A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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t EDWARD SUTHERLAND (KEYSTONE) JEWEL CARMEN, WILLIAM FARNUM JEWEL CARMEN, WILLIAM FARNUM SCENES FROM "A TALE OF TWO CITIES' WILLIAM FARNUM, FLORENCE VIDOR JANE GREY (PARAMOUNT) TULLY MARSHALL (TRIANGLE) KITTENS REICHERT, STUART HOLMES, MARY MARTIN IN "THE SCARLET LETTER" L> IRENE FENWICK (PARAMOUNT) VALESKA SURATT Vampires were "box-office." Theda Bara, the most famous, was portraying such historical and fictional characters as Cleopatra, Camille, Du Barrv and Cigarette. Fox also had Valeska Suratt and Virginia Pearson working their wiles. At Triangle Louise Glaum was building a reputation as a home-wrecker. The ludicrous costumes these shady ladies wore were considered alluring and seductive. With the loss of their most important stars, Triangle was exploiting Charles Ray, Dorothy Dalton, William Desmond, Enid Bennett, Belle Bennett, Bessie Love, Roy Stewart, and a former Ziegfeld beauty, Olive Thomas. World stars included Alice Brady, Carlyle Blackwell, Ethel Clayton, Robert Warwick and Kitty Gordon. Selznick's Select Company released films starring Clara Kimball Young, Norma and Constance Talmadge and Bert Lvtell, a stage juvenile who co-starred with Hazel Dawn in his first film, "The Lone Wolf. JUNE CAPRICE, FRANK MORGAN IN "A MODERN CINDERELLA" WALTER MILLER (FOX) WINIFRED KINGSTON, DUSTIN FARNUM IN "THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL" ROBERT CONNESS (WORLD) 144 JOSE COLLINS (WORLD) DOUGLAS MacLEAN (WORLD) BUDDY AND GERTRUDE MESSINGER, VIRGINIA CORBIN, VIOLET RADCLIFFE IN "ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP" FOX PHOTOPLAYS EVA TANGUAY (SELZNICK) RAYMOND HITCHCOC (TRIANGLE)