Adele Farrington (1915) 🇺🇸
Miss Adele Farrington has been engaged especially for the lead in This is the Life, the third of the famous Buck Parvin series from the pen of Charles E. Van Loan now in production at the Santa Barbara studio of the American Film Company, Inc.
Miss Farrington essays the role of Mrs. Addie Gribble, a lay person afflicted with an unconquerable ambition to shine as a picture star. The author has woven into the story a cascade of gems from his storehouse of fun, and Director William Bertram has made an accurate and effective transition.
As Mrs. Gribble Miss Farrington insists that she be permitted to perform all sorts of remarkable stunts, that her rise to stardom may be the more quickly accomplished. And the director lets her have her own way with the result that This is the Life is filled with thrill after thrill.
She is lowered from the roof of a burning building and left suspended in midair, while flames and smoke encompass her, and then forced to endure the ordeal of a good drenching from a hose in the hands of the local fire fighters.
Also she drops from the branches of a tree into a deep and slimy pool of stagnant water. Miss Farrington has the support of Art Acord, as Buck Parvin. The fourth of the Van Loan series is now being adapted by William Pigott and will be called Film Tempo.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, October 1915
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