Clara Kimball Young — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Poets have written, minstrels have sung, philosophers have debated and lovers have raved about women’s eyes throughout the centuries. All the mysteries of womanhood seem to center in these “windows of the soul.”

The effect of feminine orbs upon affairs of nations, as well as individuals, has written pages into history, and still the light that lies in woman’s eyes continues to make mere man her slave.

In modern times this slavery has reached a much higher point, for Clara Kimball Young has been turning her glorious orbs upon mankind for years, ever adding to her list of admirers in almost every corner of the earth.

The only rival of the Kimball eyes, in her film productions, is the gracious young star herself, with her remarkable control over the feelings of audiences, from the motion picture screen, a thing cold in its very makeup.

The star was born in Chicago, Ill., September 6, 1893. Her career never was in doubt, for both the father. Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern, the mother, were notable stage folk. Little Clara appeared upon the stage with her parents at the age of three years. Then there was a long period of education at St. Xavier’s Academy Music appealed as well as the arts. She began a study of both and, during her professional career later, she made constant advancement in these “fads.”

Miss Young began her picture career in some of the best known plays. Her first was “My Official Wife,” Then followed appearances in “Camille,” “The Yellow Passport,” “The Feast of Life,” “The Foolish Virgin,” “Magda,” “The Easiest Way,” “The Rise of Susan,” “The Savage Woman” and “The Claw.”

She early organized her own producing company at Edendale, a suburb of Los Angeles, where she still is working. Among more recent Clara Kimball Young productions are: “The Common Law,” Enter Madame, “Clementina the Glorious,” “Eyes of Youth,” and “The Soul of Raphael.”

She is five feet, four inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. Her dark brown eyes and black hair are much admired for then beauty.

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The camera caught Miss Young while vacationing at Mt. Rainier.

Clara Kimball Young lives in one of the more majestic homes in Los Angeles.

Portrait by W. F. Seely • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)