Jessica Harcourt

Jessica began her career as a teenage model and a member of the J.C. Williamson theatrical company, before winning a major role in the silent film blockbuster For the Term of His Natural Life (1927) at the age of nineteen. She made several other films before moving her focus to personal appearances and the development of her own line of cosmetics in the early 1930s. She retired from performing upon her 1937 marriage to author and screenwriter F.W. Thwaites.