Cora Williams — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Cora Williams has been in the Edison company for two years playing character parts and she is known as “The girl with the dimples.”

They are wonderful dimples as film-goers know; but filmgoers do not know perhaps, that a voice even more wonderful goes with them. It was her voice and her dimples which inspired the composition of the light opera, The Laughing Girl, which was known better in Europe than in this country.

Here, it developed into the popular Three Twins comic opera in which Miss Williams did not appear. She sang in many operatic productions, her years on the legitimate stage having been twenty. Four of these were in dramatic stock and two in operatic stock.

After spending several years abroad, she applied to the Edison studio and her first trial resulted in her staying.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1914