Vintage Movie Resources
Elizabeth Drew (1915) 🇺🇸
Oscar Eagle is responsible for Elizabeth Drew’s advent into motion pictures
Edward Alexander (1915) 🇺🇸
The films Edward Alexander has appeared in have met with high comment regarding his parts
Dorothy Bernard (1915) 🇺🇸
South African-born Dorothy Bernard joins Barry O’Neil’s Lubin company, then Kalem for The Second Commandment, after two years with D. W. Griffith at Biograph.
Donald Brian with Lasky (1915) 🇺🇸
Donald Brian, the Prince of The Merry Widow, signs with Lasky for his photodramatic début; Cecil B. De Mille is preparing a vehicle for him.
David Horsley — A Double Exposure Camera (1915) 🇺🇸
David Horsley has perfected a duplex camera that makes two double-exposed negatives at one time
Claire McDowell (1915) 🇺🇸
After four years and a record number of releases with Biograph, Claire McDowell retires to her Long Island home; she comes from a family connected with the stage for 150 years.
Charles Hirliman (1915) 🇺🇸
Laboratory superintendent Charles Hirliman, master of tinting and toning, printed A Fool There Was, Mignon and other features at the Commercial Motion Pictures laboratories.
Betty Nansen Coming to America (1915) 🇺🇸
Danish stage star Betty Nansen arrives in New York to make a series of big pictures
Betty Gray (1915) 🇺🇸
Betty Gray enjoys the distinction of having played opposite a number of leading artists
Bernard Lamont, Daredevil (1915) 🇺🇸
Former newspaperman Bernard Lamont, a stunt aviator just back from California, is looking for a producer who wants real “daredevil” punches in his pictures.
Arthur Leeds (1915) 🇺🇸
Edison installs its first scenario editor: Arthur Leeds, actor, lecturer, stage manager and co-author of Writing the Photoplay, who will now read every script that reaches the studio.
A. H. Van Buren (1915) 🇺🇸
Stage leading man A. H. Van Buren makes his screen début for Lubin in The District Attorney, directed by Barry O’Neil, the man who first predicted his success in stock.
Adelbert S. Elliott (1915) 🇺🇸
Adelbert S. Elliott has a record that reads like a scenario of a regular “thriller”
Peggy Burke, Thinker (1917) 🇺🇸
Every young lady has thoughts. Peggy Burke has hers. But it’s different with Peggy because she has been a Thanhouser leading woman
Valeska Suratt, “A Siren at Home” (1916) 🇺🇸
There are various types of sirens and vampires, but Valeska Suratt is the wickedest of them all
Walter Law — A Make-Up That Grew (1916) 🇺🇸
How Walter Law prepared to play the part of a burly sailor who had not known the luxury of a smooth face since boyhood
Olga Grey — How I Learnt to Act (1916) 🇺🇸
Olga Grey was now drawing pay for acting so it occurred to her that she had better learn to act