Ivy Close
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Emerging from Stockton-on-Tees, she entered the public eye after winning a nationwide beauty contest in 1908, a triumph that secured a Rover car, a Royal Academy portrait and a career in modeling, music-hall singing and advertising. Leveraging that fame, she co-founded Ivy Close Films in 1914, one of the earliest production companies created by a star, and proceeded to appear in 44 silent pictures…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
