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Gloria Joy

George O’Hara

Yale Boss
(1899–1977)

Andy Clarke
(1903–1960)

Bobby Connelly
(1909–1922)

Helen Connelly
(1907–1993)

Edna Hammel
(1901–1964)

Adelaide Lawrence
(1905–1989)

Matty Roubert
(1907–1973)

Ordean Stark
(1905–19??)

It does not often happen that an almost unknown small part actor becomes a world famous stage and screen star, but Hans Albers is one of those who have succeeded in accomplishing this feat

Anthony Asquith is looked upon as one of the few directors who may always be relied upon to combine in film production high artistic merit with commercial success

The character actor Harry Baur has not lacked recognition up to now; he was appreciated as an ornament of the French stage, but not too many people outside France were aware of his high artistic capabilities 🇫🇷 🇩🇪

Victor de Kowa is the very type for amorous roles and counts among the most popular stage and film lovers

At one stroke Marlene Dietrich rose to the front rank of film actress — one of the very few artists who have ever reached the top with such amazing rapidity

The son of an old aristocratic Austrian family, Arthur von Diossy was originally intended for a diplomatic career

Will Dohm’s great versatility and his extra-ordinary knowledge of make-up render him particularly suitable for the talking screen

When the talking film was first introduced, E. W. Emo was one of the first to realize fully, and also to exploit, the immense new possibilities presented by this new medium

Jill Esmond has achieved popularity with the general public, the admiration of the profession and the respect of the press

Dr. Arnold Fanck is responsible for the most magnificent Alpine films ever produced

Willy Fritsch occupies a prominent place among the most successful German screen actors of the present time

Carl Froelich is one of the foremost and best known film director in Germany

Gustav Fröhlich had to overcome many an obstacle before he attained his present prominent position

Dolly Haas’ acting is characterized by an enthralling charm, accentuated by a graceful mobility and a highly developed sense of fun

Karl Hartl is known in the film world as director and author of a large number of scenarios and stories

Lilian Harvey is the darling of the cinema-going public all over the world

Paul Hörbiger studied chemistry and took part in the war as an active officer before going on the stage

Emil Jannings is the most distinguished and successful of German film actors

Out of realism Leopold Jessner developed a most striking technique, the effectiveness of which was demonstrated when, in 1919, he produced a series of classical plays, such as Richard III. and Othello

Wolfram Junghans’ instructional film “Biene Maja” was a great success

Lisl Karlstadt cannot be mentioned without Karl Valentin. For two decades she has never appeared on the stage with anyone else

Cary von Krall was engaged by the Orbis Filmgesellschaft to play in a series of apache films with Stella Harff and Ludwig Trautmann

Those who know what great importance G. W. Pabst attaches to the pictorial quality of his productions will be able to conclude from that circumstance alone that Walter Robert Lach is a cameraman of the very first rank

From the very first, Elsa Lanchester was taken seriously by press and public alike

When Francis Lederer’s contract was to begin, Hollywood ceased making silent films and the contract had to be cancelled, since his knowledge of English was then inadequate

Recently, when Erich Pommer saw Herbert Lomas act in London, he said “If I had seen him a few months ago, I would have made an English Version of my latest film and would have offered Mr. Lomas the Jannings part.”

Before achieving success on the screen, Percy Marmont had a brilliant stage career

Herbert Marshall has secured a place in the front rank of British film actors

Dominated by a romantic idea, Joe Pasternak attained his goal after many adventurous experiences

Since 1927 Erich Pommer has been producing movies for the Ufa within his Erich-Pommer-Produktion

Albert Préjean — film star of international renown 🇫🇷 🇩🇪

Der heilige Berg and Die Hölle vom Piz Palü made terrific demands on the vitality and courage of this true artist, Leni Riefenstahl

Among the film artists who have recently come to the forefront of public interest, Szőke Szakáll [S. Z. Sakall] occupies a prominent position

Josef Stein is one of the pioneers of the German film

Anna Sten had the great good fortune to be trained for the talking screen by Sergei Eisenstein

Karl Valentin is the German Charlie Chaplin

The consummate artistry with which Conrad Veidt portrayed the Prince Metternich character, has earned him unanimous appreciation all over the World

Paul Verhoeven is one of the most talented of the younger generation of German stage actors

The talking film hastened Käthe von Nagy’s development and progress to an extraordinary extent; the spoken word was what she had long missed as the medium for the most effective interpretation of human character, the pliant instrument of subtle emotion

Dorothea Wieck is one of the most talented and versatile actresses on the German stage to-day

There are few names which appear to be so closely associated both with the German talking film and with the talking film in general as that of Billy Wilder

Bessie Eyton

“A motion picture actress must know how to ride, to shoot, to fence, to dance, and to motor”

William Farnum

“I have just completed my seventeenth film production, or approximately 225,000 feet of celluloid in the two years in which I have been in the photoplay”

Pauline Frederick

“Like every other actress, I had long since decided that the movies were a haven of refuge for those inferior actors and actresses who had difficulty in obtaining regular employment on the stage”

Vivian Martin

“Should you honor me to the extent of desiring my autographed photo, I shall be glad to send you one”

Lillian Walker

“The first picture I worked in was never released”

Henry B. Walthall

“I took up the study of law. Once when I took the floor and delivered a brief legal plea, I knew instantly it was the stage I wanted”

Earle Williams

“I have had many offers to return to the so-called legitimate stage, but nothing now, it seems, will ever divorce me from the Photoplay”

Alice Blaché

Madame Blaché has very little patience with the film censors. She is French and believes in realism

Agnes Egan Cobb

Agnes Egan wanted to know the film game from all the points of the compass. Posters were something else. She was the first saleswoman for colored lithographs, specializing motion pictures.

Charles J. Hite

Charlie Hite is one of the very few film men who recognized the possibilities of outside investors

Adolph Zukor

Adolph Zukor is the The A to Z Man of the film business

Beverly Bayne

“There! you’re the wappiest looking little ‘wap’ ever”

Wallace Beery

“I write, produce and take the lead in my own pictures. My record so far is to write and produce a picture in six hours. Easy!”

Lottie Briscoe

“I was the first legitimate star to go into pictures”

Charles Clary

“I’ve never been interviewed by a girl in my life”

Ethel Clayton

“Air is food and drink to me. Really”

Gertrude Coghlan

“I like pictures so well that I’m anxious to like the making of them”

Flora Finch

“I try to be funny in my appearance and my actions on the screen: funny but never repulsive. Always odd, but never repulsive”

Rosa Gore

“I threw my coat at somebody and ran down the middle of that howling crowd”

Arthur V. Johnson

“It’s five years since I went into picture work”

Alice Joyce

“In the fall one wants to be right in New York; there is everything one wants in New York”

Clara Kimball Young (March 1914)

“Fat? It’s the new kind of skin-food I’m using!”

Clara Kimball Young (September 1914)

“I want to play every variety of emotion. I love the dramatic and I intend to reveal it; I like good comedy, too; but I do not care about burlesque”

James Kirkwood

“Terrible times I’ve had in New York — terrible!”

Adrienne Kroell

“I just love the work because there is always something new and the players have time to live like real people”

Florence LaBadie

“‘Lab-a-die’ is the correct way, but I don’t mind how it is pronounced. It should have been ‘Smith’”

Hughie Mack

“If I was dressed as a messenger boy, it must have been a hot day”

Boyd Marshall

“I seemed to fill the requirement of the youthful lead, so here I’ve been ever since”

Gertrude McCoy

“There’s always more fun in doing what one shouldn’t do”

Marc McDermott

“Fiery red [hair was] the curse of my young life, but thank heaven, I was spared watery blue eyes”

Matt Moore

“Affectation spoils any picture for me — but there are people who seem to believe in it”

Harry Myers

“My work in pictures has earned me the title ‘dare-devil.’ There is nothing I have been asked to do that I didn’t do”

Miriam Nesbitt

“I’m dreadful at higher mathematics”

Harry Northrup

“I can express any emotion, interrogative or otherwise, with my eye-brows.”

Muriel Ostriche

“It’s been a rush from one scene to another and from the studio to the dressing-room and back again. And that’s what I love — lots of rush”

George Periolat (December 1912)

“Photoplays are the greatest things in the world, today; and they’ve just started. The players who get into them now, while the profession is still young, are lucky”

Norma Phillips

We don’t work on the picture every day, but when we do, we work hard”

Mary Pickford (August 1913)

“If you don’t mind, we can talk while I dress for the next scene”

Mary Pickford (August 1914)

If others were as critical as I, I’m afraid people wouldn’t like my work at all.”

Kate Price

“I put my foot in my mouth every time I open it, and I can’t tell you any pretty tales to make a story out of; all I can do is tell you the truth”

Pearl Sindelar

“Where did I put that lemon? I should have swallowed it long ago, but I forgot. It helps my voice, you know”

Marguerite Snow

“Appearance is a study, and clothes are as much a part of this study as grease-paint and wig”

Richard Travers

“There’s room for me out-of-doors”

Mabel Trunnelle

“I like my work, I like the Edison people, and my husband and I have the best times in the world”

Richard Tucker

“Not that I would have objected to becoming president of the bank, some day, but there were several men ahead of me who would have had to die first”

Robert Warwick

“I believe too, that the object should be to project thought, in making a meaning clear instead of gesticulating. These are simple methods, but simplicity always scores strongest”

Bryant Washburn

“I’m usually cast as ‘heavy’ but in the picture we came here to make, I have a straight part. The character and I last throughout the four reels.”

Pearl White

“I can do the most daring things and not get a scratch, but the minute I try something easy I nearly lose my life”

Crane Wilbur

“It’s necessary to be in touch with things right at their heart, with all due respect to Jersey.”

William A. Williams

“I began my stage work as a quartet”

Belle Adair
(1889–1926)

Ellen Aggerholm
(1882–1963)

Elsie Albert
(1888-1981)

Mary Alden
(1883–1946)

Carl Alstrup
(1877–1942)

Mignon Anderson
(1892–1983)

Charles Angelo
(18??–19??)

Charles Arling (January 1914)
Charles Arling (August 1914)
(1875–1922)

(19??–19??)

Edwin August (September 1912)
Edwin August (October 1914)
(1883–1964)

Sydney Ayres
(1879–1916)

King Baggot (February 1913)
King Baggot (July 1914)
(1879–1948)

Ethel Barrymore

(1879–1959)

Madame Bartet
(1876–1949)

Georges Baud
(18??–19??)

Digby Bell

(1849–1917)

Harry Benham
(1884–1969)

Francelia Billington
(1895–1934)

Eleanor Blanchard
(1886–19??)

(1877–1942)

Fritzi Brunette
(1890–1943)

(1881–1942)

Ned Burton
(~1850–1922)

Harry Carey
(1878–1947)

Renée Carl
(1875–1954)

Lloyd B. Carleton
(1872–1933)

Helen Case
(1885–1977)

Riley Chamberlin
(1854–1917)

(1890–1961)

J. J. Clark
(1879–1947)

Ethel Clayton
(1882–1966)

William Clifford
(1878–1941)

Dark Cloud
(1855–1918)

Della Connor
(18??–19??)

George L. Cox
(1878–1947)

Edward Coxen
(1880–1954)

Donald Crisp
(1882–1974)

Irving Cummings
(1888–1959)

Viola Dana
(1897–1987)

Juliette Day
(1892–1957)

Adele DeGarde
(1899–1972)

Monsieur Duard
(18??–19??)

William Duncan
(1879–1961)

Jean Durrell
(18??–19??)

Edward Earle
(1882–1972)

Frank Farrington
(1873–1924)

Maude Fealy
(1883–1971)

George Field
(1877–1925)

Romaine Fielding
(1867–1927)

Edna Flugrath
(1892–1966)

Alexander F. Frank
(1866–1939)

William Garwood
(1884–1950)

Gene Gauntier
(1885–1966)

Lillian Gish
(1893–1993)

Ethel Grandin
(1894–1988)

Kempton Greene
(1889–1939)

Winifred Greenwood (February 1913)
Winifred Greenwood (December 1913)
(1885–1961)

Mildred Guion
(18??–19??)

Florence Hackett
(1880–1954)

Edith Haldeman
(1905–1984)

(1867–1944)

Riley Hatch

(1862–1925)

Ormi Hawley
(1889 –1942)

Carol Holloway
(1892–1979)

Violet Horner
(1892–1970)

Arthur Hotaling
(1873–1938)

Arthur Housman
(1889–1942)

Louise Huff
(1895–1973)

Gladys Hulette
(1896–1991)

Lamar Johnstone
(1884–1919)

Joseph Kaufman
(1882–1918)

Henry King
(1886–1982)

Adele Lane
(1877–1957)

Florence Lawrence
(1886–1938)

Robert Z. Leonard
(1889–1968)

Florence Lerida
(18??–19??)

Lila Leslie
(1890–1940)

Ralph Lewis
(1872–1937)

Eddie Lyons
(1886–1926)

Murdock MacQuarrie (May 1913)
Murdock MacQuarrie (July 1914)
(1878–1942)

Cleo Madison
(1883–1964)

Mae Marsh
(1894–1968)

Marguerite Marsh
(1888–1925)

Helen Marten
(18??–19??)

Edna Mayo
(1895–1970)

Geraldine McCann
(18??–19??)

Mollie McConnell
(1865–1920)

Georges Melchior
(1889–1944)

Lois Meredith
(1890–1967)

Earl Metcalfe
(1889–1928)

Bliss Milford
(1886–1970)

Rhea Mitchell
(1890–1957)

Joe Moore
(1894–1926)

Louis Morrell
(~1873–1945)

James W. Morrison
(1888–1974)

Harry C. Myers
(1882–1938)

Betty Nansen
(1873–1943)

René Navarre
(1877–1968)

Paul Panzer
(1872–1958)

Augustus Phillips (March 1913)
Augustus Phillips (April 1914)
(1874–1944)

Dorothy Phillips
(1889–1980)

William H. Power
(1880–19??)

Valdemar Psilander
(1884–1917)

William V. Ranous
(1857–1915)

Herbert Rawlinson
(1885–1953)

Charles Ray
(1891–1943)

Claire Ray
(19??–19??)

Whitney Raymond
(18??–19??)

Charles B. Ross
(18??–19??)

Mary Ryan
(1885–1948)

Jackie Saunders
(1892–1954)

William E. Shay
(1866–19??)

William Shea
(1856–1918)

Will E. Sheerer (May 1914)
Will E. Sheerer (January 1915)
(1871–1915)

J. Barney Sherry
(1874–1944)

Phillips Smalley
(1865–1939)

Myrtle Stedman
(1883–1938)

Edith Storey
(1892–1967)

Blanche Sweet
(1896–1986)

Norma Talmadge
(1894–1957)

William Desmond Taylor
(1872–1922)

Frederick Truesdell
(~1870–1929)

(1887–1939)

Harry von Meter
(1871–1956)

Henry B. Walthall
(1878–1936)

Bryant Washburn
(1889–1963)

Lois Weber
(1879–1939)

Crane Wilbur
(1886–1973)

Clara Williams (September 1912)
Clara Williams (August 1914)
(1888–1928)

Earle Williams
(1880–1927)

Ben F. Wilson
(1876–1930)

Eleanor Woodruff
(1891–1980)