Rhea Mitchell — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Rhea Mitchell has been called the “stunt girl” of the New York Motion Picture Corporation’s studio because of the roles she has taken which required her jumping off cliffs, being rescued from burning ships, getting lost in swamps and quick sands, and several times drowning — in pictures.

Her birthplace is Portland, Oregon. Immediately after finishing school she entered theatricals via the Baker Stock Company and has played in every city on the Pacific Coast with the exception of Los Angeles.

As leading lady opposite Sydney Ayres she played a whole season in a dramatic sketch over the Orpheum Theater Circuit.

While playing ingénue leads at the Alcanzar Theater in San Francisco Miss Mitchell became interested in motion pictures and soon joined the Kay-Bee, Broncho, and Domino forces.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, August 1914