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LOIS WILSON
[T was while wielding the birchen rod as a school teacher in Alabama, that Lois Wilson discovered she had guessed wrong, and really wanted to be an actress.
She had been moved to Birmingham from .her birthplace in Philadelphia, and her education had been arranged for a career of teaching the young idea how to shoot.
Miss Wilson's discovery of the yearning took her to Chicago where, through the assistance of Lois Weber, she secured a small part in "The Dumb Girl of Portici." She displayed such talent that Miss Weber took her to Los Angeles, Calif., where she played leads with J. Warren Kerrigan and Frank Keenan.
She attracted attention by winning a film beauty contest and, after entering pictures, appeared to advantage in such successes as "A Man's Man," "His Robe of Honor," "One Dollar Bid" and "City of Silent Men." She also played Maude Adams' role in "What Every Woman Knows."
She entered the Paramount forces as a leading woman for Wallace Reid and Bryant Washburn, and her actting induced William De Mille to give her an important role in his production, "Midsummer Madness," in which she was featured, along with Jack Holt, Conrad Nagle and Lila Lee. This was in 1920, and from then on every production in which she was featured was a success. Her work as "Miss Lulu Bett" was an extraordinary exhibition of repressed emotion and won a flood of praise from all parts of the nation. She was then cast for the feminine lead with Wallace Reid in "The World's Champion." Later she appeared in "Is Matrimony a Failure?"
Then she had the feminine lead in "Our Leading Citizen," with Thomas Meighan, and scored a wonderful triumph in Cecil B. De Mille's production, "Manslaughter," being featured with Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy. She played the feminine lead in "The Covered Wagon," in which J. Warren Kerrigan played the hero part, and was given one of the big roles in "Bella Donna," a Paramount picture produced by George Fitzmaurice with Pola Negri as the star with Conway Tearle and Conrad Nagle.
Miss Wilson is five feet, five and one-half inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, and has brown hair and hazel eyes. She lives in Hollywood with her parents and is one of four sisters. Her youngest sister, Constance, had a small part in "The Covered Wagon." Her father was for nearly a quarter of a century in the employ of R. G. Dun.
Her hobbies are horseback riding and dancing. She is also a tireless reader of modern literature, believing that an actress must keep up with the best in fiction and other forms of writing if she is to make a real success on the screen.
Lois Wilson looks rather out of place in the wild and woolly Western atmosphere. She went out on location with "The Covered Wagon" company.
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