This article is about the American silent film actress Laura Anson, who was sometimes known as Laura McCullough; for the American poet born in 1960, see Laura McCullough.
Laura Anson
Laura Anson in a costume fringed with ostrich feathers, 1921
Born
Lura Lillian Kuhlman
January 2, 1892
Nebraska City, Nebraska
Died
July 15, 1968 (age 76)
Woodland Hills, California
Other names
Pauline Anson, Pauline McCullough, Lura McCullough
Laura AnsonMcCullough (January 2, 1892 – July 15, 1968), born Lura Lillian Kuhlman, was an American actress in silent films, mostly Westerns and crime dramas.
Early life and education
Lura Kuhlman was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, the daughter of Adolph J. Kuhlman and Barbara Alleman Kuhlman. Her father was a businessman.[1][2] Both of her parents moved to Los Angeles[3] in 1920; they both died, at her residence, in 1923 and 1924.[4][5]
Anson's style was a matter of press interest. In 1920 she experimented with using henna coloring instead of hosiery (so that her legs and feet were, except for the henna and some sandals, bare). "Why, I just got tired of paying out a lot of money for silk stockings," she explained, "and finally solved a way to cut them out."[6] In 1921, her ostrich feather-trimmed lingerie made the news.[8]
Kuhlman married three times. Her first husband was Roy J. Anderson; they married in Iowa in 1910, and soon divorced. Her second husband was dentist John Franklin Anson;[15] they married in Nebraska in 1913 in Nebraska, and she used his surname professionally after they divorced in 1921.[2] She married fellow actor Philo McCullough in 1939, in Arizona. She was also named as party in the 1921–1922 divorce of director Jacques Jaccard and actress Helen Leslie.[1][16] She died in 1968, at the age of 76, in Woodland Hills, California.[17] Her grave is in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills.[18]
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