Mollie King, Star of “Kick In,” Began Stage Career Early (1916) 🇺🇸

One of the latest screen players to join Astra for Pathé releases appeared in important child part with Maxine Elliott in “Her Own Way”

One of the latest screen stars engaged for the Pathé Gold Rooster productions is Mollie King, who is featured in Kick In, which has just been produced by the Astra Film Corporation. Miss King also plays the lead in a serial now being made for Pathé.

Kick In is a famous Woods’ [A. H. Woods] success, which will be released in a short time, and in which Miss King was co-starred with William Courtenay.

Mollie King was born in New York City on April 18, 1898. She attended the New York Public schools, graduating from Wadleigh High School. Her first stage appearance was at the age of eight months, and she has been on the stage ever since. She played in several Broadway successes, and was a feature at the Winter Garden after a two-year tour of the Orpheum Vaudeville Circus, where she and her sister Nellie did a sister act. She has been starred in several of the productions of the World Film Corporation, and is well known to the motion picture audience throughout the country.

She is of fair complexion with reddish blond hair and hazel eyes. Miss King can sing and dance charmingly as millions of vaudeville fans throughout the country can attest.

Mollie King’s first actual stage engagement after she had passed the infant age, was an important child part she played with Maxine Elliott in Her Own Way. She was then seven years old, and made a hit both in New York and in London. As a child actress she also played in The Royal Family and The Little Princess as well as with the leading Denman Thompson in his vaudeville sketch Joshua Whitcomb.

After leaving school, Miss King acted as an understudy for Elizabeth Brice, in the musical comedy The Winsome Widow, playing the star’s part on many occasions. She was then fifteen years old. Afterwards she played a season in vaudeville with her sister Nellie, then filled an engagement with the Passing Show at the Winter Garden, and then supported Sam Bernard in The Belle of Bond Street.

Miss King comes from a theatrical family. Her brother Charlie King [Charles King (1886–1944)] is known through the world as a member of the famous team of Brice and King, and her sister Nellie [Nellie King] is a vaudeville artist.

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Little Zoe Rae Featured in “Gloriana,” a Bluebird

“A Stranger from Somewhere” is scheduled for November 13, “The Measure of a Man” is set for the 20th, and “The Bugler of Algiers” comes on the 27th

Bluebird exhibitors will be concerned in the statement that the releases on that program for November are considered by the manufacturer to comprise the best attractions they have released in any month since the series started.

Little Zoe Rae will be featured among a company of children and grown-ups in Gloriana, to be released the day before election.

A Stranger from Somewhere, scheduled for November 13, will advance a novelty in photoplay construction. Franklyn Farnum and Agnes Vernon will be the featured ones, in a company otherwise including Arthur Hoyt, Helen Wright, Barney Furey and Claire MacDowell. Willis Woods provided the scenario, and William Worthington directed. The play starts as a drama, and when everything is ready for serious business the complications run into comedy finishing with a surprise.

The Measure of a Man will be the release for November 20, with J. Warren Kerrigan and Louise Lovely playing the leading roles. These players were individual stars in earlier Bluebirds, but recently joined forces in The Social Buccaneer. Jack Conway, who has been Mr. Kerrigan’s director for a long time, produced the feature from a story by Norman Duncan. The scenes are located in the Sierra Nevadas, and a new type of rugged drama is pictured.

On November 27 The Bugler of Algiers will be released, and in this feature Bluebird believes it will have the most widely discussed feature since Shoes. While totally different in theme than the last-named feature, The Bugler of Algiers is such a remarkable photoplay that it will surely cause comment, in the opinion of its manufacturers. Robert H. Davis, editor of Munsey’s Magazine, in collaboration with Perley Poore Sheehan, wrote the story, We Are French, upon which the picture is based. Rupert Julian directed the production, and will be featured, along with Ella Hall and Kingsley Benedict.

Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1916

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see also Charles Mortimer Peck — Scenario Man (1916)

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Mollie King comes from a theatrical family. Her sister Nellie and her brother Charles are well known on the stage. She has starred in A Woman’s Power, Fate’s Boomerang and The Summer Girl, all of which were World pictures.

Miss King was selected from one hundred and fifty candidates for a part in the Pathé serial, Kick-in. It was necessary to buy her release from the World Company in order to take this part.

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, December 1916