Marie Walcamp — The Golden-Haired Dare-Devil of Trans-Atlantic Serials (1919) 🇬🇧

Possibly because her father was a railway engineer, Marie Walcamp’s first job in pictures was a daring stunt on a locomotive, which she had to drive. She made so deep an impression that a producer picked her out as a forthcoming serial star.

In quick succession she appeared in “Liberty,” “The Red Ace,” and “The Moon Child,” each more successful than its predecessor; and now she is being starred in The Red Glove.

J. P. McGowan calls his leading artiste “Marie Wildcat.” This inspiration originally came from Joe McDonough, the camera-man [Transcriber’s Note: Joseph A. McDonough (1896–1944) was an Assistant Director since at least 1919), who says:

The Poor Camera Man

“When Marie’s working, I never can tell for sure just what’s going to happen, notwithstanding the producer’s directions. She’s just like a wildcat — when she feels the impulse she strikes out — and while the result is always dramatically satisfactory, think of the poor camera-man.

“It’s harder to keep ‘Marie Wildcat’ in front of a camera when she’s on a horse than anything I ever attempted.”

One of the hair-raising things Marie does in her latest picture is to hang on the very edge of a cliff, with sheer death thousands of feet below, and nothing but a flying lasso from a horseman on the other side to save her.

In this picture Marie plays the part of a daughter of the proprietor of a gambling hell, who changes the entire current of a young man’s life. She proves herself absolutely fearless, and this quality, coupled with her lightning judgment and skill, make her one of the real dare-devils of the screen.

There are thrills galore in The Red Glove. Some of the features of the picture are gorilla servants, and a band of villains, called The Vultures.

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Marie Walcamp — an expert horsewoman.

A scene showing Alfred Allen as “Gentleman Geoff” repulsing a raid on his gambling hall. During this scene Alfred Allen was shot in the eye by a man with a revolver and blank cartridge. For a time it was feared he would lose the sight of his eye, but the actor is now progressing satisfactorily.

“She alters the whole course of a young man’s life.”

Marie is the “fair-play” daughter of “Gentleman Geoff,” the proprietor of a gambling saloon.

Heroine of “The Red Glove.”

Collection: Picture Show Magazine, September 1919