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

Leah 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