A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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20 BIRTH AND INFANCY Because of its restraint and reverential spirit, From the Manger to the Cross became an immense success. Costing about $35,000, it made a profit of nearly a million dollars. Above is another scene from the picture. R. Henderson Bland is on the couch at the right, with Alice Hollister kneeling at his feet and Jack Clark leaning against the pillar in the background. Between them is J. P. MacGowan, a Boer War veteran who later became a director. Another actor who turned director was Robert Vignola, shown here, in the left foreground, as Judas. In 1912 came the film destined to establish the motion picture as a work of art. It was Queen Elizabeth, produced in France by Louis Mercanton and starring Sarah Bernhardt. Every stage actor's tragedy is that his art dies with him, and the "Divine" Sarah quickly realized that this new medium would give her acting a permanence beyond the span of her life. Of Queen Elizabeth she remarked: "This is my one chance of immortality."