Louise Rial ( – August 10, 1940)American and British Theatrical Biography c. 1979 by J. P. Wearing.. was an American stage and film actress.
Rials's parents were Thomas C. Grover and Caroline Grover (nee Chamberlin). She had four siblings Burr, Leonard, Lucien and Julia Grover. Her theatrical debut came in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1878). In 1895 she performed on Broadway as Catherine Epsworth in Sidney R. Ellis's Bonnie Scotland. She continued acting on stage before entering silent films in 1915 with the early Fox Film Corporation.
On August 10, 1940, Rial died in her New York City home, aged 91. She is buried in an actor's plot at Kensico Cemetery Valhalla New York. Her daughter Vira Rial is buried with her in the plot.
Filmography Sin (1915) The Marble Heart (1916) A Wife's Sacrifice (1916) The Spider and the Fly (1916) A Daughter of the Gods (1916) Tangled Lives (1917) My Little Sister (1919)
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Louise Rial at IBDb.com portrait(archived) Louise and Jay Rial 1881 poster for "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (Wayback Machine) Louise Rial with Robert B. Mantell and Genevieve Hamper in Fox's "A Wife's Sacrifice" 1916 page 107