Elsa Emerson is the youngest and blondest of three sisters, born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and the love of the stage comes as naturally to Elsa as breath. But when tragedy strikes her family, Elsa seeks something more.
Elsa marries a Door County actor and flees to Los Angeles. But as her husband’s star quickly rises and sets, Elsa is discovered by powerful studio executive Irving Green, and becomes Laura Lamont. Despite the challenges of motherhood, daughterhood, and the impossible task of living up to the image of a dead sister, Laura becomes an Academy Award-winning actress—and a genuine movie star.
Ambitious and richly imagined, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures is as lovely and colorful as the great films of Hollywood’s golden age.