Natalie Kingston — Dancing Her Way to Fame (1925) 🇺🇸

Natalie Kingston is known as the girl who stopped the show at the Writer’s Revue, for that was the turning point in her career.

It was in a travesty on The Thief of Bagdad that Miss Kingston at the last moment replaced Mae Murray, who was scheduled to do her famed pirouettes as the Princess. As soon as her dance was finished and the entr’acte was on a half dozen nabobs of the feature film world rushed up to engage her.

Miss Kingston is under contract to Sennett’s [Mack Sennett], where she has exhibited sufficient versatility as a performer in the comedies to do both leads and vamps. You may have noticed her with Ben Turpin in the parody on “Romeo and Juliet.” She plays opposite Harry Langdon in one of his latest, “All Night Long.”

A Californian by birth, Miss Kingston made her début professionally as a cabaret entertainer in San Francisco. Dancing, of course, was her specialty.

Before she actually began work in the comedies she did some dancing for several of the pictures in which Cecil De Mille [Cecil B. DeMille] had his habitually dazzling interludes.

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Photo by: George Frederic Cannons

Collection: Picture Play Magazine, March 1925