Edith Roberts — A Spirited Heroine (1925) 🇺🇸

Because she is one of the few girls who can put spirit into virtue, Edith Roberts is at present in demand for feature productions in Hollywood, and the next few months will bring her forward in several crook melodramas.

This past season a number of ingénues plunged to the opposite extreme of characterization in an effort to shake off the senseless bondage, of typification. Some were successful, some rather awful. Edith, however, chose the middle path of portrayals spirited and human but fundamentally sympathetic.

Several years ago, the child Edith worshiped King Baggot. Called to a studio for extra work, she was chosen to play a bit. When she saw that the doctor was her ideal, she fainted from sheer joy. In time she became his leading lady and, still later, he directed her. The combination proved a happy one for a while but poor stories and stressed personality tolled the farewell of her stardom.

After a year of illness, she returned to begin all over. Her rôles recently have been more individual than those of her starring days. The “Big-Brother” team of Tom Moore—Edith Roberts again is featured in Warner Brothers’ “Thin Ice.” “The Age of Innocence” offers her a somewhat more gentle rôle.

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Photo by: Edwin Bower Hesser

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1925