Robert Vaughn — Thanhouser Leading Man (1917) 🇺🇸

Robert Vaughn, Thanhouser leading man, has a number of invaluable picture assets — a hero’s irresistible smile, a vilyun’s terribly contorted face when enraged, an extensive gratifying stage experience and a colorful offstage career that makes it easy for the press agent to write pieces about him.

Mr. Vaughn exercised his fiendish potentialities in Her New York, the recently released Thanhouser-Pathé Gold Rooster Play.

He is a most captivating lover in Mary Lawson’s Secret, in which Charlotte Walker is starred. Mary Lawson’s Secret is to be released in April.

Mr. Vaughn was Miss Walker’s leading man in A Woman’s Way, a play written by her husband, Eugene Walter. [Transcriber’s Note: A Woman’s Way may refer to a stage play or to an undocumented movie. Eugene Walter’s film credits include the similarly named Just a Woman (1918) and The Way of a Woman (1919), but both movies neither starred Charlotte Walker nor Robert Vaughn]

When Edwin Thanhouser engaged Miss Walker for Mary Lawson’s Secret, she made a special request that Mr. Vaughn appear with her. However, at that time he was Robert Vaughn, just finishing up Her New York and was in the midst of The Vicar of Wakefield, in which he has the important part of Squire Thornhill. To accommodate Miss Walker, Mr. Vaughn arranged a schedule of his time for the next few weeks and worked in three pictures at once.

Mr. Vaughn is a native of St. Louis. He attended Washington University in that city and studied to be an artist. He went abroad and took a course in decorative art and mural painting in Munich, Germany. So successful was he that he received a commission to make the mural decorations in the Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois buildings at the St. Louis Exposition. He wanted to be an actor, however — and everybody’s happy.

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Collection: Moving Picture World, January 1917