Silent film actress, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. She acted briefly in stock companies and then in Hollywood as an extra. Following the creation of the Hollywood studio machine, she was assigned her new name, billed as the daughter of an Eastern potentate, and turned into an overnight star in A Fool There Was (1915). She received her nickname because of her screen portrayal of exotic man-hungry women, her famous line Kiss me, my fool! (delivered in subtitles), and the offscreen image she cultivated (such as giving interviews while stroking a snake). She made some 40 more silent movies, mostly by 1919, when she went to New York to become a Broadway actress. Handicapped by her reputation, she was forced to return to Hollywood, where she found tastes had changed. After a few unsuccessful movies, she retired in 1926.
| Year | No. | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 1 | The Stain | Gang moll |
| 1915 | 2 | A Fool There Was | The Vamp |
| 3 | The Kreutzer Sonata | Celia Friedlander | |
| 4 | The Clemenceau Case | Iza | |
| 5 | The Devil's Daughter | La Gioconda | |
| 6 | The Two Orphans | Henriette | |
| 7 | Lady Audley's Secret | Helen Talboys | |
| 8 | Sin | Rosa | |
| 9 | Carmen | Carmen | |
| 10 | The Galley Slave | Francesca Brabaut | |
| 11 | Destruction | Fernade | |
| 1916 | 12 | The Serpent | Vania Lazar |
| 13 | Gold and the Woman | Theresa Decordova | |
| 14 | The Eternal Sappho | Laura Bruffins | |
| 15 | East Lynne | Lady Isabel Carlisle | |
| 16 | Under Two Flags | Cigarette | |
| 17 | Her Double Life | Mary Doone | |
| 18 | Romeo and Juliet | Juliet | |
| 19 | The Vixen | Elsie Drummond | |
| 1917 | 20 | The Rose of Blood | Lisza Tapenka |
| 21 | The Darling of Paris | Esmaralda | |
| 22 | The Tiger Woman | Princess Petrovitch | |
| 23 | Her Greatest Love | Hazel | |
| 24 | Heart and Soul | Jess | |
| 25 | Camille | Marguerite Gauthier | |
| 26 | Cleopatra | Cleopatra | |
| 27 | Madame Du Barry | Jeanne Vaubernier | |
| 1918 | 28 | When a Woman Sins | Lilian Marchard/Poppea |
| 29 | Under the Yoke | Maria Valverda | |
| 30 | The She Devil | Lorette | |
| 31 | The Forbidden Path | Mary Lynde | |
| 32 | The Soul of Buddha | Priestess | |
| 33 | Salome | Salome | |
| 1919 | 34 | The Siren's Song | Marie Bernais |
| 35 | The Lure of Ambition | Olga Dolan | |
| 36 | The Light | Blanchette Dumond, aka Madame Lefresne | |
| 37 | When Men Desire | Marie Lohr | |
| 38 | A Woman There Was | Princess Zara | |
| 39 | Kathleen Mavourneen | Kathleen Cavanagh | |
| 40 | La Belle Russe | Fleurett Sackton | |
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| 1925 | 41 | The Unchastened Woman | Caroline Knollys |
| 1926 | 42 | Madame Mystery | Madame Mysterieux |
| 43 | 45 Minutes from Hollywood | Herself |
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