Laska Winter

{{short description|American actress}}

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| name = Laska Winter

| image = Laska Winters, silent film actress (SAYRE 10450).jpg

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| caption = Winter in 1924

| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|08|28}}

| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1980|08|08|1905|08|28}}

| death_place = South Pasadena, California, U.S.

| othername = Winter Blossom

| occupation = Actress

| yearsactive = 1921–1932 (film)

| spouse = James T. O'Donohoe, 1924-1928 (his death)
James Henry Hulse, ? - April 16, 1922 (his death, 1 child)
Alan Weaver Hazelton, ? - August 14, 1974) (his death)

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Laska Winter (August 28, 1905 – August 8, 1980) was an American film actress active during the silent and early sound era.Munden p.401 She was also known by the stage name Winter Blossom. Although she often played exotic roles, Winter was not Asian or Pacific Islander but of mixed French, Spanish, Irish, and German descent.{{cite book |last1=California |first1=Jenny Cho and the Chinese Historical Society of Southern |title=Chinese in Hollywood |date=2013 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-0-7385-9973-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3AbAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Laska+Winter%22&pg=PA18 |page=18|accessdate=January 8, 2020 |language=en}}

Filmography

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Bibliography

  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.