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Louise Closser Hale was born on October 13, 1872, in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Joseph Closser, a grain dealer, and Louise Paddock.
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Louise Closser Hale was born on October 13, 1872, in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Joseph Closser, a grain dealer, and Louise Paddock.
Hale was educated at the public schools in Indianapolis and La Porte, Indiana, at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and the Emerson College of Oratory in Boston.
Her father was greatly interested in the theatre and had he lived her desire for a theatrical career would have been encouraged, but her mother was opposed to the idea, although she did allow her to study elocution and dancing. This was sufficient to give the girl an introduction to the world of the theatre.
Hale made her first appearance on the stage at Detroit in the middle nineties in In Old Kentucky. After playing small parts for several years she made a great hit as Prossy in Candida with Arnold Daly in the season 1903 - 1904. This was the turning point in her career.
Hale made her first appearance in London in April 1907 as Miss Hazy in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Later she played Mrs. Billings in Lulu's Husbands, the fairy Berylune in The Blue Bird, Miss Jenson in Honest Jim Blunt, Mrs. Floud in Ruggles of Red Gap, Mrs. Atkins in Beyond the Horizon, Mrs. Bett in Miss Lulu Bett, Ase in Peer Gynt, Mrs. Smith in Expressing Willie, and many other parts. Leaving the legitimate stage, she went to Hollywood and in 1929 appeared in two films, The Hole in the Wall and Paris.
Other films in which Hale had a part were Devotion, Shanghai Express, Letty Lynton, The Barbarian, The White Sister, Another Language, and Dinner at Eight.
She was noted for her brilliant work as a character actress, and for thirty years she played elderly and middle-aged women, kindly and cantankerous. Hale was greatly loved in the theatrical profession and was acclaimed as a woman of notable attainments.
Her first book, a story called A Motor Car Divorce, was published in 1906. This was followed by The Actress (1909); The Married Miss Worth (1911); Her Soul and Her Body (1912), which she later worked into a strong play; We Discover New England (1915); We Discover the Old Dominion (1916); An American's London (1920); Home Talent (1926); and Canal Boat Fracas (1927). She was also co-author of Mother's Millions in which May Robson starred.
Her writing, like her acting, was notable for its sincerity and unerring sense of characterization. Her stories of theatrical life have no glamor but neither are they ever sordid; there is a certain tenderness about her pictures of the stage. Her travel books are delightful, for she wrote with an absorbing interest of the people as well as the places she saw, and she enlivened her narratives with her bright wit. Her travel books were made more interesting by the inclusion of sketches he made for them. Hale contributed many articles to magazines and for a time was associate editor of the Smart Set. Louise Closser Hale died on July 26, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, of a heart attack, following a heat stroke, which she had suffered the previous day.
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Louise Closser Hale was interested in politics and woman's suffrage and took part in war work at the time of the First World War.
Quotations: When asked whether she considered herself an actress or an author, she replied: "Actress. . I am a novelist by the indulgence of Heaven and the sweat of my brow. "
Louise Hale was a very quick and observant woman with a vivacious mind and a delicate sense of humor.
On August 17, 1899, Louise Closser married Walter Hale, actor, artist, and illustrator, at La Porte, Indiana. Hale died in December 1917.
Louise Closser Hale had no children, but two sisters, writer Myla Jo Closser of New York City, and Belle Closser of Indianapolis, survived her.