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STUDIO DIRECTORY
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Biographical Sketch
EVELYN BRENT, featured player and star, became discouraged with and left motion pictures three times before she attained a great success. She had played with many of the leading companies, including Fox, Metro, Arrow and Selznick up to that time.
Miss Brent started in as extra when she was still a school girl in New York. With Priscilla Dean and a number of other girls who were "movie struck," she worked after school and on Saturdays in mob and extra scenes. And her work even at that time drew attention. She was encouraged to continue.
After leaving school she was given a contract by the World Film Company which paid her twenty-five dollars a week. Soon she was playing leading parts, but still was not satisfied. She then went to Metro under contract, but was over-ambitious and became so discouraged at the slow progress she considered she was making that she practically abandoned pictures. Then after a brief lapse she was given a contract by a company making pictures in Maine, but again became discouraged when the series of pictures she made for them did not get a good release.
She left the screen and went to England, where she made her debut on the speaking stage where she figured her future would be brighter.
But a British film company persuaded her to don grease paint once again and she made a series of pictures in and around London. Paramount then sent a company to Europe to make "Spanish Jade," and assigned Miss Brent the leading feminine role. That marked her return to the American screen. She soon returned to the United States and has been working constantly ever since. She is satisfied now that her place is on the screen.
Her recent screen roles have all been dominant ones and she is much in demand. Among them have been that of Feathers in "Underworld," that of the lead in "Beau Sabreur" and opposite Emil Jannings in "The Last Command."
She was born in Florida and educated in New York City. Mary Pickford has referred to Miss Brent as "a perfect type of screen beauty."
EVELYN BRENT
in
UNDERWORLD'
BEAU SABREUR
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and opposite Emil Jannings in
THE LAST COMMAND"