Doris Lloyd — A Favorite Among the Stars (1927) 🇺🇸

She has played on the Hollywood stage before audiences of film people time and again, and has won their enthusiastic plaudits.

She has been acclaimed on all sides as an intensely clever actress, yet has never been given a real chance before the camera. That has been the unique experience of Doris Lloyd in Hollywood.

Miss Lloyd is only just beginning to make any headway in the movies, after having lived in the picture colony for all of three or four years. Until recently, she has appeared Very infrequently on the screen, yet is very well-known among the film folk themselves.

Her recent work has included rôles in “Exit Smiling,” “The Auctioneer,” and “Is Zat So?” Also, she was the girl crook in Lon Chaney’s “The Black Bird.” She is essentially a character type, but is not limited to character work.

Miss Lloyd first began to attract attention in Hollywood through her work in short plays given at the Writers’ Club. She is great in hard-boiled rôles, but can also do the grande dame to perfection, and has on occasion even essayed very sympathetic, somewhat poetical parts. Versatility is the mark of her work in the spoken drama, and it is to be hoped that she will be able to bring this to the screen.

It was in the Norma Talmadge production, “The Lady,” that Miss Lloyd gained her first important screen opportunity. Even after such a good start, however, further chances came slowly.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, August 1927