Francelia Billington — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Francelia Billington, seen these days in Majestic pictures, is generally known as “the girl the critic made famous.”

Seen in the background of a Thanhouser feature film, she was put into print as being too beautiful to be just a background; thereupon directors searched wildly about for the pretty “extra,” memorized her name and put her into the picture foreground with a leading man opposite, and so well has she interpreted the roles accorded her that her trial as leading lady has given her a permanent right to that title.

From the Thanhouser company she won her way into the Majestic circle, where she has the reputation of being a most versatile little lady. California is the country Miss Billington calls “home;” it was there she had her first picture experience which was also her first stage experience. But ability has put Miss Billington into the class of active film players.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, January 1914