Long before Marta Dusseldorp announced she would be bringing crime drama Bay of Fires to Tasmania, another Australian actress attempted to bring the film industry to Tasmania's rugged West Coast.
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Louise Lovely was born Nellie Louise Carbasse in Paddington, Sydney, in 1895 and is credited as the first Australian actress to "make it" in Hollywood.
However, it is her connection to the Apple Isle that led to her enduring celebrity in Tasmanian folklore.
Lovely signed a contract with Universal Studios in 1914 and went on to appear in 50 American silent films, quickly becoming one of the studio's biggest stars.
In the mid-1920s, Lovely and her then-husband, director Wilton Welch returned to Australia determined to spark the local film industry.
While in Hobart in 1924, Lovely was approached by romance novelist Marie Bjelke Petersen - the aunt of future Queensland premier Sir Joh - about bringing her book Jewelled Nights to the big screen.
Lovely took on the project and was involved in all aspects of the film, which was largely shot at Flea Flats on Tasmania's West Coast.
"The premise of the film is a society woman who disguises herself as a boy and runs away to mine osmiridium in Tasmania," film historian Jeannette Delamoir said.
Dr Delamoir said the film was an exploration of gender and sexuality and was "well ahead of its time".
Lovely was also heavily involved in the film's production and Dr Delamoir believes it may have been detrimental to the film.
"One of the big issues that she she was up against was that she was seen as Louise Lovely," she said.
"But then there was sort of a feeling that she got too big for her boots, that she was too bossy.
"Apparently, she and her husband [Welch] were both directing it, but it seems to be more her vision than his."
Tasmanian historian Nic Haygarth said the film remained close to the hearts of many West Coast residents.
"There was a real connection to the film," Dr Haygarth said.
"It screened for two nights at The Athenaeum Hall in Waratah, so a lot of locals were there to see it and it became a legendary event on the West Coast."
The film has been lost in years since, but Dr Haygarth said that only added to the lore.
"It's quite funny, because the film virtually disappeared, but there were still stories, years ago, about somebody having a copy of Jewelled Nights under their bed," he said.
Despite the local interest, the film was financially unsuccessful and Lovely left cinema behind her.
However, her connection to the film industry didn't end there.
After marrying her second husband, Bert Cowan, who owned Hobart's Prince of Wales Theatre, Lovely took up a role in the cinema's sweet shop, where she worked until her death in 1980.
"She claimed that she invented the choc-top ice cream," Dr Delamoir said.
"It's very hard to say if she did or not, but it makes sense to me because of the location of the Cadbury factory."
Although Jewelled Nights is considered missing, an imaginative re-working of the surviving footage is available to watch at The West Coast Heritage Centre at Zeehan.
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