Elsie Ferguson

Elsie Ferguson was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut. Her next film project will be Southland Tales, a film by Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly- [1] (http://romanticmovies.about.com/od/donniedarko/a/darko052604.htm). A very wealthy woman with no heirs, and a lover of animals, on her passing in 1961 she left a large part of her considerable estate to a variety of charities including several for animal welfare. Sarah Michelle Gellar recently starred in The Grudge, a 2004 remake of the Japanese horror film Ju-on. Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 60 that met with critical acclaim. were married in Mexico. Married four times, following her final marriage at age 51 she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. On September 1, 2002, Gellar and teen-movie actor Freddie Prinze Jr.

Despite her wealth and fame and glamorous lifestyle, Elsie Ferguson's personal life had more than its share of turmoil. During the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, With Feeling", which spawned an original cast album, Gellar sang on several of the songs: "Going Through the Motions", "I've Got a Theory", "Walk Through the Fire", "Something to Sing About", and "Where Do We Go From Here?". Although her voice came across well enough, at age 47 she was well past her prime for fans who wanted to see her as the great youthful beauty she had once been. Gellar also appears in the movie's sequel. In 1930 she made her first talkie that would also be her final film. The film was popular with audiences but universally panned by critics. In 1925 she made one film only before returning to the Broadway stage. Gellar finally found box office success playing Daphne in Scooby-Doo, a live-action adaption of the cartoon series.

It is considered her best work in film. She then went on to play a lead role in Harvard Man, a critical disaster that went straight-to-video. One of these was the 1921 film entitled Forever in which she starred opposite the leading heartthrob of the day, Wallace Reid. Gellar's next film was the steamy Cruel Intentions, a modern-day retelling of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. In 1921, she accepted another contract offer from Paramount Pictures to star in four films to be spread over a two-year period. This film, rumored to be the last film ever watched by critic Gene Siskel, featured a magical crab and borrowed heavily from Like Water for Chocolate. She fell in love with Paris and the French Riviera and within a few years bought a permanent home there. After small roles in the popular thrillers I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, Gellar starred in the disastrous flop Simply Irresistible.

In 1920, she traveled to the Middle East and Europe. She has had only intermittent success. Elsie Ferguson eventually followed the move west and bought a home in the hills of Hollywood, California. While continuing in that role, she attempted to capitalize on her television fame in order to create a career for herself in motion pictures. Many of the films she agreed to do were because they were adaptations of stage plays with which she was familiar. Though many regarded her character as a feminist icon, Gellar told Detour magazine: "I hate the word 'feminist.' It has a bad connotation of women who don't shave their legs or under their arms.". Continuing to play roles of elegant society women, Ferguson was quickly dubbed "The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen." But the aristocratic label was also because she was known as a difficult and sometimes arrogant personality to work with. The role made her a cult icon in the United States and the UK.

At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered her a contract but she declined them all until the widely respected New York based French director Maurice Tourneur proposed she appear in the lead role as a sophisticated patrician in his 1917 silent film, "Barbary Sheep". Following this first film, Elsie Ferguson starred in two more films directed by Tourneur under a lucrative contract from Paramount Pictures that paid her $1,000 per day of filming. Gellar left All My Children in 1995, and landed the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ferguson, noted for her great beauty and as one of the "Park Avenue aristocrats," on one occasion is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of bonds in less than an hour. Continuous on-set squabbles would haunt Gellar's reputation throughout her career. During World War I, a number of Broadway stars organized a campaign to sell Liberty Bonds from the theatre stage prior to the performance as well as at highly publicized appearances at places such as the New York Public Library. Gellar left the series later that year after highly-publicized fights with Lucci, who was, by many accounts (reported by, among others, soap columnist Michael Logan), jealous of Sarah Michelle's Emmy win; this is due to Lucci receiving over a dozen nominations and never winning. In 1910 she spent time on the stage in London, England. In 1995, at the age of eighteen, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Leading Actress in a Drama Series.

By 1909, she was a major Broadway star. From there, she moved on to the long-runing soap opera, All My Children, where she played the conniving character Kendall Hart Lang, long-lost daughter of principal character Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci). Raised and educated in Manhattan, she became interested in the theater at a young age and made her stage debut at seventeen as a chorus girl in a musical comedy. Gellar's major break was in 1992, in the teen soap opera Swan's Crossing. Born Elsie Louise Ferguson in New York City, she was the only child of a successful attorney. Her best friend as a child was Melissa Joan Hart who later played Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Elsie Ferguson, born August 19, 1883 - died November 15, 1961, was an American stage and film actress. She was born in New York City and has been acting since the age of 4, when she did a commercial for Burger King.

Sarah Michelle Gellar (born April 14, 1977) was the leading actress in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Jennifer Bianchi. An Invasion of Privacy (1983).. Flower Girl at Kurt and Mindy's Wedding.

The Guiding Light (1986).. Emily. Spenser: For Hire, episode: "Company Man" (#3.17) (1988).. Girl Talk (1989).

teenage Jacqueline Bouvier. A Woman Named Jackie (1991).. Sydney Orion Rutledge. Swan's Crossing (1992)..

Kendall Hart #1. All My Children (1993-1995).. (archive footage) Kendall Hart. All About Erika (1994)..

Jane Robinson. Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997).. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003). (voice) Andromeda.

Hercules (1998).. An Invasion of Privacy (1983). (uncredited) Phil's daughter. Over the Brooklyn Bridge (1984)..

(uncredited) Elizabeth's student. Funny Farm (1988).. (as Sarah Gellar) Karen Rose. High Stakes (1989)..

Helen Shivers. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).. Casey "Cici" Cooper. Scream 2 (1997)..

(voice) Gwendy Doll. Small Soldiers (1998).. Hercules: Zero to Hero (1998). (uncredited) Girl in Cafeteria.

She's All That (1999).. Amanda Shelton. Simply Irresistible (1999).. Kathryn Merteuil.

Cruel Intentions (1999).. The It Girl (2001). Cindy Bandolini. Harvard Man (2001)..

Daphne Blake. Scooby-Doo (movie) (2002).. (voice) Cinderella. Happily N'Ever After (2004)..

Daphne Blake. Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004).. The Grudge (October 22, 2004) (in theaters)... Karen. Kate Willous.

Romantic Comedy (2004) (pre-production)..