Vintage original 10.5 x 13.5 in. US double-weight matte publicity photograph of silent film star LA LAURA PLANTE c.1930. She is depicted in a close interior shot wearing a sprig of flowers on her dress and sporting beautiful blonde bobbed hair. It is untrimmed in fine- condition with a 3 in. vertical crease beneath the top left corner and two 1.5 in. horizontal creases on the corner itself; signs of wear on the top right corner; a small stain in the left background area next to her shadow; a 1 in. diagonal crease and signs of wear on the bottom left corner; and a small semi-circular shaped crease above the center of the bottom edge. Laura La Plante (born Laura LaPlant; November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996) was an American film actress, whose more notable performances were in the silent era. La Plante made her acting debut at age 15, and in 1923, she was named as one of that year's WAMPAS Baby Stars. During the 1920s, she appeared in more than 60 films. Her early films include Big Town Round-Up (1921), with cowboy star Tom Mix, the serials Perils of the Yukon (1922), Around the World in Eighteen Days (1923), and several movies with Hoot Gibson. The majority of the films starring LaPlante (from 1921 to 1930) were made for Universal Pictures. During this period, she was the studio's most popular star, "an accomplishment duplicated only by Deanna Durbin years later", and almost always enjoyed top billing. One of LaPlante's early surviving films is the 1925 film Smouldering Fires, directed by Clarence Brown and costarring Pauline Frederick. Her best remembered film is arguably the silent classic, The Cat and the Canary (1927), although she also achieved acclaim for Skinner's Dress Suit (1926), with Reginald Denny, the part-sound The Love Trap (1929), directed by William Wyler, and the 1929 part-sound Show Boat (1929), adapted from the novel of the same name by Edna Ferber. Although this last film was an adaptation of the novel, and not of the famous musical play also adapted from the 1926 novel, some songs from the play were included into the film as box-office insurance. She did not actually sing in the movie; her singing was dubbed by Eva Olivetti, one of the early instances in which this was done in a motion picture. A scene of La Plante in Show Boat was broadcast in the early days of British television.