Margaret Blanche Explained

Marguerite Blanche
Othername:	Margaret Jessen
Occupation:	Actress
Yearsactive:	1916-1920 (film)

Marguerite Blanche was a Danish actress notable for her starring roles in British silent films. She was born in Copenhagen as Margaret Jessen, but emigrated to Britain where she made twelve films for director-producers such as Cecil Hepworth and Sidney Morgan. Her final film was Morgan's The Woman of the Iron Bracelets in 1920.^[1] Morgan then replaced her as the star of his films with his own daughter Joan Morgan.

Selected filmography

• Trelawny of the Wells (1916)
• A Place in the Sun (1916)
• The Grand Babylon Hotel (1916)
• The Grit of a Jew (1917)
• The Cobweb (1917)
• The Romance of Old Bill (1918)
• Sweet and Twenty (1919)
• The Black Sheep (1920)
• The Scarlet Wooing (1920)
• The Woman of the Iron Bracelets (1920)

Bibliography

• Low, Rachael. The History of the British Film 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

Notes and References

1. Low p.482