Lillian Gish — Real Tales About Reel Folk (1914) 🇺🇸
Lillian Gish, the attractive Majestic star, has several blisters on each hand which she won while repainting her dressing room recently at the Hollywood studios.
Miss Gish likes to have her working surroundings dainty and artistic, so, being off duty for a day, she decided to devote it to redecorating her “boudoir”.
She started to work very early in the morning, and long after sunset found her still at it. A half hour for lunch was all the respite she permitted herself. First she painted the walls with a soft, flat tone, patting the wet surface with the brush to make a velvety uneven effect. Then she oiled the floors. In spite of the bad blisters, she says that her hard job paid.
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Responding to the ever increasing demand by the motion picture public for the production of allegorical plays, the forces of Thomas H. Ince have commenced work at the studios of the New York Motion Picture Corporation on a three part feature, to be entitled, Rumpelstiltskin. According to advance information which has sifted out of the Mutual Santa Monica plant, the piece will far surpass anything of its kind ever attempted in the motion picture industry. Seldom in the history of film production has the interpretation of a fable been given such complete and expert attention as this newest and best of its characters from the pens of Mr. Ince and William H. Clifford is receiving.
Rumpelstiltskin is the story of a wicked dwarf and his nefarious designs upon the beautiful daughter of the miller, Jim Crow. The hideous creature steals the child and is pursued by the handsome Prince Chap of Fairyland. Restoration results from the chase, and they “live happily ever afterward”. The piece is replete with scenes of splendor that only the hand and brain of the master craftsman can construct. Caves, grottoes and other such weird and eerie domiciles of elves and goblins are being portrayed with an uncanny realism that Hans Christian Andersen would have loved to inject into his fairy tales.
Principals in the cast are Elizabeth Burbridge, as Polly, the miller’s daughter ; Webster Campbell, as the Prince; Margaret Thompson, as the good fairy, and J. Barney Sherry, as the miller. Rumpelstiltskin is released in the Mutual Program.
Collection: Reel Life Magazine, October 1914
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