Elise Hamilton

(b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****) . Actress. In January 1919, S.A. Pictorial announced that the actresses to play the parts of the two rival queens in H. Lisle Lucoque’s film version of Allan Quatermain had been selected. Mabel May, the wife of I.W. Schlesinger, was to play Nyleptha, the Fair Queen, and the unknown Elise Hamilton was to be Sorais, the Dark Queen. That same year she was cast in the role of the tragic Isabel Clayton in Joseph Albrecht’s Isban, based on the novel by George H. Cossins. At this stage nothing else is known about her. (FO)

Sources

S.A. Pictorial, 4 January 1919

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm

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