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

Alice Lake didn’t need to look for the silver spoon when she first saw light of day. She had brought her dancing shoes along, and with them she made her way over the boards of the footlighted stage to the kleig lighted ones, and into the range of the camera and success.

Miss Lake was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., September 12, 1898. It was there, too, that she went to school. In her later school days she took a great interest in amateur theatricals and pantomime dancing. Local success fired her ambition and she danced on the legitimate stage for some time.

It was when one of the first big motion picture companies opened a studio in Brooklyn that Miss Lake became curious as to the possibilities of the silent drama, and there at the old Vitagraph company she played for the first time before the camera. At that time Mack Sennett, the comedy producer, was in New York and saw Miss Lake working. Later when he returned to Los Angeles he sent for her to come out and join the Keystone company, where he was director-general at the time.

The next step she took was one that started her on the road to stardom. She was chosen to play a lead with Herbert Rawlinson in one of Universal’s big specials, “Come Through,” a crook play.

After that Miss Lake was in demand by the large producing companies and was soon under contract with Metro.

After playing featured parts she was given the starring role in “Should a Woman Tell?” “Shore Acres,” “The Misfit Wife,” “Body and Soul,” “The Greater Gain” and “Uncharted Seas.”

Her recent pictures are “I Am the Law,” an Edwin Carew production, “Environment,” an Irving Cummings production, “Matrimony” for Selznick, and “Red Lights” for Goldwyn.

Miss Lake’s hobbies are swimming, dancing and golf. She has brown hair and eyes, weighs 114 pounds and is five feet, three inches tall.

She lives in “Hollywood on the boulevard.”

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Portrait by Witzel • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)