Ivy Close

by Hans J. Wollstein film biography
Having won a magazine beauty contest, Ivy Close went on to become one of England's first screen favorites, appearing in scores of mainly low-budget melodramas of life among the landed gentry, most of them eminently forgettable. In contrast, La Roue (1922), running approximately nine hours and produced in France by Abel Gance, was everything but forgettable. But filming of this major silent work took more than two years, and although Close earned favorable reviews for her performance as Norma -- the foundling who falls in love with her foster-brother -- she found herself all but forgotten by her erstwhile fans in Great Britain. Retiring in 1929, Close's greatest contribution to the screen proved in retrospect to be her son, the director Ronald Neame.
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1925
1930
Year Title Rating    
1914 The Lure of London

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1915 Darkest London

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1917 The Ware Case

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1918 A Peep Behind the Scenes

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1918 Adam Bede

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1918 Missing the Tide

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1918 Nelson

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1919 The Flag Lieutenant

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1920 The Worldlings

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1923 La Roue

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