A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the silent screen
Date:
1953
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putman's Sons
Volume:
A pictorial history of the silent screen
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:
February 15, 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.

EDITH, STOREY (ME'LIES) JEAN, THE VITAGRAPH DOG G. M. ANDERSON (BRONCHO BILLY) (ESSANAY) Q RAY MYERS, ETHEL GRANDIN IN "ACROSS THE PLAINS" (INCE) Producers were realizing players had selling value even though the public at this time did not know many of them by name. There was a mad scramble to sign prospective favorites and they were now given billing and publicity. Florence Lawrence was still the most valuable actress at the box office when she left Imp and joined Lubin. She teamed up with Arthur Johnson and their comedies were very popular. Mary Pickford, who was becoming a great favorite, left Biograph for Imp. Owen Moore, whom she had married, went with her. She remained with Imp only eight months, made a few pictures for Majestic and then returned to Biograph. Vitagraph, where Maurice Costello and Florence Turner were top-ranking players, had acquired Larry Trimble as an actor and writer. MIRIAM NESBITT, MARC MacDERMOTT, MARY FULLER IN "AIDA" (EDISON) WALLACE REID IN "THE DEERSLAYER" (VITAGRAPH) EVELYN DOMINICUS, HARRY MOREY, WALLACE REID, FLORENCE TURNER, HAL REID IN "THE DEERSLAYER" (VITAGRAPH) 21