Lillian Walker — The Dresden Doll of the Movies (1916) 🇺🇸

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September 01, 2024

Ever since Lillian Walker played the leading part in The Little Doll’s Dressmaker, in which she was even more charming than usual, she has been identified with dolls, and it has occurred to many that she is very much of a doll herself.

She is not much larger than one; she has the waxen complexion of the daintiest Dresden doll; she has the perfect features of the model doll, and, as for dimples, what doll can boast of such beautiful ones as the fair Lillian? Miss Walker made another big hit in Green Stockings, which was so admirably directed by Wilfrid North, now her regular director, and also in Doctor Polly and Lily of the Valley.

The title of “Dimples” has stuck to Miss Walker for a long time, and that is her nickname at the studio; but now it will, perhaps, be changed to “The Doll-Lady of the Movies” — season with the word “Dimpled” and you have her complete. Among her friends in the “profesh,” however, Lillian Walker is known as “Daredevil Lil,” having earned this soubriquet thru her ability to do all kinds of athletic stunts. In Love, Luck and Gasoline, for instance, the dimpled ingénue star won a swimming race, handled the tiller of a racing craft and steered a sea-plane thru the clouds — she is more than ambitious; she has all the qualifications of a duck, having equal command of earth, sea and air. As a diving Venus and danseuse she has turned all the summer girls sea-green with envy.

Lillian Walker — The Dresden Doll of the Movies (1916) | www.vintoz.com

Lillian Walker — Photo by: Floyd

Collection: Motion Picture Classic Magazine, June 1916

Lillian Walker (1916) | www.vintoz.com

Lillian Walker (Vitagraph) — Photo by: Floyd

Collection: Motion Picture Classic Magazine, July 1916