Mini-Biography:
Beatrice Dominguez was born on September 6, 1897 in San Bernardino, California, USA. She was an American Actrice, known for L' Américain (1916), Les quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse (1921), Coeur de mannequin (1919), Beatrice Dominguez's first movie on record is from 1914. Beatrice Dominguez died on Februar 27, 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Her last motion picture on file dates from 1921.
Biographie en Allemand (en Allemand): The name of this Spanish dancer and actress would be forgotten, if she would not have been in a memorable sequence that made film-history: Beatrice Dominguez - “La bella Sevilla” - was the dancing partner for Valentino's legendary Tango in the Argentinian cantina of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”. Born Beatriz Dominguez September 6th, 1896, to a Spanish family in San Bernardino near Los Angeles, “she was a beauty of the true Spanish type and won her first fame while appearing at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Diego as La Seville.” Beatrice made her screen debut in 1914, was 1916 in Fairbank's “The Americano”, but then performed mainly as a vaudeville dancer until she returned to the screen in 1919. She played a small part in Ingram's “The day she paid” and then one of the leading characters in “Under Crimson Skies”.
“Carl Laemmle saw in this beautiful dancer an exceptional motion picture type, and he immediately signed Miss Dominguez up for a leading role for 'The Man Hunter.'” She was one of the first Hispanic actresses getting proper screen billing, and was also in the trade papers: “Beatrice Dominguez, a Spanish dancer, has been engaged to play in the Metro production of 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' which Rex Ingram is directing.” Unfortunately, she did not witness her success: filming her next production “The White Horseman” she was hospitalized and died on February 27, 1921: “After an operation for appendicitises complications set in and a second operation was fatal.” “She had been engaged to play the role of the Hindu girl in the new Pathe production 'Without Benefit of Clergy,' the first of the Kipling stories to be filmed by Robert Brunton.” – She was not even 25 years old [lhg 2013]
Beatrice Dominguez Filmographie [Auszug]
1921: [05.30] The White Horseman (Acteurs: Zona), Mise en scène Ford Beebe, J.P. McGowan, avec Art Acord, Iva Forrester, ,
1921: [03.06] Les quatre cavaliers de l'Apocalypse (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) (Acteurs: Tango Dancer), Mise en scène Rex Ingram, avec Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Doc Cannon,
1921: [02.00] The Fire Cat (Acteurs: Margarita), Mise en scène Norman O. Dawn, avec Edith Roberts, Walter Long, Eagle Eye,
1920: [04.26] The Moon Riders (Acteurs: Rosa, Housekeeper's Daughter), Mise en scène B. Reeves Eason, Theodore Wharton, avec Art Acord, Charles Newton, Mildred Moore,
1920: [03.05] Hair Trigger Stuff (Acteurs), Mise en scène B. Reeves Eason, avec Hoot Gibson, Mildred Moore,
1919: [07.05] Le bâillon (Under Crimson Skies) (Acteurs: Island Girl), Mise en scène Rex Ingram, avec Elmo Lincoln, Harry von Meter, Mabel Ballin,
1919: [01.05] Coeur de mannequin (The Day she paid) (Acteurs: --??--), Mise en scène Rex Ingram, avec Francelia Billington, Charles Clary, Harry von Meter,
1919: [11.08] The Wild Westerner (Acteurs: Chiquita), Mise en scène George Holt, avec Art Acord, Magda Lane,
1919: [08.31] The Sundown Trail (Acteurs: Mexican Girl), Mise en scène Rollin S. Sturgeon, avec Monroe Salisbury, Clyde Fillmore, Alice Claire Elliott,
1919: [03.17] The Light of Victory (Acteurs: Lehua (Luhua)), Mise en scène William Wolbert, avec Monroe Salisbury, Bob Emmons, ,
1918: [07.21] Less Than Kin (Acteurs: (/xx/)), Mise en scène Donald Crisp, avec Wallace Reid, Ann Little, Raymond Hatton,
1916: [12.24] L' Américain (The Americano) (Acteurs: Dancer (/xx/)), Mise en scène John Emerson, avec Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Spottiswoode Aitken,
1914: [05.14] The Sea Gull (Acteurs: Red Fox - the Raven's Wife ), Mise en scène Rollin S. Sturgeon, avec Myrtle Gonzalez, Gayne Whitman, ,
1914: [01.13] The Masked Dancer (Acteurs: Dolores, a Dancer), Mise en scène Burton L. King, avec Myrtle Gonzalez, George Cooper, George Holt,
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