The Picture Show Annual (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1928
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1928)
Leaf #:
00018
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Year Book, and Global Cinema
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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10 Picture Show Annual Maurice Costello with his wife and daughters Dolores and Helene. A photograph taken when he was a popular screen hero. In circle: Theda Bara. the fnost famous oj the old-time vamps. At Left: Pearl White in a scene from " Plunder," one of the many serials in which she made her name. Bill Hart on the warpath. It is a hard matter to say who was actually the first popular film " hero," but the distinction most probably belongs to Maurice Costello or Francis X. Bushman. Francis X. Bushman was the strong man hero in a physical sense. A man of magnificent physique, he looked the part and his type appealed to picture-goers for a con- siderable time. Maurice Costello was more of the drawing- room type of " hero," and he and his land reigned unchallenged till the juvenile " hero," so admirably played by the late Wally Reid, took the affections of film-goers. With regard to Western " heroes," there is no ques- tion that Broncho Billy was the first popular star. He had quite a successful reign, not only in America, but in this countrv, and I have never been able to find out why he left the pictures. Writing from memory, I think Bill Hart must have been the next popular Western " hero." Bill introduced quite a distinct character to the screen, that of the Good- Bad Man, and in his day he had one of the strongest