Nola Luxford

Nola Luxford (24 December 1901 – 10 October 1994) was a New Zealand born film actress of the silent film era, and into the 1930s.

Born Minola Adelaide Pratt in Hastings, New Zealand, Luxford relocated to Hollywood to pursue a career in film acting. Her first film appearance was in the 1920 film The Tiger's Coat. From 1920 through 1927 she would appear in thirteen films, starring opposite and alongside such actors as Bill Cody, Jack Holt, and Carmel Myers. In 1927 she married William Bauernschmidt, and for a time she didn't act at all.

In 1932 she gave a daily one-hour radio report on the Olympics at Los Angeles for New Zealand and Australia, relayed "down under" by short-wave radio ^[1].

After 1927 it wasn't until 1932 that she had her next film role. She would have six film appearances from 1932 to 1935, with the only credited ones of any notoriety being The Iron Master starring Reginald Denny, and Lost in Limehouse, starring Laura La Plante, and both being in 1933. She retired after 1935, and settled in Pasadena, California. She married Glenn Russell Dolberg in 1959, following the death of her first husband. She continued to live in Pasadena, where she was residing at the time of her death on 10 October 1994.

References

• Nola Luxford filmography

1. ^ Our Olympic Century (page 49) by Joseph Romanos (2008, Trio Books, Wellington) ISBN 9780958283989

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Name	Luxford, Nola
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Date of birth	24 December 1901
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Date of death	10 October 1994
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