A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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THOMAS J. CARRIGAN, MABEL TALIAFERRO IN "CINDERELLA" (SELIGJ. "CINDERELLA" (THANHOUSER) RUTH STONEHOUSE, PAT O'MALLEY IN "THE PAPERED DOOR" (ESSANAY) r^^i? FRANK WEED, MABEL TALIAFERRO, JOSEPHINE MILLER, LILLIAN LEIGHTON, OLIVE COX IN "CINDERELLA" (SELIG) 1Q 1 One day the director of Miss Turner's V ' I picture was having trouble with a Pomeranian. Trimble appeared with Jean, his pet collie, who performed like a trouper and was put on the payroll for $25 a week. Jean became the first dog star of films. Hal Reid, who had signed to write and act too, brought along his nineteen-year-old son with ambitions to be a cameraman. The casting man took one look at the son and put Wallace Reid in front of the camera. Helen Gardner, a teacher of pantomime, was playing minor parts before she received attention in the role of Becky Sharp in "Vanity Fair." Essanay acquired Francis X. Bushman, an actor and sculptor's model. At Biograph, Lionel Barrymore, just returned from studying painting in Paris, began his career as a screen actor. Companies continued filming the classics. Thanhouser did "David Copperfield" and "Romeo and Juliet." Edison made "The Three Musketeers" and a film version of the opera "Aida," while Pathe released "Faust" and "II Trovatore." D. W. Griffith directed "Enoch Arden" for Biograph, and Selig made a three-reel film of "The Two Orphans." Vitagraph's contribution to the screening of well-known novels included "A Tale of Two Cities," "Vanity Fair" and "The Deerslayer." Monopol distributed Dante's "Inferno." Both Selig and Thanhouser made a film of "Cinderella." Thomas H. Ince, an erstwhile actor, directed his first picture in California, entitled "Across The Plains." FRANK GRANDON, LINDA ARVIDSON IN "ENOCH ARDEN" (BIOGRAPH) MARY MAURICE, JAMES MORRISON, EARLE WILLIAMS, TOM POWERS, FRANK NEWBERG IN "SAVING AN AUDIENCE" (VITAGRAPH) JACK STANDING, FLORENCE LAWRENCE "A GOOD TURN" (LUBIN) IN PEGGOTY, DAVID AND HIS MOTHER DAVID AND EMILY AS CHILDREN SCENES FROM "DAVID COPPERFIELD" (THANHOUSER)