Gloria Joy — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸
Stepping successively from juvenile parts in dramatic stock to a headliner position in vaudeville and then into motion pictures at the head of her own company, Gloria Joy, at eleven years of age, is today the foremost theatrical personality of adolescent age.
Making her debut when three years old, Gloria appeared with the famous Majestic and Morosco stock companies in Los Angeles, playing a complete repertoire of child roles in modern drama in the course of her engagement.
After a flyer in vaudeville, Sherwood MacDonald, the motion picture director placed Gloria in pictures, and she was featured in four states’ rights productions of five reels — “Sally-O,” “Miss Mischief-Maker,” “Little Miss Grown-Up” and “No Children Wanted.” This series was followed by three two-reelers for Pathé entitled “Fortunes of Corinne,” “Come Here, Corinne” and “I Want to Be a Lady.”
Then vaudeville again claimed her, and she became a great Pantages’ favorite, appearing in a protean act which gave her many-sided opportunities for the display of her versatility. She sang and danced and declaimed herself into the hearts of thousands of vaudeville patrons.
On completion of a tour of many weeks, which served to introduce her in all sections of the great West, she was placed under contract by the Sherwood MacDonald productions, per arrangement with the R-C Pictures Corporation, and has now embarked on a series of twelve two-reel comedy-dramas, the first of which, entitled “Sweet Thirteen,” is now completed.
Miss Joy’s present contract will keep her busy for a year. As ever, since the days of her legitimate stage debut, her tutor accompanies her wherever she goes. She is described as very womanly in spite of her youth, and has remained unspoiled in face of all the fuss admirers have made over her.
The pictures being made with Miss Joy for R-C, it is announced, are not to be confounded as productions with juvenile casts. Adult characters predominate, but Miss Joy, as the child heroine, assumes the featured role.
Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)