Norman Kerry — Blue Book of the Screen (1923) 🇺🇸

Norman Kerry came to the cinema without any stage experience whatever.

Kerry first came to Los Angeles from Utah in company with Art Acord. Both of them were broke at the time, and utterly down on their luck. Then by chance Kerry met a man at the Alexandria Hotel who was going out to a studio to sell a new brand of paint. Kerry decided to go with him to see what a motion picture studio looked like.

While Kerry was on the lot a director asked him if he was working. Replying in the negative, Kerry was offered a small part opposite Bessie Barriscale. After that he went to work with Mary Pickford and later appeared with Constance Talmadge at the Fine Arts studio.

In the six years he has played before the camera he has established himself as one of the most popular leading men in the profession.

Kerry was born in Rochester, N. Y., and attended the De Lasalle School in that city. Later he went to St. John’s College at Annapolis, Md.

He has a ruddy complexion, is six feet, two inches in height, and weighs 187 pounds. He has blue eyes and black hair.

Kerry is fond of outdoor sports, particularly polo, swimming and football.

Following the completion of his work in the Universal production of Merry-Go-Round, Kerry was placed under a five-year contract by the company. He plays the role of Captain Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

He lives in Beverly Hills, the exclusive residence section west of Hollywood.

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Portrait by Roman Freulich (1898–1974) • Los Angeles

Collection: The Blue Book of the Screen (1923)