Alice Lake Returns (1928) 🇺🇸

Perhaps it is her pronounced resemblance to Norma Talmadge that has kept Alice Lake back.

Perhaps it was premature stardom — that pitfall into which so many players fall before their film destinies have become full-fledged. Perhaps — but what matter? Alice is appearing once again in pictures, and many are jubilant, judging from the letters of inquiry regarding her.

Alice’s association with films dates from the time when Vitagraph was active at their studio in Brooklyn. It reached its peak when she was a star in her own right for Metro before it was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

When she left Metro she was in the mystery plays, “Red Lights” and “The Unknown Purple,” and then took the route of the lesser independents — good pictures, perhaps, but very often poor releases. This was discouraging, and so she took a turn in vaudeville.

Alice is back again, though, determined to buck the film game with a vengeance. She has played in “Roaring Flames,” and “The Angel of Broadway,” with Leatrice Joy, and her most recent effort was in “The Ghost Ship.”

Alice is a diamond in the rough, a girl with a heart of gold and a sense of humor. Perhaps that last is the reason why she has survived setbacks that would have caused most other players to turn their backs on Hollywood. Some time Alice is going to make a great hit, because she has personality and talent and is a great trouper besides.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1928