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One of the bright lights of the early silent era was the first actress promoted by name
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One of the bright lights of the early silent era was the first actress promoted by name
Colorization. Silent comedian Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and magician Harry Houdini. Arbuckle had screen make-up on so I've tried to keep that effect.
When we think of silent movie stars we inevitably think of Garbo, Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino as well as perhaps Lillian Gish (not forgetting the quintessential flappers Clara Bow and Louise Brooks). But for every movie icon there were hundreds of actresses who appeared in silent movies whose names haven’t stood the test of time(...)
Hollywood’s queen of silent comedy was the first actor to have her name above a studio – and to hurl a custard pie on screen. Now she is back in the spotlight
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You may not have heard of Vera Kholodnaya, but she was Russia’s first major silent movie star. The majority of her movies were destroyed by the Soviet regime and she died under suspicious circumstances aged just 25 but she managed to in a lot of living in her short life! Born in 1893 in Poltava,(...)
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Dutch Postcard, no. 458. Photo: Hal Phyfe / Fox Film. Blonde Norwegian-American bombshell Greta Nissen (1906–1988) is mostly remembered for a role she didn't play; or, rather, a role that was eventually re-filmed with someone else. The film and stage actress was born in Oslo as Greta Ruzt-Nissen. She made her professional debut at 6 as a member of the corps de ballet at Copenhagen's Royal Theater. After studying with choreographer Michel Fokine in Paris, she made her film debut in the Danish Daarskab, Dyd og Driverter (1923, Lau Lauritzen) followed by Lille Lise let-paa-taa (1924, Lau Lauritzen), two vehicles for the comedy team of Fy og Bi (Pat and Patachon). It were to be her only films in Scandinavia. Arriving in New York with a ballet troupe in 1924, she received an offer to appear on Broadway in George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly's lavish revue Beggar on Horseback. Later she worked for the famed Flo Ziegfield. At 19 she was discovered by Jesse Lasky of Paramount Pictures, who signed her to a contract. Making her American screen debut in In the Name of Love (1925) with Ricardo Cortez and Wallace Beery, Nissen was singled out by critic Mordaunt Hall, who found her "an appealing and clever actress with a striking personality”. She played in several sophisticated comedies with Adolphe Menjou like The Wanderer (1925, Raoul Walsh) and Blonde or Brunette (1927, Richard Rosson) and she became an exotic seductress in such costume extravaganzas as The Lady of the Harem (1926, Raoul Walsh) and Fazil (1928, Howard Hawks). MGM, meanwhile, borrowed her for The Love Thief (1926, John McDermott), originally conceived for Greta Garbo. Among her other successful potboilers were Lost: A Wife (1925, William C. de Mille), The Lucky Lady (1926, Raoul Walsh) and The Popular Sin (1926, Malcolm St. Clair). Greta Nissen was in 1927 the original choice for leading lady in Hell's Angels (1930), Howard Hughes’ stunt-flying extravaganza set during World War I. This epic film could have made her a major contender, but unfortunately when the movie was remade to include sound, her scenes were summarily scrapped. She was replaced because of her heavy Norwegian accent. Nissen had made $2500 a week when filming Hell's Angels and her replacement, Jean Harlow, worked for $250. The film shot Harlow to stardom and Nissen lost much work due to the advent of sound films. Rebounding somewhat with a contract from Fox, she eventually proved that her accent could easily have been turned into an asset, but the fall-out from the Hell's Angels debacle followed her for the remainder of her film career. She starred or co-starred in a series of B-films which included the lame Women of All Nations (1931, Raoul Walsh ), the Will Rogers comedy Ambassador Bill (1931, Sam Taylor), the mystery drama The Circus Queen Murder (1933, Roy William Neill) again opposite Adolphe Menjou, and the George O'Brien western Life in the Raw (1933, Louis King). In 1933 she moved to England where she appeared in a few ‘quota quickies’, including On Secret Service (1933, Arthur B: Woods) and Honours Easy (1935, Herbert Brenon). After the spy film Cafe Colette (1937, Paul L. Stein) she retired. Divorced from former Fox contract star Weldon Heyburn, Greta Nissen married in 1941 industrialist Stuart Eckert. Until her death at 82 she lived quietly in California, and in 1988 she still received fan letters. Sources: Hans J. Wollstein (All Movie Guide), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Lucille Ball 1939, photo by Ernest A. Bachrach
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Georgia Hale 1926
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The Irish have a wonderful way with language, to the point that outsiders can hardly understand at times.
Theda Bara had a bulbous nose, an overbite and a squint - yet she was a star of silent movies. Kira Cochrane on the ultimate screen vamp
Pola Negri by Charles Gates Sheldon, 1920s
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