Star maker : the story of D. W. Griffith (1959)

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Record Details:

Title:
Star maker : the story of D. W. Griffith
Date:
1959
Publisher:
New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Volume:
Star maker : the story of D. W. Griffith
Leaf #:
00012
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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Vlll Foreword himself. As an example, when he first came to New York he couldn't land a job as an actor, so he got one working in the subway that was being built; his special assignment was wielding a pick and shovel. He told his brother Albert L. Griffith about this, but mentioned it only once. And he told Evelyn Griffith, and one or two others. That was all. He made eighteen stars: Mary Pickford Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Mae Marsh Blanche Sweet Richard Barthelmess Henry B. Walthall Robert Harron Florence Lawrence Mabel Normand Miriam Cooper Carol Dempster Una Merkel James Kirkwood Owen Moore Joseph Schildkraut Monte Blue Louis Wolheim He launched, or furthered, the film careers of: Lionel Barrymore Noel Coward Douglas Fairbanks DeWolf Hopper Erich von Stroheim Carmel Myers William Boyd (Hopalong Cassidy) Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree Lupe Velez Colleen Moore Constance Talmadge Ruth St. Denis Mack Sennett Ralph Graves Ivan Lebedeff W. C. Fields Zita Johann Ivor Novello Bessie Love Alma Rubens