Biographies: Agnes Ayres - Actor

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Agnes Ayres was born in Carbondale, Illinois, USA, on April 4, 1898. Agnes Ayres made her acting debut at the Essanay Studios in Chicago in 1915, and she became a silent film star in the 1920s, gaining fame when she co-starred with film star Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926), after which she took a hiatus due to her divorce. In 1929, she lost her fortune when the stock market crashed, whereupon she returned to work again but failed to regain her star status, so she quit acting and worked in real estate in Beverly. Agnes Ayres received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. Among her most notable works are Forbidden Fruit (1921), The Son of the Sheik (1926), and Eve's Love Letters (1927). She died in Los Angeles, California, on December 25, 1940.

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