Ruth McTammany as Alma (1917) 🇺🇸
Ruth McTammany, now known to the trade as The Girl from Rector’s, is on the film-path with a vengeance, and now promises some sensational releases. Miss McTammany, unlike most professional folk, is a business girl of more than ordinary ability. At the head of her own producing company, she is now preparing as her next novelty offering a film version of the operetta, Alma, Where Do You Live?
This play had a sensational run both here and in Europe, having made a record on the road in the United States.
The chic, piquant art of the star never had a more opportune vehicle than the role of Alma. The play is one of the shining examples of European musical comedy, in which the plots are given as prominent treatment as the music. It will be remembered that one of the strongest features of George M. Cohan’s first film appearance was the fact that many of the bright passages from the play, Broadway Jones, are introduced in the titles. In this respect the possibilities of the lines from Alma are particularly alluring and will be advantageously employed.
Hal Clarendon, who is Miss McTammany’s stage director, is now at work adapting the manuscript for the screen in six reels. Alma will be made in one of the Eastern studios, with a supporting cast that will furnish for Miss McTammany a setting of ability and beauty.
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Collection: Moving Picture World, April 1917
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