Blanche Sweet — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Blanche Sweet, the young actress, who as leading lady for the Biograph Company has become one of the best known stars in the screen world, has signed a contract to appear exclusively in Mutual motion pictures.

As a star in Mutual photoplays Miss Sweet will again be under the direction of D. W. Griffith, who schooled her in her art and staged most of the dramas in which she has appeared.

Although Blanche is only nineteen years of age she is recognized as one of the greatest emotional actresses in the silent drama. She plays light ingénue roles or portrays extreme characters with equal cleverness.

A remarkable case is recorded on the film in which she played the part of a woman of thirty-four years of age and successfully changed to a woman of forty without the aid of makeup.

She showed the difference in years merely by her finished knowledge of the art of facial expression.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, February 1914