Of Portuguese ancestry, she was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker. After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent. Before trying motion pictures, she worked for a dentist, a candy store owner, and a tax collector and on stage.
Career
Fazenda got her start in comedy shorts as early as 1913 with Joker Studios, frequently appearing with Max Asher and Bobby Vernon. She was soon recruited for Mack Sennett's troupe at Keystone Studios.
As with many Keystone actors, Fazenda's star soon grew larger than Sennett was willing to pay for, and she left Sennett in the early 1920s for better roles and more money. She took a break from making motion pictures in 1921–1922 in order to try vaudeville. Fazenda appeared in a variety of shorts and feature-length films throughout the decade. By the advent of sound pictures, Fazenda was a highly paid actress, making movies for nearly all of the big studios. Fazenda continued through the 1930s, appearing mostly in musicals and comedies. Her skill was in performing character roles. She played such diverse parts as a fussy old maid and a lady blacksmith. She was once accurately described as a plain-looking woman but a highly gifted character comedienne.
Beatrice Lillie, Louise Fazenda, Frank Fay & Lloyd Hamilton in "Recitations" 1929
From "The Show of Shows" (film) 1929
published: 20 Oct 2011
Louise Fazenda, Dizzy Daisy, 1924 silent with vintage music soundtrack.
Dizzy Daisy was released June 29, 1924 by Mermaid Comedies, a division of the Jack White Production Co. It is a 2 reel 600 meter film. From the looks of the beach, the cliffs and other local scenery, this was most likely filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Poor Daisy is a fisherman's daughter who will never break into upper crust society as is her dream. She hires out as a maid at a high society party but quickly realizes that the party is just a front for a gang of jewel thieves planning to rob their high society guests. Daisy realizes what is happening and seizes the jewels from the thugs starting a slapstick chase down dusty roads, along the beach, into the ocean and finally back on shore as the keystone cops arrive to rescue the jewels (and Daisy).
Louise Fazenda plays D...
published: 22 Nov 2021
Louise Fazenda on the beach
Dizzy Daisy (1924)
published: 30 Mar 2020
Louise Fazenda bathroom scene
Fatty's Tintype Tangle 1915
published: 28 Mar 2020
Billy Bevan & Louise Fazenda - Astray From The Steerage - 1921
Billy Bevan & Louise Fazenda - Astray From The Steerage - 1921
published: 20 Apr 2022
CROSSED LOVE AND SWORDS- (1915) Louise Fazenda, Al St. John, Harry Bernard
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him. After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend.
published: 17 Oct 2021
Louise Fazenda - Dizzy Daisy (1924)
published: 12 Dec 2020
Faro Nell (Old Californy) (1929) Part 4 of 4
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Time: 1920s, 1929
Setting: California,
People: Faro Nell, Louise Fazenda, Jack Luden, Frank Rice, Harry Woods, Charles Mack, Actors, cowboys
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Subjects: comedy, western , Faro Nell, Old Califory, 1929 Comedy Film
published: 01 Nov 2018
1900s Silent Film Comedian Louise Fazenda
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Time: 1900s,
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People: Silent Film Comedian , Louise Fazenda
Objects: rifle,
Subjects: Silent Film, Silent Film Comedy, Silent Film Comedian, early film, hunting,
Dizzy Daisy was released June 29, 1924 by Mermaid Comedies, a division of the Jack White Production Co. It is a 2 reel 600 meter film. From the looks of the b...
Dizzy Daisy was released June 29, 1924 by Mermaid Comedies, a division of the Jack White Production Co. It is a 2 reel 600 meter film. From the looks of the beach, the cliffs and other local scenery, this was most likely filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Poor Daisy is a fisherman's daughter who will never break into upper crust society as is her dream. She hires out as a maid at a high society party but quickly realizes that the party is just a front for a gang of jewel thieves planning to rob their high society guests. Daisy realizes what is happening and seizes the jewels from the thugs starting a slapstick chase down dusty roads, along the beach, into the ocean and finally back on shore as the keystone cops arrive to rescue the jewels (and Daisy).
Louise Fazenda plays Daisy, the fisherman's daughter. She was born in 1895 in Indiana but the family moved to the California coast where her father opened a grocery store and where she attended Los Angeles H S. While still a teen, she delivered groceries for her father's store by horse drawn carriage as well as working as a dental assistant, candy store owner, and tax collector, all before she was 18. She was discovered by a Mack Sennett talent scout at a high school play at age 18 where she was immediately taken to the Keystone Studios to begin making silent pictures in 1913. It is said that when Mabel Normand would complain to Mack Sennett about needing better and classier actresses, Mack would just say, "I'll send for Fazenda". Although she was quite a beautiful young lady, she was best known for dressing down for laughs often playing a frizzy haired bumpkin with unruly curls, too many uncontrollable pigtails and ill fitting calico dresses. as is seen in this movie. Minnie Pearl and Judy Canova both said their bumpkin looks were inspired by Louise. Fazenda was the Carol Burnett of her day. Sennett let her play the characters of Maid, cook, nurse, cleaning woman, flower girl, etc. and even found a part for her in most of the Keystone Cop movies. She worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Ben Turpin, Charley Chase, Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, and James Finlayson among other great silent stars. In the early 1920s, she left Keystone as she was beoming too typecast as a hick and went to star in a few Mermaid Comedies and later classier dramas. She had no trouble adjusting to sound movies. In 1927, she married Hal Wallis and began producing her own movies. She became a socially prominent humanitarian, art collector, cared for children during WWII and in 1958 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She died in California in 1962.
Otto Fries, the fisherman and Daisy's father, was born in 1887 in St. Louis. He is credited with 177 films from 1916 through 1938. It is claimed that when the talkies took over movieland, he transitioned easily by making German language films produced by US studios.
Lee Moran, gang leader of the robbers, was born in Chicago in 1888. He was a screen writer as well as actor and has 483 movie credits from 1912 to 1935. He passed away in 1961 in California.
Jack Lloyd, born John Vernon in Manchester, England in 1885 has 67 movie credits from 1920 to 1940.
Dick Sutherland, one of the thugs, was born in Kentucky in 1881 and made 81 movies from 1919 to 1932. He had a facial disease which caused him to have a mean appearance and spent his career playing thugs opposite Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, Ben Turpin and Lloyd Hamilton among others.
Virginia Vance was born Dahlia Pears in Illinois in 1902. She became a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was in 96 of his movies from1922 to 1929 when she married actor Bryant Washburn and retired. She died of a heart attack in 1942 at only age 40.
Cliff Bowes was born in Colorado in 1894. He worked with Virginia Vance in a series for Educational Films and has 121 movie credits from 1916 to 1929. He might have had many more but died in 1929 at age 34 of a stroke.
Sidney Smith, the rich socialite, captured to be the party host to lure the other rich people to be robbed, was born in Minnesota in 1893. He worked for Sennett, Goldwyn and Christie Comedies. He had 188 movie credits from 1913 until his death on July 4, 1929. He died from drinking tainted liquor at a July 4 party.
Sunshine Hart, born Lucia Adams in Indiana in 1886 made her way in vaudeville as a 250 pound comic mother. Sunshine is the rather large lady who is decked out in rings and bracelets galore at the party. She mainly acted at Mack Sennett's studios and had 70 credits from 1916 to 1930. She was injured while filming My Best Girl with Mary Pickford in 1927 and never fully recovered. She passed away of heart failure in 1930 at age 43 in Los Angeles.
Dizzy Daisy was released June 29, 1924 by Mermaid Comedies, a division of the Jack White Production Co. It is a 2 reel 600 meter film. From the looks of the beach, the cliffs and other local scenery, this was most likely filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Poor Daisy is a fisherman's daughter who will never break into upper crust society as is her dream. She hires out as a maid at a high society party but quickly realizes that the party is just a front for a gang of jewel thieves planning to rob their high society guests. Daisy realizes what is happening and seizes the jewels from the thugs starting a slapstick chase down dusty roads, along the beach, into the ocean and finally back on shore as the keystone cops arrive to rescue the jewels (and Daisy).
Louise Fazenda plays Daisy, the fisherman's daughter. She was born in 1895 in Indiana but the family moved to the California coast where her father opened a grocery store and where she attended Los Angeles H S. While still a teen, she delivered groceries for her father's store by horse drawn carriage as well as working as a dental assistant, candy store owner, and tax collector, all before she was 18. She was discovered by a Mack Sennett talent scout at a high school play at age 18 where she was immediately taken to the Keystone Studios to begin making silent pictures in 1913. It is said that when Mabel Normand would complain to Mack Sennett about needing better and classier actresses, Mack would just say, "I'll send for Fazenda". Although she was quite a beautiful young lady, she was best known for dressing down for laughs often playing a frizzy haired bumpkin with unruly curls, too many uncontrollable pigtails and ill fitting calico dresses. as is seen in this movie. Minnie Pearl and Judy Canova both said their bumpkin looks were inspired by Louise. Fazenda was the Carol Burnett of her day. Sennett let her play the characters of Maid, cook, nurse, cleaning woman, flower girl, etc. and even found a part for her in most of the Keystone Cop movies. She worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Ben Turpin, Charley Chase, Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, and James Finlayson among other great silent stars. In the early 1920s, she left Keystone as she was beoming too typecast as a hick and went to star in a few Mermaid Comedies and later classier dramas. She had no trouble adjusting to sound movies. In 1927, she married Hal Wallis and began producing her own movies. She became a socially prominent humanitarian, art collector, cared for children during WWII and in 1958 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She died in California in 1962.
Otto Fries, the fisherman and Daisy's father, was born in 1887 in St. Louis. He is credited with 177 films from 1916 through 1938. It is claimed that when the talkies took over movieland, he transitioned easily by making German language films produced by US studios.
Lee Moran, gang leader of the robbers, was born in Chicago in 1888. He was a screen writer as well as actor and has 483 movie credits from 1912 to 1935. He passed away in 1961 in California.
Jack Lloyd, born John Vernon in Manchester, England in 1885 has 67 movie credits from 1920 to 1940.
Dick Sutherland, one of the thugs, was born in Kentucky in 1881 and made 81 movies from 1919 to 1932. He had a facial disease which caused him to have a mean appearance and spent his career playing thugs opposite Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, Ben Turpin and Lloyd Hamilton among others.
Virginia Vance was born Dahlia Pears in Illinois in 1902. She became a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was in 96 of his movies from1922 to 1929 when she married actor Bryant Washburn and retired. She died of a heart attack in 1942 at only age 40.
Cliff Bowes was born in Colorado in 1894. He worked with Virginia Vance in a series for Educational Films and has 121 movie credits from 1916 to 1929. He might have had many more but died in 1929 at age 34 of a stroke.
Sidney Smith, the rich socialite, captured to be the party host to lure the other rich people to be robbed, was born in Minnesota in 1893. He worked for Sennett, Goldwyn and Christie Comedies. He had 188 movie credits from 1913 until his death on July 4, 1929. He died from drinking tainted liquor at a July 4 party.
Sunshine Hart, born Lucia Adams in Indiana in 1886 made her way in vaudeville as a 250 pound comic mother. Sunshine is the rather large lady who is decked out in rings and bracelets galore at the party. She mainly acted at Mack Sennett's studios and had 70 credits from 1916 to 1930. She was injured while filming My Best Girl with Mary Pickford in 1927 and never fully recovered. She passed away of heart failure in 1930 at age 43 in Los Angeles.
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly conf...
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him. After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend.
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him. After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend.
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Keywords
Time: 1920s, 1929
Setting: California,
People: Faro Nell, Louise Fazenda, Jack Luden, Frank Rice, Harry Woods, Charles Mack, Actors, cowboys
Objects:
Subjects: comedy, western , Faro Nell, Old Califory, 1929 Comedy Film
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Time: 1920s, 1929
Setting: California,
People: Faro Nell, Louise Fazenda, Jack Luden, Frank Rice, Harry Woods, Charles Mack, Actors, cowboys
Objects:
Subjects: comedy, western , Faro Nell, Old Califory, 1929 Comedy Film
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Time: 1900s,
Setting:
People: Silent Film Comedian , Louise Fazenda
Objects: rifle,
Subjects: Silent Film, Silent Film Comedy, Silent Film Comedian, early film, hunting,
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Time: 1900s,
Setting:
People: Silent Film Comedian , Louise Fazenda
Objects: rifle,
Subjects: Silent Film, Silent Film Comedy, Silent Film Comedian, early film, hunting,
Dizzy Daisy was released June 29, 1924 by Mermaid Comedies, a division of the Jack White Production Co. It is a 2 reel 600 meter film. From the looks of the beach, the cliffs and other local scenery, this was most likely filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Poor Daisy is a fisherman's daughter who will never break into upper crust society as is her dream. She hires out as a maid at a high society party but quickly realizes that the party is just a front for a gang of jewel thieves planning to rob their high society guests. Daisy realizes what is happening and seizes the jewels from the thugs starting a slapstick chase down dusty roads, along the beach, into the ocean and finally back on shore as the keystone cops arrive to rescue the jewels (and Daisy).
Louise Fazenda plays Daisy, the fisherman's daughter. She was born in 1895 in Indiana but the family moved to the California coast where her father opened a grocery store and where she attended Los Angeles H S. While still a teen, she delivered groceries for her father's store by horse drawn carriage as well as working as a dental assistant, candy store owner, and tax collector, all before she was 18. She was discovered by a Mack Sennett talent scout at a high school play at age 18 where she was immediately taken to the Keystone Studios to begin making silent pictures in 1913. It is said that when Mabel Normand would complain to Mack Sennett about needing better and classier actresses, Mack would just say, "I'll send for Fazenda". Although she was quite a beautiful young lady, she was best known for dressing down for laughs often playing a frizzy haired bumpkin with unruly curls, too many uncontrollable pigtails and ill fitting calico dresses. as is seen in this movie. Minnie Pearl and Judy Canova both said their bumpkin looks were inspired by Louise. Fazenda was the Carol Burnett of her day. Sennett let her play the characters of Maid, cook, nurse, cleaning woman, flower girl, etc. and even found a part for her in most of the Keystone Cop movies. She worked with Fatty Arbuckle, Ben Turpin, Charley Chase, Mack Swain, Chester Conklin, Slim Summerville, and James Finlayson among other great silent stars. In the early 1920s, she left Keystone as she was beoming too typecast as a hick and went to star in a few Mermaid Comedies and later classier dramas. She had no trouble adjusting to sound movies. In 1927, she married Hal Wallis and began producing her own movies. She became a socially prominent humanitarian, art collector, cared for children during WWII and in 1958 was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She died in California in 1962.
Otto Fries, the fisherman and Daisy's father, was born in 1887 in St. Louis. He is credited with 177 films from 1916 through 1938. It is claimed that when the talkies took over movieland, he transitioned easily by making German language films produced by US studios.
Lee Moran, gang leader of the robbers, was born in Chicago in 1888. He was a screen writer as well as actor and has 483 movie credits from 1912 to 1935. He passed away in 1961 in California.
Jack Lloyd, born John Vernon in Manchester, England in 1885 has 67 movie credits from 1920 to 1940.
Dick Sutherland, one of the thugs, was born in Kentucky in 1881 and made 81 movies from 1919 to 1932. He had a facial disease which caused him to have a mean appearance and spent his career playing thugs opposite Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy, Ben Turpin and Lloyd Hamilton among others.
Virginia Vance was born Dahlia Pears in Illinois in 1902. She became a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was in 96 of his movies from1922 to 1929 when she married actor Bryant Washburn and retired. She died of a heart attack in 1942 at only age 40.
Cliff Bowes was born in Colorado in 1894. He worked with Virginia Vance in a series for Educational Films and has 121 movie credits from 1916 to 1929. He might have had many more but died in 1929 at age 34 of a stroke.
Sidney Smith, the rich socialite, captured to be the party host to lure the other rich people to be robbed, was born in Minnesota in 1893. He worked for Sennett, Goldwyn and Christie Comedies. He had 188 movie credits from 1913 until his death on July 4, 1929. He died from drinking tainted liquor at a July 4 party.
Sunshine Hart, born Lucia Adams in Indiana in 1886 made her way in vaudeville as a 250 pound comic mother. Sunshine is the rather large lady who is decked out in rings and bracelets galore at the party. She mainly acted at Mack Sennett's studios and had 70 credits from 1916 to 1930. She was injured while filming My Best Girl with Mary Pickford in 1927 and never fully recovered. She passed away of heart failure in 1930 at age 43 in Los Angeles.
After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend. He therefore decides to seeks revenge, before directly confronting him. After re-uniting with an old friend, a wealthy socialite loses the woman he loves to his old friend.
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Time: 1920s, 1929
Setting: California,
People: Faro Nell, Louise Fazenda, Jack Luden, Frank Rice, Harry Woods, Charles Mack, Actors, cowboys
Objects:
Subjects: comedy, western , Faro Nell, Old Califory, 1929 Comedy Film
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Time: 1900s,
Setting:
People: Silent Film Comedian , Louise Fazenda
Objects: rifle,
Subjects: Silent Film, Silent Film Comedy, Silent Film Comedian, early film, hunting,
Of Portuguese ancestry, she was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker. After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent. Before trying motion pictures, she worked for a dentist, a candy store owner, and a tax collector and on stage.
Career
Fazenda got her start in comedy shorts as early as 1913 with Joker Studios, frequently appearing with Max Asher and Bobby Vernon. She was soon recruited for Mack Sennett's troupe at Keystone Studios.
As with many Keystone actors, Fazenda's star soon grew larger than Sennett was willing to pay for, and she left Sennett in the early 1920s for better roles and more money. She took a break from making motion pictures in 1921–1922 in order to try vaudeville. Fazenda appeared in a variety of shorts and feature-length films throughout the decade. By the advent of sound pictures, Fazenda was a highly paid actress, making movies for nearly all of the big studios. Fazenda continued through the 1930s, appearing mostly in musicals and comedies. Her skill was in performing character roles. She played such diverse parts as a fussy old maid and a lady blacksmith. She was once accurately described as a plain-looking woman but a highly gifted character comedienne.