The world film encyclopedia (1933)

l62 (SKI-STA) Biographies of the Players Also Played in : Woman Tyap (Para), Behind the Make Up (Para), Men are Like That (Para). The Struggle (U.A.). SKIPWORTH, Alison. B. Loudon, Eug., 1875. Auburn hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5 in. Ed. London. Introduced herself to America in Marie Tempest's farce. The Artist's Model, on Christmas Day, 1895. Made her motion picture debut in silent films, but did not appear very frequently until talkies came. Played in: To-night or Never (U.A.), Devotion (Rogers), Night Angel (Para), Sinners in the Sun (Para), Sporting Widow (Para), Night after Night (Para), Raffles (U.A.), If I Had a Million (Para), He Learned About Women (Para), Du Batry (U.A.). SMITH, C. Aubrey. B. London, July 21, 1863. Son of C. J. Smith, M.D. Fair hair, blue eyes. Ht. 6 ft. 2 in. Wt. 13 St. 8 lb. Ed. Charterhouse; Cambridge. At Cambridge earned a great reputation as a cricketer, and on leaving the university became captain of the Sussex team. Also captained English team to Australia and South Africa. Stage debut at Hastings in 1S92, with A. B. Tapping's company. A long and successful stage career followed, during which he occasionally played in British films. Played in the talkie version of llie Bachelor Father (M.G.M., 1931), with Marion Davies, in which he had scored a success on the stage. Also Played in : The Builder of Bridges (Frohman), John Glayde's Honour (Frohman), The Witching Hour (Frohman), Red Pottage (British Actors), Meyrick Milton (British Actors), The Face at the Window (British Actors), Shuttle of Life (British Actors), CflS</esi«5/'ai«(Locoque), Bumps (Minerva), Bo/ie>«/fln Girl (Alliance), Flames of Passion (Wilcox), Temptation of Carlton Earle (Pathe), The UnzL<anted (Samuelson), Dancing Partner (M.G.M.), Never the Twain Shall Meet (M.G.^I.), The Man in Possession (M.G.M.), Guilty Hands (M.G.M.), Daybreak (M.G.M.), Tarzan, the Ape Man (M.G.M.), Son of India {U.G.M.), Phantom o/Pa>7s(M.G.:M.), Surrender (Fox), Polly of the Circus (M.G.M.), But the Flesh is Weak (M.G.M.), Love Me To-night (Para), Monkey's Paw (Radio). STANDING, Joan. Daughter of Sir Herbert Standing. B. England, June 21, 1903. Auburn hair, brown eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 8 in. Wt. 8 st. 8 lb. Ed. New York City ; Los Angeles, Cal. M. Otto Pierce. Without previous stage experience she visited the Goldwj'n Studios, was signed on, and made her screen debut with the late Mabel Normand in the film When Doctors Disagree (1919). Has since become well-known on the American screen. Also Played in : Greed (M.G.). Branding Iron (Goldwyn), Romance of a Queen (M.G.), Ritzy (Para), Women who Give (M.G.), Beau Sabreur (Para), Home James (Univ), Cohens and Kelly s in Atlantic City (Univ), College Hero (Col), Little Firebrand (Pathe), Rellly of Rainboia Division (Anchor), The Kid's Clever (Univ), My Lady's Past (Tiffany), Fashions in Love (Para), The Street of Chance (Para), Mixed Doubles (Univ), Never The Twain Shall Meet (M.G.^M.), Young as You Feel (Fox), Age for Love (Col), American Madness (Col), Dracula (Univ), Jenny Lind (M.G.M.). STANMORE, Frank. B. London, 1877. Grey hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5I in. A veteran of British motion pictures, who will be remembered by those who followed the activities of the old London Film Company. Had intended, as a youth, to take up medicine for a career, but fate intervened and he became an actor instead. Played in : Spanish Jade (Quality), A Rogue in Love (Globe), Lily of the Alley (Hepworth), Love, Life and Laughter (Welsh Pearson), School for Scandal (PhiUips), Squibs M.P. (Gains), Reveille (Welsh Pearson), The Blackguard, Satan's Sister (Welsh Pearson), The Only Way (F.N.), Mr. Preedy and the Countess (Welsh Pearson), Blinkcycs (Welsh Pearson), Wait and See (Nettlefold), Houp La (British Screen), Little Miss London (B.I.F.), Master and Man (Plionofilm), Leave it to Me (G. King), You'd be Surprised (Nettlefold), Chamber of Horrors (B.I.F.), The House Opposite (B.I. P.), The Great Gay Road (Butcher's), What a Night (BT.P.), The Old Man (B.L.), Let's Love and Laugh (B.I. P.), Lucky Girl (B.I.P.). STANWYCK, Barbara. Real name Ruby Stevens. B. Brooklyn, New York, July 16, 1907. Auburn hair, blue eyes. Ht. 5 ft. 5 in. M. Frank Fay. Learned dancing at the age of tlnree, later becoming a professional. Appeared first in cabarets, then in musical comedies, and finally in Ziegfeld's Follies. The Locked Door (U.A., 1922), a silent film, introduced her to the public for the first time. Also Played in : Mcxicali Rose (Col), Ladies of Leisure (Col), Ten Cents a Dance iCol), Illicit (Warner), Night Nurss