Vintage Movie Resources

October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

Elizabeth Drew (1915) 🇺🇸

Broadway actress Elizabeth Drew, five seasons with 45 Minutes from Broadway, leaves for Bermuda with Oscar Eagle’s Runaway June company.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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Dorothy Bernard (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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Donald Brian with Lasky (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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David Horsley — A Double Exposure Camera (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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Betty Nansen Coming to America (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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Betty Gray (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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Arthur Ashley in Vaudeville (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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Alfred Swenson Joins Kriterion (1915) | www.vintoz.com
October 20, 2026

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.

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October 20, 2026

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.

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