When the movies were young (1925)

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Record Details:

Title:
When the movies were young
Date:
1925
Publisher:
New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
Volume:
When the movies were young
Leaf #:
000245
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
September 26, 2024
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CHAPTER XXIV EMBRYO STARS \ I TE fell to the lure of the Bret Harte story this winter. * * We advanced to the romances of the hardy Argonauts, and the "pretty ladies,, of the mining towns. What a wealth of picturesque cinema material the lives of the rugged forty-niners afforded ! Dell Henderson was featured as the handsome gambler, Jack Hamlin; and Claire MacDowell as the intriguing lady of uncertain virtue; Stephanie Longfellow as the rare, morally excellent wife. Blanche Sweet was still too much the young girl to interpret or look the part of Bret Harte's halo-ized Magdelenes. Mr. Griffith, as yet unwilling to grant that she had any soul or feeling in her work, was using her in "girl" parts. But he changed his opinion with "The Lonedale Operator." That was the picture in which he first recognized ability in Miss Sweet. The outdoor life of the West had plumped up the fair Blanche, and Mr. Griffith felt at this stage in her development she typified, excellently well, buxom youth. Why wouldn't Blanche have plumped up when she arrived on location with a bag of cream puffs nearly every day and had her grandmother get up at odd hours of the night to fry her bacon sandwiches ? She soon filled out every wrinkle 201