Frances Dale — She Can’t Grow Young Again (1926) 🇺🇸

To see Frances Dale, you would never think that her first chance on the screen was in a mother rôle, and that she did her part so well that forever after, producers refused to consider her for anything else!

But such is the case. She achieved her first recognition as a mother, in “Lovers’ Land.” The chief reason she is not seen oftener is because it appears to have been impossible for her to grow young again since that time. In “Feet of Clay,” she had a lot of work to do in the studio, but when the film finally showed on the screen, the only bit left of her was her legs in the surf-board race.

Miss Dale is one of the players that have been attracted from the stage during the last year or so. Like many others, she has found that her experience in the spoken drama has been a drawback rather than an aid.

Nevertheless, her stage experience is likely to prove of value as Miss Dale goes on. She is an exceptionally bright and clever girl. She would, in fact, be termed somewhat sophisticated by some of the mental lightweights around Hollywood, but if she is sophisticated it is in an attractive way;

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Photo by: Henry Waxman

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1926