'20S GOTHIC FILM HEROINE LAURA LA PLANTE ASHER, 91.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Silent film star Laura La Plante Asher, one of Universal Studios' leading ladies in the 1920s, died after an extended illness. She was 91. Asher died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, the Motion Picture and Television Fund announced. Asher, who used the screen name Laura La Plante, appeared in more than 50 movies and serials. She was the female lead opposite Hoot Gibson and other cowboy cowboy Horseman skilled at handling cattle in the U.S. West. From c. 1820, cowboys were employed in small numbers on Texas ranches, where they had learned the skills of the vaquero (Spanish: “cowboy”). actors in numerous Westerns but is best remembered as the heroine of Gothic dramas, including the 1927 silent film ``The Cat and the Canary.'' Born on Nov. 1, 1904, in St. Louis, Asher began her career at age 15, playing bit parts in comedies. A performance in ``The Old Swimmin' Hole'' in 1921 led to a contract with Universal. She had lived in the Motion Picture and Television Fund's retirement home since 1989. Asher's husband of 51 years died in 1985. She is survived by a daughter, Jill Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. , son Tony Asher and grandson Grandson (gräNsôN`), Ger. Grandsee, town (1990 pop. 2,473), Vaud canton, W Switzerland, at the southwestern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel. Evan Robert Asher. Funeral services funeral service n → misa de cuerpo presente funeral service n → service m funèbre funeral service funeral n will be private. |
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