Edwin Carewe — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸

Edwin Carewe has had a long and varied career in the motion picture industry as producer, actor and director. There is little about the production end he is not familiar with and it is not surprising that he has been identified with some of the most successful pictures.

Born in Gainesville, Texas, Carewe was well educated in the public schools in that state and at the Universities of Texas and Missouri. His father was a Chickasaw Indian and their representative in Washington.

Carewe started his professional career with the Dearborn Mock Company in 1902 and spent five months with them in repertoire. For several years following he was with various stock companies before making his first appearance in New York with Chauncey Olcott in O’Neill of Darcy. Among the famous stage stars in whose support he appeared were Otis Skinner, Rose Coghlan, Laurette Taylor and Weber and Fields [Lew Fields | Joe Weber].

He then made his first picture, in which he also acted, with Walker Whiteside in “The Typhoon.” He was engaged by the Lubin Company for a tour of the world to make pictures as they went. The tour started at Washington and some pictures were made at Fort Meyer. After seven months he returned to Philadelphia and was co-starred with Ormi Hawley in a series of pictures.

The first picture of importance in which he appeared was “The Inside of the White Slave Traffic,” which created a furore. His first directorial effort was “Across the Pacific” for Blaney Brothers. It was in this picture that Dorothy Dalton made her debut.

For five years Carewe was associated with B. A. Rolfe of the Metro Company. He directed and played the leading role in “Three of Us,” with Mabel Taliaferro. A long line of successes followed his advent into the industry as a director. Among these may be mentioned “Madonna of the Streets,” “The Bad Man,” “Son of the Sahara,” The Girl of the Golden West, “Mighty Lak’ a Rose,” and others. His latest efforts were “Resurrection” for Inspiration Pictures and Ramona for the same company, both of which star Dolores Del Río, and are released through United Artists.

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Edwin Carewe

In Conjunction  with Inspiration Pictures, Inc.

• Producing Helen Hunt Jackson’s Story Ramona, starring Dolores del Río, for United Artists Release

Now Released

• Resurrection

(both film stories by Finis Fox)

Inspiration Pictures, Inc.

Walter Camp, Jr., President

J. Boyce-Smith, Vice-President

Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1927 (Booking Guide and Studio Directory)