Edna Marion — From the Movie Training School (1926) 🇺🇸

The good old rubber-stamp remark that “comedies are the stepping-stone to fame” will have to be resurrected from the pigeonhole once again, and there is an especial reason to celebrate on this occasion, because little Edna Marion, the Century Comedy girl, has won her first chance in feature. She has been playing a sprightly ingénue in “The Still Alarm,” produced by Universal.

What more natural than that the U, on casting about for new talent, should turn their eyes toward the little girl, in a related organization, who had been making a good record for a year by earnest trouping in the slapstick? The comedies in which she had appeared had been small-time affairs, just to fill out a routine program; the gags had been moth-eaten, many of them, but little Edna had consistently registered pep and personality.

She is a bright-eyed little girl, who reminds one just a trifle of the late Lucille Ricksen. She has demureness and sweetness, as well as sparkle and animation. Her talent for comedy, which will continue to be disclosed in the new phase of her career, will doubtless carry her rapidly toward popularity. The difficulties that face her have been minimized, because of the strenuous course she has already had in the filmmaking mill. A reel or more a week is, of course, the rule with all who are engaged in making program short-reelers.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1926