Lenore Ulric

From Wikipedia Lenore Ulric July 21 1892 December 30 1970 was a star of the Broadway stage and Hollywood films of the silentfilm and early sound era Her father Franz Xavier Ulrich was a United States Army hospital steward He reportedly named his daughter Lenore due to his fondness for the Edgar Allan Poe poem The Raven She later dropped the h from her surname using the name Lenore Ulric as her acting name She worked briefly as a film actress for Essanay Studios and joined another stock company in Schenectady New York She found work in The First Man 1911 A Polished Burglar 1911 Kilmeny 1915 and The Better Woman 1915 In 1915 she went to work for Pallas Pictures starring in several pictures that survive today at the Library of Congress Lenore came to Hollywood in 1929 and appeared in Frozen Justice and South Sea Rose She signed with Fox Film Corporation to make several films with an approximate salary of 650000 Frozen Justice was directed by Allan Dwan Some of the scenes were filmed in Alaska She was successful in a supporting role in Camille which starred Greta Garbo Ulric returned to Broadway in 1940 acting in The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway and again in 1947 in a revival of Antony and Cleopatra