Laura Anson Explained

Laura Anson
Birth Name:Lura Lillian Kuhlman
Birth Date:January 2, 1892
Birth Place:Nebraska City, Nebraska
Death Date:July 15, 1968 (age 76)
Death Place:Woodland Hills, California
Other Names:Pauline Anson, Pauline McCullough, Lura McCullough
Occupation:Actress
Spouse(S):Philo McCullough

Laura Anson McCullough (January 2, 1892 – July 15, 1968), born Lura Lillian Kuhlman, was an American actress in silent films, mostly Westerns and crime dramas.

Early life and education

Lura Kuhlman was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the daughter of Adolph J. Kuhlman and Barbara Alleman Kuhlman. Her father was a businessman.[1] [2] Both of her parents moved to Los Angeles[3] in 1920; they both died, at her residence, in 1923 and 1924.[4] [5]

Career

Anson was an stage actress as a young woman.[6] She moved to Los Angeles by 1920,[7] [8] and appeared in about a dozen silent films between 1920 and 1923, mostly Westerns and crime dramas. Her co-stars included Roscoe Arbuckle, Lila Lee, Thomas Meighan, Pauline Starke, Richard Dix, and Buck Jones.[9] She worked with Cecil B. DeMille, Tom Forman, Charles Maigne, and Scott R. Dunlap, among other directors and producers.[10]

Anson's style was a matter of press interest. In 1920 she experimented with using henna coloring instead of hosiery (so that her legs and feet were, except for the henna and some sandals, bare). "Why, I just got tired of paying out a lot of money for silk stockings," she explained, "and finally solved a way to cut them out." In 1921, her ostrich feather-trimmed lingerie made the news.

Films

Personal life

Kuhlman married three times. Her first husband was Roy J. Anderson; they married in Iowa in 1910, and soon divorced. Her second husband was dentist John Franklin Anson;[15] they married in Nebraska in 1913 in Nebraska, and she used his surname professionally after they divorced in 1921. She married fellow actor Philo McCullough in 1939, in Arizona. She was also named as party in the 1921–1922 divorce of director Jacques Jaccard and actress Helen Leslie.[16] She died in 1968, at the age of 76, in Woodland Hills, California.[17] Her grave is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.[18]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1921-12-02 . Laura Anson is Named in Divorce Case in California . 6 . The Nebraska Daily Press . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1921-06-17 . Laura Anson Movie Star Obtains Second Divorce . 1 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1920-07-02 . Move to Pacific Coast . 7 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  4. News: 1923-03-16 . Death of A. J. Kuhlman Occurs in California . 2 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1924-08-01 . Dies in Hollywood, Calif. . 2 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1920-11-19 . New York Gasped When it Looked and Looked . 4 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1920-06-04 . Girl Well Known Here Rises at a Movie Star . 3 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1921-01-11 . Ostrich Feathers on 'Undies' . 16 . The Evening Sun . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Book: Katchmer, George A. . A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses . 2015-05-20 . McFarland . 978-1-4766-0905-8 . 8. en.
  10. Book: Solomon, Aubrey . The Fox Film Corporation, 1915-1935: A History and Filmography . 2014-01-10 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-8610-6 . 283 . en.
  11. News: 1921-06-17 . Laura Kuhlman Anson Now Playing Major Role . 9 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1921-11-25 . Will 'Shoot' Snow Scenes in Canadian Wilderness . 7 . Nemaha County Herald . 2023-07-13 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Book: Langman . Larry . A Guide to American Silent Crime Films . Finn . Daniel . 1994-01-30 . Bloomsbury Academic . 978-0-313-28858-6 . 135, 295 . en.
  14. Book: Sherwood, Robert Emmet . The Best Moving Pictures of 1922-23, Also Who's who in the Movies and the Yearbook of the American Screen . 1923 . Small, Maynard . 165 . en.
  15. News: 1921-06-26 . Mrs. Anson Here; Refuses to Talk . 1 . The Omaha Daily News . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1922-01-21 . Women in the News . 4 . The Dayton Herald . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1968-07-17 . Star of Silent Films is Dead at 76 . 26 . Arizona Daily Star . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1968-07-17 . Comedienne of Silents Dies at 76 . 5 . The Los Angeles Times . 2023-07-12 . Newspapers.com.

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