I've not read it but I think her autobiography contains much information about Elinor Glyn at the time when she was busily re-inventing herself as 'the Dowager Empress of Hollywood'. I'm not an expert on the films of the silent era but am, at this very moment, reading a delightful collection of essays penned by Anita Loos who was, of course, a real mover-and-shaker in early Hollywood and knew everybody of note in the 'teens and 'twenties. I love the photographs too - am I correct in thinking that, in 'ANTR', she actually took the part of the rather mysterious Constance Willard (albeit with a major age-gap between the REAL Miss Willard as she was in 1912 and herself)? That's an intriguing point about Alma Taylor, thanks for sharing it with us. ever done) you can see the unknown Rudloph Valentino sitting at the table just over her right shoulder in her semi-close up~ one of those fun "back when they were nobodies" interludes.
STARS OF THE SILENT AGE HOLLYWOOD TRIAL
If you look at the well known film clip of Arbuckle's "friend," the ill-Fated Virginia Rappe, in Isle of Love (it has appeared in seemingly every Arbuckle Rape Trial docu. >Rudolph Valentino debuted after WW1 methinks. One could speculate on whether she WOULD have become a star, but as of 1912 she was not a threat to Miss Pickford or Miss Sweet.
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She had made ten films in 1912 as of April, and would appear in two more, a total that suggests that she had some sort of career momentem going. She was a silent film performer, but had appeared in five films in 1911, out of a career total of seventeen. "Star" is stretching the point rather thin.
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>Titanic survivor Dorothy Gibson was of course a silent film star in 1912 Up and comer Blanche Sweet had made 45 films since 1909, while waning star Florence Lawrence, the first ever "film star" had appeared in 228 films since 1906, and would make 69 more before her death by suicide. Her husband, Owen Moore, had appeared in 168 since 1908. Well, Mary Pickford had appeared in at least 153 films between 1909 and Jan.