Hallam Cooley — Too Good a Trouper (1925) 🇺🇸

Though he has been in movies for eleven years, only recently has Hallam Cooley appeared in featured casts.

But in the last two years he has played in twenty-one pictures, most of them of the better sort. An enviable record.

Many circumstances have combined to cause this seeming neglect, for so long, of good screen material. First, he “trouped” instead of specializing; that is, he played every sort of character. And that is not the way to become known. He never happened to be cast in one of those startling successes that sweep all concerned in their filming, even the players of small rôles, into the spotlight’s glamour. And he believed that publicity and attention to fan mail in no way benefited an actor — an opinion which he has recently reversed. One year work fell off and he made more money in the real-estate business as a side line than at acting.

Douglas MacLean, however, gave him a real opportunity in “Going Up” and Never Say Die, and so many engagements have been offered him lately that just now he is acting in Charles Ray’s “Some Pumpkins,” and in a Christie [Al Christie] feature-length comedy, “Stop Flirting,” at the same time.

He is a good-looking young chap, amiable of disposition, with a mania for sports — he has cornered a record or two — and has a quality of personal charm which, given individual rôles, should bring him into greater favor.

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Photo by: Keystone Photo Service

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, July 1925