Forrest Stanley — Wedded to the Screen at Last (1925) 🇺🇸

After vacillating between stage and screen for several years, Forrest Stanley now has definitely cast his lot with the movies.

Amateur theatricals at Columbia fired him with the ambition to act, which was realized when he played in such melos as The Desperate Chance for eight dollars a week — and cakes. The attention created by The Squaw Man became more marked- when he headed his own company in The Holy City and The Light That Failed. Following a film with the late Anna Held, he played juvenile leads for Lasky, returning then to the stage. Back and forth from electrics to Kleigs, his fortunes led him. With When Knighthood Was in Flower, his determination became fixed and he has not since deserted the movies.

The Schulberg [B. P. Schulberg] production, “The Breath of Scandal,” and the Universal-Jewel, “Up the Ladder,” will next present him. In the latter for the first time he attempts to define a character of more individuality than the usual handsome leading man. The team of winsome Virginia Valli and big, blond, good-looking Stanley should interest the fans.

He is rather skilled in painting and that, with swimming and gardening, serve as hobbies. He has fraternized, both in New York and in the West, with newspaper men and likes to spend hours discussing the big stories that break in the press. When a reporter permits him to tag along when covering an assignment, Stanley is as grateful as any cub would be.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, April 1925