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Adele DeGarde

{{short description|American actress}}

{{Infobox person

|image = Adele De Garde1.jpg

|imagesize = 180px

|caption = c. 1909

|birth_name = Adelaide De Gard

|birth_date = May 3, 1899

|birth_place = Brooklyn, New York

|death_date = November 1972 (aged 73)

|death_place = Brooklyn, New York

|spouse = Harry Jespersen

|other_names = Adele De Garde

|occupation = Actor

|yearsactive = 1908–1918

}}

Adele DeGarde (born Adelaide De Gard, also credited Adele De Garde; May 3, 1899 – November 1972){{cite web|url=http://www.younghollywoodhof.com/1900.html|title=Profile of Adele DeGarde|work=Young Hollywood Hall of Fame|accessdate=2011-12-30}} was an American silent film actress, who performed in at least 114 productions between 1908 and 1918. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she initially worked in uncredited parts under the direction of D. W. Griffith at Biograph Studios in Manhattan and later became a screen star for Vitagraph Studios, often specializing in ingénue roles.[https://archive.org/details/motionpicturestu00moti/page/90/mode/2up "Motion Picture Studio Directory"], entry for Adele DeGarde under "Actresses—Ingenues", Motion Picture News (New York, N.Y.), 21 October 1916, p. 90. Internet Archive, San Francisco, California. Retrieved 7 September 2021.

Career

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In 1908, when pictures were looked at with a bit of apprehension, DeGarde (at the age of eight) began to appear in Vitagraph Studios. And DeGarde and her little pal, Kenneth Casey, were the mischievous, spoiled, or ill-treated children around whom centered many a melodramatic plot. As new stars joined the Vitagraph forces, DeGarde and Kenneth played with them. Many a picture of the "two-generation" or "from-child-to-woman" type would open with DeGarde as its child heroine and finish with Leah Baird, Edith Storey, or Dorothy Kelly rounding out the plot when the child had grown up.

As the years grew, so did DeGarde, until finally she grew too large for little-girl-before-growing-up parts, and, with many sighs, her directors were forced to "pass her up" and cast anxious glances around for another promising child. Loath to part with their two clever little players, the company produced some exceedingly funny pictures enacted entirely by children about fourteen or fifteen. These comedies proved extremely popular, because they were so typical of children at that age.

When Vitagraph was casting Within the Law, they were a trifle at a loss as to whom they should give the part of Aggie Lynch, a character on whom all the comedy relief of the play was dependent. After a careful study of the part, it was determined that DeGarde should have it. Press critics had nothing but lavish praise for her performance as Lynch and pronounced it "a huge success".{{cite news|date=May 1918 |work=Motion Picture Magazine|title="Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?" "I'm Going A-Filming", DeGarde Said}} (Note: Out of copyright)

In 1939, she attended an Old Home Week at Ohrbach's in New York with other movie actors such as Mae Murray and June Elvidge.{{cite news |title=none|agency=Associated Press |date=March 25, 1939 |work=Reno Evening Gazette}}

Reviews for ''Within the Law''

  • Variety: "Adele DeGarde as Aggie Lynch, which in reality is nothing more than a comedy foil for the lead, had something on the star, judging from the impression she left on the minds of the audience."{{cite news |title=Review for Within the Law |work=Variety |date=May 4, 1917}}
  • Moving Picture World: "Adele DeGarde as Aggie Lynch must be credited with one of the best performances in the picture. In a character easy to overplay she strikes just the right note, and her amusing unmorality [sic] is always without offense."{{cite news |title=Review for Within the Law |work=Moving Picture World |date=May 19, 1917}}{{Clear}}

Filmography

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Image:Adele de garde.jpg

References

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External links

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  • {{IMDb name|id=0214651|name=Adele DeGarde}}
  • [http://www.welcometosilentmovies.com/features/adele/adele_de_garde.htm Adele De Garde: A Brief Biography] at Welcome to Silent Movies

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Category:1899 births

Category:1972 deaths

Category:American silent film actresses

Category:American child actresses

Category:American film actresses

Category:Actresses from Brooklyn

Category:20th-century American actresses