Vivian Rich — Not What You’d Expect (1925) 🇺🇸

Vivian Rich scarcely fulfills one’s expectations of a serial heroine, for she is a quiet, unobtrusive young woman whom one could never imagine as the feminine prize of those blood-curdling thrills. Yet, strangely enough, in this she resembles almost all queens of the black-and-blue drama, who are unostentatious girls, leading quite uneventful lives.

To be sure, she is nor a permanent serialite, but appears in the chapter-thrillers periodically. Her latest is “Idaho” with Mahlon Hamilton, which Pathé will release, and in most of the episodes of which she plays a boy. She was starred for a time by Fox [William Fox] and has had a varied movie career packed into a very few years.

Miss Rich was born in Boston and carries the Back Bay influence still in her culture and charm of manner. She is a sensible sort of person with no ideas or theories or fads off the beaten path of convention. Contrary to most of feminine Hollywood, she welcomes rainy days and loves to walk, carrying an umbrella, and does her own marketing. In her leaf-brown eyes there is much humor which seems to be saying, “Why make a fuss over this movie business? It’s as ordinary as anything else when you get on familiar terms with it.”

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Photo by: Albert Witzel

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, June 1925