Margaret Prussing
actress
- Born:
- 1890-03-29, Highland, Illinois, USA
- Died:
- 1944-01-13, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Margaret Prussing first drew breath on 29 March 1890 in the small railroad town of Highland, Illinois, and by 1914 she had traded prairie quiet for the flickering lights of Fort Lee, New Jersey, stepping before the camera in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Over the next twelve months she dodged daggers in On Dangerous Paths and slipped a poisoned bauble on to an unwary finger in The Ring of the Borgias, two 1915 thrillers that fixed her image on silent-era screens. Off-set she took the name of screenwriter Albert S. Le Vino, sharing a marriage license as brisk and efficient as the intertitles she never spoke. Forty-nine years after her Midwestern sunrise, the Pacific sunset claimed her: she died in Los Angeles on 13 January 1944, leaving behind a handful of nitrate reels and a legacy that still flashes briefly whenever archists resurrect early American cinema.
