A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00025
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

THE NEW YORK HAT (1912) 11 Glamour Girl Number One. In 1908 a fifteen-yearold named Gladys Smith played a child part in David Belaseo's production of The Warrens of Virginia. A year later she applied for a job at the Biograph Studios. David W. Griffith, who had abandoned acting for directing, was struck with her looks and gave her a chance in The Lonely Villa, a one-reeler starring Mary Leonard (at the telephone in the picture above ) . The young girl was an instant success, and Griffith promoted her to leads. Motionpicture actors were anonymous in those days, and audiences knew her as "Little Mary" long before she emerged as Mary Pickford. In 1909 Griffith, working for Biograph, took a company to California— not to establish permanent quarters, but simply to escape the New York winter. He made several pictures on the Coast. One of them, in 1912, was The Mender of Nets, with Mary Pickford. Griffith's reputation as an artist was solidly grounded. BELOW Griffith paid fifteen dollars for a story by a San Diego high-school girl named Anita Loos and produced it, in 1912, as The New York Hat. Our Mary played the lead. Opposite her Griffith placed a promising young actor who had just returned from Paris, where he had been studying painting— Lionel Barrymore.