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Lucille Carlisle was born Ida Lucille White in Galesburg, Illinois. After her father abandoned the family her mother opened a boarding house in Spokane, Washington. At the age of sixteen Lucille was briefly married. Soon after she she won a beauty contest organized by Photoplay Magazine. She moved to New York City and began her career on Broadway as Lucille Zintheo. Later she changed her stage name Lucille Carlisle. In 1918 she was signed by Vitagraph Pictures and was cast in the Larry Semon comedy Boodle and Bandits. Larry and Lucille would make more than a twenty movies together including The Simple Life and A Pair of Kings. They became a popular onscreen team while off screen they had a tempestuous romance. Lucille was unhappy with the shape of her nose and underwent numerous plastic surgeries.
In 1922 she and Larry were secretly married. Later that year Lucille suffered a nervous breakdown. She recovered but her marriage to Larry ended in divorce. In 1923 she auditioned for the lead in The Hunchback of Notre Dame but Patsy Ruth Miller got the part. Lucille developed a drinking problem and was often under a doctor's care for her nerves. She decided to stop acting and married businessman Leland H. Millikin in 1930. Lucille, who never had children, adopted her niece when her sister was unable to raise her. During World War 2 she made several radio appearances. Lucille died on October 19, 1958 due to a liver disorder. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Most Popular Lucille Carlisle Trailers
Total trailers found: 20
03 May 1920
Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.
06 July 1919
Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.
05 October 1919
Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.
16 February 1919
Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.
01 November 1920
Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.
10 June 1922
A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.
28 March 1920
Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!
03 September 1922
Comedy on the golf links.
19 March 1922
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
14 April 1919
Larry Semon goes out west.
26 May 1919
Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail.
04 August 1919
The Simple Life is a silent comedy short.
18 May 1919
Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.
07 September 1919
Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.
01 December 1919
The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of.
08 January 1921
The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog.
01 December 1919
Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress.
09 January 1923
Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window.
08 December 1922
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.
