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

Alice Terry’s rise in motion pictures was fast and sure, once she secured a foothold on the ladder of success.

She is 21 years old and was born in Vincennes, Indiana. She went to school there and in Los Angeles, where she started her professional career doing small parts in motion pictures.

Her real chance came when Rex Ingram began casting for his production of Hearts and Trumps. He had seen her in the role of an “extra” in one of his other pictures, and realizing that she possessed that indefinable something which is a screen requisite, he selected her for an important role.

It was while she was working in her first feature production that romance entered into the scheme of things and after she completed her second leading role she was married. They are proclaimed as one of the most ideally happy couples in filmland. Her real name is now Mrs. Rex Ingram, although she continues her screen work under her husband’s direction.

Miss Terry fulfilled all the director’s hopes in Hearts and Trumps, and was rewarded by receiving the role of the heroine in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. She next appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda, Where the Pavement Ends and Scaramouche.

Miss Terry weighs 120 pounds, is five feet three inches tall. She has blue eyes and brown hair, although for the screen she has adopted a blonde wig.

The Ingrams have one of the most beautiful homes in the Hollywood vicinity. It is a hillside showplace, with beautiful terraced grounds that extend far down the slope.

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It’s no wonder that Alice Terry has such a sweet screen personality with her director-husband (Rex Ingram) to humor her between scenes.

The hilltop home of Miss Terry was designed by Mr. Ingram, who is an artist as well as a director.

Portrait by Hoover • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)