Edna Payne — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Edna Payne has been especially fitted by nature to see and be seen, particularly “seen,” as she is very, very pretty.

That is one reason for her being so well suited to the art of film acting. Another reason is her talent for putting her whole self into whatever character she portrays, so it is no wonder at all that the pictures in which she appears and which are trademarked with the “Clear as a bell” slogan, bespeaking the house of Lubin, get the popularity vote of the photoplay lover.

Miss Edna has been doing picture work for two years; previous to that she did stock company work. Her adaptness at pantomime won for her an offer from the Lubin people, and she likes the work and prospects so well that she has forsaken every legitimate stage hope she ever had.

Miss Payne’s dark type of beauty often leads people to mistake her for French origin, but she is anxious that all who see her shall know her for a true American.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, January 1913