Gertrude Forbes — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Gertrude Forbes is grouch-proof. She never has one; they’re annoying, they’re also fatal to beauty and digestion so why entertain them?

“Don’t,” advises Miss Forbes, who is one of the world’s few people who follows her own advice. However, if you insist upon having a grouch Miss Forbes requests that you take it not to a picture show and saddle the performance with it, for that would do the players an injustice.

But the Essanay Film Company is of the opinion that Miss Forbes can dispel any and all grouches, and those who have seen the pretty dark-haired actress riot through fun films are sure of it. Her mirth is contagious and she has as much joy playing “funnies” as the people who pay their respective five and ten-cent pieces to see her do it.

Before “taking to pictures” Miss Forbes played in Harris and Brady productions, and was a laugh-maker in Mr. Dimple’s Dimple.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, September 1913