Vintage Movie Resources

I have been asked by The Photo-Play Journal to write a short story on “How I Became a Photoplayer,” and accordingly will endeavor to present facts which, however, I am afraid will disclose nothing particularly startling.

In my early days I was literally hampered by dramatic instinct, human sympathy and emotional feeling. At first I overacted, rather, over-felt.

There are two memories that come strongest to mind when I think back on the day that Richard C. Travers “told me things,” out on the bench on the Essanay grass-plot.

Helen Holmes — intrepid Queen of the Rail — cites some curious superstitions of railroad men

“I refuse to work after six o’clock or on Sundays. I want some time to myself!”

Justina Huff came to Lubin’s less than a year ago and since then has been working hard and earnestly to acquire the essentials that go to make a successful leading lady

Edward Peil Sr. is a valuable man in the studio and gets his full share of important roles

Adrienne Kroell holds the record for being the most engaged girl in Chicago

All that Charles Clary wanted was to be let alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea; alone on a desert isle; alone — well, alone anywhere that the feminine gender is not

“I’m usually cast as ‘heavy’ but in the picture we came here to make, I have a straight part. The character and I last throughout the four reels.”

D. W. Griffith believes that Mae Marsh will be the equal of any emotional actress in the world within a few years

Henry B. Walthall is a strong emotional actor and has always displayed a natural aptitude for the work — born to it, one might say

Ann Little is one of the foremost interpreters of Indian roles, having an understanding of the Indian perhaps greater than any other actress