Louise Owen, Vogue “Heavy” (1916) 🇺🇸

Louise Alva Owen, vampire (on the screen), the pretty brunnette girl who plays “heavies” in Vogue comedies under the direction of Jack Dillon.

Miss Owen is the athletic type who would much rather take long walks in the foothills than sit at home doing embroidery or playing with the cat.

Prior to her signing up with Vogue, Louise acted important roles in both comedy and drama companies on the Pacific coast, and is graduated from Broadway, having played in several Winter Garden productions.

Miss Owen is a pantomine artist of marked ability, and carries the roles, in which she is cast, with a deft precision resulting from a thorough understanding of screen values.

One of this charming girl’s weaknesses is strawberry ice cream. In this she indulges a fond appetite — entertaining the while, a hearty contempt of anything that smacks of temperament — she admires a good old fashioned “corn-beef-and-cabbage” genuineness and despises the “pink tea” temperamental variety of up-stage insincerity.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1916

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see also Thomas Commerford (1916)