Jessica Harcourt(1906-1988)
- Actress
Jessica began her career as a teenage model and a member of the J.C.
Williamson theatrical company, before winning a major role in the
silent film blockbuster
For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
at the age of nineteen. She made several other films before moving her
focus to personal appearances and the development of her own line of
cosmetics in the early 1930s. She retired from performing upon her 1937
marriage to author and screenwriter
F.W. Thwaites.
