Olive Fuller Golden (1916) 🇺🇸

“I am the eldest daughter of George Fuller Golden, founder of the White Rats of America, one of the greatest organizations for actors in existence, and I’m proud of it!” says Pretty Olive Golden of the Rex-Universal forces.

Miss Golden is only eighteen years old, but she has been in pictures for two years, appearing in film stories of the Famous Players, Biograph and Lubin [Siegmund Lubin] companies. She is now one of the Universal City colony in Los Angeles, where she has just completed her role in A Knight of the Range, the thrilling Western drama featuring Harry Carey. She thinks she played to best advantage in Tess of the Storm Country, in which she finely played the unfortunate girl befriended by Tess. But she was perhaps most warmly welcomed by her ever-increasing public when she played the lead in the third Terence O’Rourke series [Transcriber’s Note: This probably refers to A Captain of Villainy (1915)]. She says that her favorite parts are “hussies.”

Her nickname of “Goldie” describes her very well, for she is fair, with blonde hair. She is over average height, but neither tall nor short, and has a slender, supple figure. She loves to read, and she is the author of several scenarios. She was educated in London. England, where she learned to ride and swim, and these sports, with dancing, are her favorite amusements. Her hobby is hats, and she says she is afraid that she is a wee bit extravagant where millinery is concerned.

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Famous Players-Mary Pickford Co.

Most popular of actresses closes contract with Adolph Zukor whereby she retains half interest in new organization.

All doubt concerning the future affiliations of Mary Pickford was permanently dispelled recently by the announcement that she has decided to remain with the Famous Players Film Company, the first feature organization with which she was identified.

The new agreement into which Miss Pickford has entered with Adolph Zukor, president of the Famous Players Company, includes the formation of the Famous Players-Mary Pickford Company for the making of feature productions in which Miss Pickford is to be starred, and in which the star retains a half interest.

The story of Mary Pickford has no parallel in the history of the theater or of the screen. A young girl in her early twenties, she has amassed a fortune, and is today the highest paid woman in the picture world. Large as the salaries which are paid successful actors and actresses are known to be, there has never been a player whose compensation approached that of this little golden-haired star.

Mr. Zukor, in discussing the new arrangement with Miss Pickford, declared that the formation of the new company enabled him to carry out several big projects which he contemplated for the coming year.

‘Miss Pickford is unquestionably the most popular screen artiste today, but I do not by any means believe that she has reached the pinnacle of her fame. Her wonderful work in such widely different films as Tess, Madame  Butterfly, The Foundling, and some of her other recent productions, proves conclusively that Miss Pickford, superb as she has been, is steadily improving her artistry.”

Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1916