Description: GEORGE SANDERS IN DRAG June Caprice, born Helen Elizabeth Lawson, November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936, was a Fox silent film star. Early life and career Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson in Arlington, Massachusetts, Caprice was educated in Boston. She began her acting career in live theatre and in 1916 signed with the Fox Film Corporation. In 1916 William Fox searched to find a "second Mary Pickford." By the summer of that year he believed he had located the woman he predicted would be the best known female on the screen within six months time. The 1916 press release claimed both that she was a 17-year-old teenager, and in the same press release "just a little over 17 years of age." Her obituary in 1936 listed her age as 40, making her about 20 years of age at her discovery. Caprice's screen debut came in Caprice of the Mountains (1916). A New York Times film critic said of her, "she is young, pretty, graceful, petite, with an eloquence of gesture that augurs a bright future in the movies." Adopting the stage name June Caprice, she made sixteen films for Fox, half of which were directed by Harry F. Millarde. The two began a personal relationship and eventually married. Retirement She left the film business to begin a family, giving birth to a daughter June Elizabeth Millarde in 1922. It is believed she returned to working on stage and modeling, appearing on 1920s Coca-Cola company calendars holding a fountain glass of Coke. Early Desths In 1931 her husband died at the age of forty-six. Caprice died five years later from a heart attack in Los Angeles. She had been suffering from cancer. She was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Caprice's daughter was fourteen years old when orphaned and was raised by her grandparents on Long Island, New York. June Millarde became a cover girl known as Toni Seven. She was the heiress to an estimated $3,000,000 fortune. Actress (22 credits) 1921 The Man Who Stole the Moon June Elliott 1920 Rogues and Romance - with George Seitz Sylvia Lee 1920 In Walked Mary Mary Ann Hubbard 1919 A Damsel in Distress Maud Marsh 1919 The Love Cheat Louise Gordon 1919 Oh Boy! - based on Wodehouse Bolton musical Lou Ellen Carter 1918 Miss Innocence Dolores May 1918 Blue-Eyed Mary Mary Du Bois 1918 A Camouflage Kiss Martha Thorne 1918 The Heart of Romance - with George Bunny Eloise Jackson 1917 The Sunshine Maid 1917 Unknown 274 Dora Belton 1917 Miss U.S.A. Capitola Black 1917 Every Girl's Dream - with Dan Mason Gretchen 1917 Patsy Patsy Primmel 1917 The Small Town Girl June 1917 A Child of the Wild - with Frank Morgan June Griest 1917 A Modern Cinderella Joyce 1916 The Mischief Maker Effie Marchand 1916 The Ragged Princess -with Lee Sisters Alicia Jones 1916 Little Miss Happiness Lucy White 1916 Caprice of the Mountains Caprice Talbert Self (1 credit) 1921 Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 17-F (Documentary short) Self INSURED BOXED SHIPPING
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