Alice Calhoun — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

One of screenland’s beautiful young stars, “who wears clothes delightfully” and whose refinement and daintiness are only equalled by her film performances, was recruited from Cleveland, O., the birthplace of this artist, Alice Calhoun.

The vivacious girl grew up without special aim in life save that of securing an education but, it is said, she always exhibited a certain attractive poise combined with absolute naturalness, in girlhood days.

She pursued her studies in the East High School and Shaw High School of Cleveland, completing her education through private tutorage.

Unlike many others, she did not secure her desire for professional life through a beginner’s experience upon the stage. Instead she made no attempt to enter the theater by the magical door.

The screen did attract her, however, even though the footlights had made no appeal. Pathé, one of the early organizations, first secured Miss Calhoun’s efforts.

Her debut for this company was during 1917, in the play, “How Could You, Caroline?” Other plays followed, and from “bits” she was advanced to better parts.

Throughout this time Miss Calhoun turned a deaf ear to pleasure, and drove at her work studiously, unrelentingly and with all her powers, for she determined to make a big success of her one and only chosen vocation.

Undoubtedly there was inborn ability behind it all, but the artist’s beauty, her unaffectedness and a charm all her own, soon commanded greater recognition.

Then she entered stardom. The majority of fans will easily remember Miss Calhoun in her first starring vehicle, “Princess Jones,” a comedy-drama for Vitagraph, in which she scored so decidedly that the girl from Riverside Drive, changed her address to Hollywood, and has been a star ever since.

Miss Calhoun has golden brown hair and hazel eyes. She weighs 116 pounds. She has quiet tastes and is devoted to home and literature.

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Portrait by C. Heighton Monroe • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)