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Source: Just It 30 December 1926, p.17. Courtesy of the Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
Louise Lovely Louise Lovely i(A82572 works by) (birth name: Louise Carbasse) (a.k.a. Louise Welch)
Born: Established: 28 Feb 1895 Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 18 Mar 1980 Hobart, Southeast Tasmania, Tasmania,
Gender: Female
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1 2 form y separately published work icon Jewelled Nights Wilton Welch , Louise Lovely , ( dir. Wilton Welch et. al. )agent Australia : Louise Lovely Productions , 1925 Z1720417 1925 single work film/TV

The central character, Elaine Fleetwood, assumes a masculine role in an attempt to alleviate her family's financial troubles. She disguises herself as a boy and travels to Northern Tasmania to make her fortune on the osmiridium mining fields.

'This big budget production cost in excess of 8000 pounds and had lavish indoor sets as well as being shot on location in Tasmania. The film was not well received and both Louise Lovely and author Marie Bjelke-Peterson abandoned hopes of filming more novels for an Australian film industry producing wholesome family entertainment' (Source: National Film and Sound Archive).
1 The Warning Louise Lovely , Wilton Welch , 1913 single work drama

'This traffic in girls is carried on in every City in the world. It imperils the lives of our young womanhood. The number of young girls who have disappeared within the last twelve months is astounding. In nine cases out of ten they have been traced to these houses. The evils of commercialised vice are so alarming that the abolition of the system must not be delayed. Our girls must be warned that this traffic really exists so that they will be prepared to resist the insidious advances of these procurers.'

Source: Extract (title page of manuscript).
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