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ii4 When the Movies were Young
he went up to the different offices to see if he could entice some fair feminine. But, after each visit, back he'd plump into the taxi so distressed, "I can get men, but I cannot get women; they simply won't come."
Well, if he couldn't lure ladies from the agencies, he'd grab them off the street. With Austin Webb, an actor friend who has since left the stage for promotion of oil and skyscrapers, he was strolling along Broadway one day when a little black-haired girl passed by accompanied by her mother.
"Now that's the kind of girl I'm looking for," said Mr. Griffith.
Mr. Webb answered: "Well, why not speak to her? She's an actress, you can bet your hat on that."
But the movie director having a certain position to maintain, and not wanting to be misunderstood, hesitated. Mr. Webb volunteered, stepped up to and asked the girl would she like to work in a moving picture. Prompt her reply, "Oh, I'd love to, I just love pictures." The "girl" was Marion Sunshine of the then vaudeville team of Sunshine and Tempest. She was quite a famous personality to be in Biograph movies at this time.
Now Austin Webb, who during David Griffith's movie acting days had loaned him his own grand wardrobe, was one who might have become a big movie star. David implored him to try it, but he was skeptical. It took sporting blood to plunge moviewards in the crude days of our beginnings. Who could tell which way the thing would flop?