Alice Terry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alice Terry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Alice Frances Taaffe (July 29, 1900 â€" December 22, 1987), known

professionally as Alice Terry, was an American film actress and

director. She began her career during the silent film era, appearing

in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. While Terry's trademark

look was her blonde hair, she was actually a brunette, and put on her

first blonde wig in Hearts Are Trumps (1920) to look different from

Francelia Billington, the other actress in the film. Terry played

several different characters in the 1916 anti-war film Civilization,

co-directed by Thomas H. Ince and Reginald Barker. Alice wore the

blonde wig again in her most acclaimed role as "Marguerite" in film

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and kept the wig for any

future roles. In 1925 her husband Rex Ingram co-directed Ben-Hur,

filming parts of it in Italy. The two decided to move to the French

Riviera, where they set up a small studio in Nice and made several

films on location in North Africa, Spain, and Italy for MGM and

others. In 1933, Terry made her last film appearance in Baroud, which

she also co-directed with husband.Alice Frances Taaffe was born in

Vincennes, Indiana, on July 29, 1900, the daughter of Matthew Taaffe

(1868â€"1907) and Ella Isadore Thorn (1864â€"1935). She had a sister,

Edna (born 1892) and a brother, Robert (born 1893).She made her film

debut in 1916 in Not My Sister, opposite Bessie Barriscale and William

Desmond Taylor.
Alice Terry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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