
Acting
Born July 18, 1890 · Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
Matilda Fernández, stage name Fontaine La Rue (July 18, 1890 in Hermosillo, Mexico – September 13, 1964) was an American silent film actress appearing in films from 1918 to 1929. Her career ended with the advent of talkies. She was one of seven children born to Diego and Carlotta Monreal Fernandez. After immigrating to the United States in 1907, Matilda married Victor Garcia Rojas. The couple had three children, Victor Paul, Matilda Garcia, and Victoria Grace. After the couple divorced, Matilda entered show business. She got her start on stage as a toe dancer and in musical comedy. She toured with the Trimble Musical Comedy Company in 1914 before breaking into films the following year in comedy shorts for Keystone. She first used the name Dora Rodgers, but reinvented herself with the name Fontaine La Rue, tiring of playing vamps. On occasions she would switch between the names. Notably she appeared in the lost film, A Blind Bargain with Lon Chaney. After a lengthy love affair with actor Nelson McDowell, Fontaine married real estate broker Wayne Hancock and retired from the screen. The Keystone Vamp died of Acute Myelogenous Leukemia on September 13, 1964, at UCLA Medical Center.

Gold from Weepah
1927

His New York Wife
1926
Flyin' Thru
1925

Love on the Rio Grande
1925

Trigger Fingers
1924
The Torrent
1924

Unseen Hands
1924

Daughters of Today
1924
The Showdown
1923

The Love Letter
1923

A Blind Bargain
1922

Oh, Mabel Behave
1922

The Bear Cat
1922

The Dangerous Little Demon
1922
The Secret Code
1922

The Further Adventures of Yorke Norroy
1922

The Isle of Love
1922

Exit the Vamp
1921

The Great Impersonation
1921

Beyond
1921

The Lost Romance
1921

The Faith Healer
1921

Two Kinds of Love
1920

The Sins of Rosanne
1920

A Prohibition Monkey
1920

Human Stuff
1920

An Adventuress
1920

The Woman Under Cover
1919

The Man Beneath
1919

Boots
1919

Borrowed Clothes
1918
Who Killed Walton?
1918
Did She Do Wrong?
1918
Wronged by Mistake
1918

Cactus Nell
1917
His Naughty Thought
1917

Stolen Magic
1915

Mabel Lost and Won
1915

Love, Loot and Crash
1915
Droppington's Family Tree
1915

The Home Breakers
1915

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915

Peanuts and Bullets
1915