Lucille Carlisle

Acting

Lucille Carlisle

Born 1895-08-31 · Galesburg, Illinois, USA

Lucille Carlisle was born Ida Lucille White in Galesburg, Illinois. After her father abandoned the family her mother opened a boarding house in Spokane, Washington. At the age of sixteen Lucille was briefly married. Soon after she she won a beauty contest organized by Photoplay Magazine. She moved to New York City and began her career on Broadway as Lucille Zintheo. Later she changed her stage name Lucille Carlisle. In 1918 she was signed by Vitagraph Pictures and was cast in the Larry Semon comedy Boodle and Bandits. Larry and Lucille would make more than a twenty movies together including The Simple Life and A Pair of Kings. They became a popular onscreen team while off screen they had a tempestuous romance. Lucille was unhappy with the shape of her nose and underwent numerous plastic surgeries. In 1922 she and Larry were secretly married. Later that year Lucille suffered a nervous breakdown. She recovered but her marriage to Larry ended in divorce. In 1923 she auditioned for the lead in The Hunchback of Notre Dame but Patsy Ruth Miller got the part. Lucille developed a drinking problem and was often under a doctor's care for her nerves. She decided to stop acting and married businessman Leland H. Millikin in 1930. Lucille, who never had children, adopted her niece when her sister was unable to raise her. During World War 2 she made several radio appearances. Lucille died on October 19, 1958 due to a liver disorder. She was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.

Acting credits

The Suitor poster
4.9

Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

The Suitor

1920

Golf poster
6.4

Comedy on the golf links.

Golf

1922

The Sportsman poster
6.7

The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille Carlisle, Al Thompson, Frank Alexander and William Hauber.

The Sportsman

1921

No artwork available
6.3

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, 'counter jumper' was the term used in both Britain and the U.S.A. to describe the lowest dogsbody clerk in a general store or emporium. Here, Semon is employed in that capacity in an Old West general store that caters for desperate characters. As usual for Semon, most of the gag set-ups are deeply contrived and implausible. We get here not one but two separate sequences in which randomly splattered stains just happen to resemble a human face.

The Counter Jumper

1922

Scamps and Scandals poster
5.8

Larry helps a girl escape her wedding to a fat man.

Scamps and Scandals

1919

The Fly-Cop poster
5.6

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

The Fly-Cop

1920

No artwork available
5.4

Larry arrives at his girlfriend's house to ask her father for her hand in marriage. Her father, who is in the middle of winning a chess game for the first time in 20 years, immediately throws Larry out the window. Meanwhile, the girl is kidnapped by a Chinese servant, who is secretly the henchman of a gangster who has developed a sleeping potion he wants to try out on an unsuspecting woman. Larry finds out, and he sets out to rescue his girlfriend and try not to get thrown out of a window by her father again.

No Wedding Bells

1923

Passing the Buck poster
7.2

Larry has to fight off a bunch of crooks who are after his bag of jewels.

Passing the Buck

1919

The Star Boarder poster
7.3

Larry's absurdly plush life of ease as a convict comes to an end when his sentence is up. Tossed out, he tries several ways, including a stickup to get back in the comfortable jail. Exchanging clothes with a lookalike escaped prisoner, he goes back, only to find he's to be hung. Now desperate to leave again, he joins other cons in a jailbreak.

The Star Boarder

1919

The Show poster
7.0

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.

The Show

1922

Dull Care poster
6.5

Semon as a detective trying to deal with some roughnecks.

Dull Care

1919

School Days poster
6.8

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

School Days

1920

The Grocery Clerk poster
5.8

Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.

The Grocery Clerk

1919

A Pair of Kings poster
5.5

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

A Pair of Kings

1922

Between the Acts poster
3.8

Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.

Between the Acts

1919

The Stage Hand poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Stage Hand

1920

The Simple Life poster
10.0

The Simple Life is a silent comedy short.

The Simple Life

1919

Well, I'll Be poster
7.0

Larry Semon goes out west.

Well, I'll Be

1919

His Home Sweet Home poster
7.0

Larry Semon is in the kitchen preparing food for a high society musical evening.

His Home Sweet Home

1919

The Head Waiter poster
7.0

The headwaiter does tricks with spaghetti that the greatest spaghetti handlers in the world never heard of. The sight makes your mouth water. Besides food, the scenes are garnished with a couple of trayfuls of beautiful girls.

The Head Waiter

1919