Actress. A red-haired and green-eyed beauty, she was a star of the early silent film era. She will be best remembered for her role as 'Sangaree' in the dramatic film, "Michael Strogoff" which was directed by Lloyd L. Carleton and starred Jacob P. Adler and Eleanor Barry, and was based on the novel by the French writer Jules Verne. Born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, as Rosetta Dewart Brice she was raised in Washington, D.C. and was educated there. She began an interest in pursuing an acting career at a young age and received training for the stage. She made her theatrical debut in Washington, D.C. in her teens and eventually went on to appear in stage plays for stock companies in both Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1908, when she was twenty years old, her engagement to society scion, Horace Carpentier Hurlbutt, was announced in the Washington, D.C. newspapers. When her fiancé objected to her acting career, she broke off the engagement and abruptly married John O. La Gorce, the Secretary of the National Geographic Society, instead. In 1913, when she was twenty-five years old she began performing with the Orpheum Stock Company and at the Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. That same year she decided that she wanted to be in moving pictures and requested an interview and screen test with Ira M. Lowry who was the general manager of the Lubin Film Corporation. Her screen test for Ira M. Lowry was a huge success and she was immediately offered a job with the company. She made her film debut playing the role 'Lorena Gray' in the Civil War drama "The Price Of Victory" (1913). In the film directed by John Ince, the actress played a heroine who blows up a bridge during a battle and is killed by the collapsing timbers. Her other film credits include, "A Servant Of The Rich" (1914), "A Cruel Revenge" (1914), "The Puritan" (1914), "The Mansion Of Sobs" (1914), "The House Of Fear" (1914), "In The Northland" (1914), "The Greater Treasure" (1914), "The Wolf" (1914), "Whom The Gods Would Destroy" (1915), "Her Answer" (1915), "The Sporting Duchess" (1915), "The Blessed Miracle" (1915), "Polly Of The Pots And Pans" (1915), "The Meddlesome Darling" (1915), "The Rights Of Man: A Story Of War's Red Blotch" (1915). In 1915, the Lubin Film Company hired a new actor/director, named John H. Pratt, and she was placed under his direction. Pratt guided her through several successful films and her work for the Lubin Film Company generally received high marks from movie critics. Their close work together soon led to a marriage between the couple. The pair both continued to work for Lubin film Company until the company folded in 1916, after which both returned to the theater. Eventually, they went to Los Angeles, California, to resume working in movies. Her many other film credits include, "The Evangelist" (1916), "Her Bleeding Heart" (1916), "Love's Toll" (1916), "Loyalty" (1917), "Humility" (1918), "The Third Generation" (1920), "A Beggar In Purple" (1920), "The Spenders" (1921), "The Green Temptation" (1922), and "Heart's Heaven" (1922). Her last role was playing the role of 'Mrs. Snodgrass' in the 1924 film production of "Beau Brummel" which also starred John Barrymore. For reasons unknown, this was her last appearance in a Hollywood film. Her husband continued appearing in films despite his wife's choice to leave the industry. She passed away in Van Nuys, California, on February 15th, 1935, at the age of forty-six, from degenerative myocarditis.