Applejack

While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
The Man Who Played God

A newlywed discovers that she and her husband's snobby family speak different languages.
Another Language

Socialite Carol Morgan romps through the Depression and her wealth while breaking up with Bill Wade and getting back together with him.