Ethel Grey Terry — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

The story of Ethel Grey Terry’s screen career is almost like that of “The Bluebird.”

She was born in Oakland, California, but was sent to Roxbury, Mass., where she remained in Notre Dame Academy for seven years. During that time she studied water color and oil painting. After leaving school she continued her art work and planned a career as an artist.

Her plans did not exactly go astray, because she became an artist, but not of the brush and paint order. She first went upon the stage.

Her first appearance was in Belasco’s production, The Lily. She remained with that show during its run of two years. At the end of that time she was engaged by the Schuberts. That engagement lasted four years, when Miss Terry went on the road.

Then the wanderlust took her all through the United States, where she played in various stock companies.

Returning to California, Miss Terry found that the motion picture industry had taken hold there and that it was the profession that seemed to suit her taste. So she settled once again in the land of her birth, where she played leads in many noted films.

One of her best opportunities was given her in the first full-length feature that Mack Sennett made. It was a seven-reel melodrama titled “The Crossroads of New York.” Miss Terry played the “heavy” role successfully.

Other companies demanded her services and she followed up her first success with leads opposite Edward Horton [Edward Everett Horton] in “Too Much Business,” with Harry Carey in “The Kick-Back,” and other noted male stars, such as William Hart [William S. Hart], Dustin Farnum, Hobart Bosworth and Lon Chaney.

Among her hobbies are tennis, golf, piano, swimming and her home. But her pet hobby is still painting.

Miss Terry has brown hair and gray eyes. She is five feet tall and weighs 128 pounds.

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Ethel Grey Terry enjoys outdoor life. At the left she is driving her car with her two pet Alaskan dogs.

(Above) Waiting at the station for the mail train to come in. That was taken up at Truckee. At the right she again exhibits the pedigreed dogs.

Portrait by Melbourne Spurr • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)