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Alice Frances Taaffe (July 29, 1900 – December 22, 1987), known professionally as Alice Terry, was an American film actress and director. She began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. While Terry's trademark look was her blonde hair, she was actually a brunette, and put on her first blonde wig in Hearts Are Trumps (1920) to look different from Francelia Billington, the other actress in the film. Terry played several different characters in the 1916 anti-war film Civilization, co-directed by Thomas H. Ince and Reginald Barker. Alice wore the blonde wig again in her most acclaimed role as "Marguerite" in film The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), and kept the wig for any future roles. In 1925 her husband Rex Ingram co-directed Ben-Hur, filming parts of it in Italy. The two decided to move to the French Riviera, where they set up a small studio in Nice and made several films on location in North Africa, Spain, and Italy for MGM and others. In 1933, Terry made her last film appearance in Baroud, which she also co-directed with her husband.

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Born	Alice Frances Taaffe 24 July 1899 Vincennes, Indiana USA
Died	22 December 1987 (aged 88) Burbank, California USA
Zodiac	Leo
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Rex Ingram 1892-1950 Irish film director · m. 1921 info edit

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Ramon Novarro · Friend · 1899-1968 · Actor edit info

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Barry Norton 1905-1956 Argentine-American actor info edit view couple »

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