Leah Giunchi — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1913) 🇺🇸

Leah Giunchi [Lea Giunchi] has played leads for the Kleine-Cines Company for more than three years.

Naturally, she designates Quo Vadis? as the very best thing she has done in pictures.

She is twenty-six years old, rides like a Centaur, is a splendid swimmer, and a master with the foils. From the beautiful, serious-minded, religious Lygia to the rough and ready girl of the West is a long step, yet that suggests Miss Giunchi’s most remarkable ability.

She can play the vampire woman, the budding society belle, the widowed mother, the middle-aged woman of fashion with equal ease, and when it comes to jumping from a four-story building, hanging by her arms from the top of a high bridge, carrying on a knife duel in the middle of a stream of water, riding a bareback horse at breakneck speed, and doing similar hazardous stunts to amuse a fickle public, Leah is always the one selected for the work.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, August 1913