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Sultry brunette silent screen leading lady, born Elva McDowell. She was discovered for films by D.W. Griffith who cast her as an extra in Intolerancia (1916). After the end of her acting career, she worked as a retoucher in the photography department of a Hollywood studio.

She retired from films soon after suffering a broken back as the result of a car accident.

Believed in reincarnation and spiritualism and at one time claimed to have been Mary Queen of Scots in a previous life.