Lillian Walker — My Lady o’ the Dimples (1917) 🇺🇸

She wanted to play serious roles — but her dimples said her nay!

When Lillian Walker’s merry smile, with its generous display of white teeth and two deep dimples, bubbled over the footlights from the ranks of Gus Edwards’ School Boys and Girls, her fortune was made.

From there to pictures was an easy step — made still easier by those self-same dimples, aided and abetted by a merry twinkle in eyes of cerulean blue.

So when she went to Vitagraph she was assigned to a comedy director. For a long, long time she played comedies and did what she was told with a cheery good-nature that made her popular.

But it is a well-known fact that the tragedienne yearns for comedy, and vice versa. So it’s perfectly natural that, in time, the desire for dramatic, emotional work should come to Miss Dimples.

So, with much misgiving and puzzled headshakes, she was given the script for The Ordeal of Elizabeth. Lady Dimples emerged from the emotional scenes with colors flying.

Since then she has played Hesper of the Mountains, The Man at the Curtain and Indiscretion, in a way that does credit to her.

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Photo by H. Tarr

Collection: Motion Picture Magazine, March 1917