Vintage Movie Resources
Edythe Sterling (1915) 🇺🇸
Premier Company leading woman Edythe Sterling, a rodeo champion and bulldogger, was pulled off the rails a second before the train passed in The Hello Girl of Angel Camp.
Elizabeth Drew (1915) 🇺🇸
Broadway actress Elizabeth Drew, five seasons with 45 Minutes from Broadway, leaves for Bermuda with Oscar Eagle’s Runaway June company.
Edward Alexander (1915) 🇺🇸
New England stock favourite Edward Alexander now plays leads opposite Fritzi Brunette for the Santa Barbara Motion Picture Company, released through Kriterion.
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, producer of Mutt and Jeff and builder of the Nestor plant, perfects 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.
Campbell Gollan (1915) 🇺🇸
Campbell Gollan repeats his stage role of Comte Jean Du Barry in George Kleine’s DuBarry, and recalls rousing a Neapolitan mob with Marc Antony’s oration.
Billy Jacobs (1915) 🇺🇸
Four-year-old Billy Jacobs, discovered by Pathe Lehrman with an ice cream cone, has become one of the best-known child actors of Keystone and Sterling comedies.
Betty Nansen Coming to America (1915) 🇺🇸
Danish stage star Betty Nansen, famed for her Ibsen roles at the Royal Theatre, arrives in New York to make a series of big pictures for William Fox.
Betty Gray (1915) 🇺🇸
Artists’ model, vaudeville dancer and now a Vitagraph stock player: Beata “Betty” Gray, whose magnificent head of hair won her first screen engagement.
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.
Arthur Ashley in Vaudeville (1915) 🇺🇸
Thanhouser leading man Arthur Ashley tries a new kind of villainy, the “vode-villain”, in The Speed King, a sketch that turns from motion picture into spoken play.
Alfred Swenson Joins Kriterion (1915) 🇺🇸
After 140 consecutive weeks of stock in New York and a long stage career, Alfred Swenson is making his first release for the Alhambra brand on the Kriterion programme.
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”
John Mackenzie, Cameraman I. (1915) 🇺🇸
John Mackenzie — Veteran photographer, writer, globe-trotter, all-around interesting personality
Valentine Grant with Cort (1915) 🇺🇸
Valentine Grant has taken away the best of parts assigned by picture producers to their leading women
Gerda Holmes (1915) 🇺🇸
Gerda Holmes’ personality and attractiveness will be more than a passing potency to the Equitable program
Jeannette Rutland (1915) 🇺🇸
Jeannette Rutland is a dyed-in-the-wool performer, possessed of all of the qualifications which make for success