Clara Smith — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Mrs. Clara Reynolds Smith plays character parts in film stories told by the Essanay eastern companies and is greatly liked for her versatile work.

It was as a dramatic reader that Mrs. Smith began her work before the public; the Lyceum platform knew her well twenty years ago, and for a time she held the chair of oratory in Deland College, now Deland University, Deland, Fla.

As Mrs. Goodly in What Happened to Jones? she courted popularity with theatergoers and since then has played a wide range of parts in eastern and western stock and supported, among other stars, Amelia Bingham, Victor Moore and Wm. Collier.

As the German mother in Augustus Thomas’ When It Comes Home, she said her good-byes to New York and accepted the position offered her by the Essanay company at its Chicago studio. It was her first appearance in “pics” and she liked it so well she stayed.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1913