Carla Laemmle, a dancer and actress whose screen career began in the silent era and ended with new found celebrity in the Internet age, died on June 12 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 104.
She made her first screen appearance in “The Phantom of the Opera,” the 1925 Lon Chaney silent. After the coming of sound, she uttered the opening line of the 1931 “Dracula,” starring Bela Lugosi. After a six-decade career hiatus, rose from the dead at the dawn of the 21st century, with credits including the web series “Broken Dreams Blvd.”
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