Biography for
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Date of Birth

1 November 1904, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Date of Death

14 October 1996, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (Alzheimer's disease)

Birth Name

Laura La Plant

Height

5' 3" (1.60 m)

Mini Biography

Laura La Plante was 15 years old when she entered films as a Christie Comedy Bathing Beauty. By 1921, she had played a number of roles including a Tom Mix Western called The Big Town Round-Up (1921) for Fox and The Old Swimmin' Hole (1921) for First National. Laura, now 17, next signed with Universal, where she appeared in shorts, serials and many supporting roles. Over the next few years, she would become one of the leading stars at Universal and acted in in dramas, mysteries and comedies. Some of her more important films were the adventure Crooked Alley (1923), the comedy Sporting Youth (1924), the drama Smouldering Fires (1925) and the mystery The Cat and the Canary (1927). One of her successful comedies, Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), was directed by her husband, William A. Seiter. When sound came to Universal, she was one of the silent film stars who made the transition. She played a leading role in the sound film Show Boat (1929) and made her first all-talking picture with Hold Your Man (1929). By 1930, she decided that she had enough and left Universal, which terminated her contract. She went to England, where she would appear in a few more films over the years. Laura returned to Hollywood in 1935, where she again retired from the screen.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Spouse

Irving Asher	(1934 - 17 March 1985) (his death)
William A. Seiter	(1926 - March 1934) (divorced)

Trivia

In 1954, she appeared as a contestant on "You Bet Your Life" (1950) under the name Laura Asher. Groucho Marx was told he might recognize her, and he realized she was Laura La Plante within minutes of being introduced.

Older sister of actress Violet La Plante (later known in life as Violet Benson).

WAMPAS Baby Star of 1923.

She had two children with Irving Asher: Tony and Jill.