Louise Rutter

{{Short description|American actress}} thumb|Louise Rutter, from a 1915 publication.

'''Louise Rutter''' (born September 15, 1887 – died before 1972) was an American actress of the stage and screen.

==Early life== Louise Rutter was born on September 15, 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, although some sources give Philadelphia as her birthplace.<ref name="Thanhouser">Q. David Bowers, [https://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Biography_Files/condoe4k5.htm "Louise Rutter"] ''Thanhouser.org'' (1995).</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21886186/louise_rutter_1917/ "Cried Herself Into Job"] ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' (April 22, 1917): 20. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref>

==Career== Rutter acted on stage from her youth, in ''The Bonnie Brier Bush'', ''The College Widow'', ''The Lion and the Mouse'', and ''The Heir to the Hoorah''. On Broadway, she had roles in such shows as ''Secret Service'', ''The Devil'', ''Held by the Enemy'', ''The Sins of Society'' (1909), ''Know Thyself'' (1909), ''Mid-Channel'' (1910), ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1910), ''Passers-by'' (1911), ''A Rich Man's Son'' (1912), ''Moloch'' (1915), ''Turn to the Right'' (1916-1917), ''The Man of the Hour'', and ''A Successful Calamity''.<ref name="Thanhouser" /><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Oqg5AQAAMAAJ&dq=Louise+Rutter&pg=PA64 "The Devil"] ''Catalogue of Plays 1916'' (Sanger & Jordon 1916): 64, 92, 102, 118, 133, 169.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uOExAQAAMAAJ&dq=Louise+Rutter+actress&pg=PA140 "Gaiety: Turn to the Right"] ''The Theatre'' (August 1916): 140.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=9e1DAQAAMAAJ&dq=Louise+Rutter+actress&pg=RA7-PA29 "Gillette at the Bronx"] ''Dramatic Mirror'' (March 2, 1918): 2.</ref><ref>"[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21885547/louise_rutter_1908/ 'Devil' 's Lady to Pay Bet"] ''Washington Post'' (November 9, 1908): 12. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21885469/louise_rutter_1905/ "The Heir to the Hoorah"] ''Chicago Tribune'' (October 16, 1905): 8. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref>

thumb|Louise Rutter, from a 1916 publication.

Rutter appeared in three silent films in 1915: ''Milestones of Life'' (Thanhouser), ''An Affair of Three Nations'' (Pathé), and ''The Menace of the Mute'' (Pathé).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JnhJAQAAMAAJ&dq=Louise+Rutter&pg=PA860 "Thanhouser Adds Another Star"] ''Motography'' (May 29, 1915): 860.</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21885694/louise_rutter_1915/ "Star Deserts Broadway for Thanhouser Studio"] ''Altoona Tribune'' (June 12, 1915): 9. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref> The latter two films were part of a detective series based on stories by John T. McIntyre.<ref>Michael R. Pitts, [https://books.google.com/books?id=xSmWVsDh8WEC&dq=Louise+Rutter&pg=PA2 ''Famous Movie Detectives III''] (Scarecrow Press 2004): 2-3. {{ISBN|9780810836907}}</ref> "I realize that the motion picture will soon take the place of the speaking stage," she said at the time. "Motion pictures are just beginning. Imagine, then, what the future has in store, figuring on this basis."<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21885778/louise_rutter_1915/ "'Screen Surpasses Stage' Says Louise Rutter, Former Broadway Star"] ''Charlotte News'' (September 27, 1915): 11. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref>

==Personal life== Louise Rutter married Charles Perkins, an English brewer, in 1911 and had 3 children. In 1972, a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap and other memorabilia from the career of actor William Gillette were donated to the State of Connecticut for display at Gillette Castle, by Doreen Carlos-Perkins, daughter of Louise Rutter. Rutter had starred with Gillette in several plays, and played "Alice Faulkner" alongside his famous rendition of Sherlock Holmes.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21886392/louise_rutter_1972/ "Gillette Memorabilia Given State By Kin of Actor's Leading Lady"] ''Hartford Courant'' (October 22, 1972): 6. via Newspapers.com{{open access}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{IMDB name|0752160}} * {{IBDB name|68678}} * [http://www.seattletheatrehistory.org/photograph-record/louise-rutter-0 A 1906 photograph of Louise Rutter] in costume for ''The College Widow'', from University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division; at ''The Early History of Theatre in Seattle''.

Category:1887 births Category:American actresses Category:Year of death missing