edwardianpromenade:

— Mae Murray (1917), American actress

presentinglilymars:

Lillian Gish in The Wind (1928)

[image: a black and white headshot of a man whose eyebrows would be taking over his forehead if his forehead was smaller. Caption reads, “OWEN MOORE has been the adored hero of hundreds of shadow dramas. He is one of the three noted Moore brothers and moreover is the husband of Mary Pickford, whom he met when both were Biographing. Owen meteored from Ireland to Toledo through high school stock and seven film companies, last appearing in a Triangle release. He has played opposite Elsie Janis, Fritzi Scheff, and Lois Meredith.”]

[image: a black and white photograph of a young woman with long dark curls and a wreath of flowers in her hair doing her best saintly Italian Renaissance face. Caption reads, “MIRIAM COOPER is the elder Cameron sister in The Birth of a Nation, the proud, dark-eyed daughter of the South to whom defeat is so bitter. She is the sister of the Little Colonel (Walthall) and Flora Cameron (Mae Marsh). She has long been with the Reliance-Majestie studios and is well known in many of their plays, notably “Home Sweet Home” and “The Story of a Story.”“]

I watched The Birth of a Nation very recently, and Miriam Cooper has so little to do in it, but somehow she manages to out-act everyone else in the film.

[image: William S. Hart’s face looks less like the face of a handsome man than an unskilled illustrator’s attempt to draw the face of a handsome man in a turn of the century magazine. Caption reads, “WILLIAM S. HART is at present one of the big guns at the Ince corner of Triangle. He ascended to the photodrama after 18 years of unusually successful experience on the “legitimate” stage in Shakespearean roles and in such well-known plays as “The Squaw Man” and “The Virginian.” He played opposite Charlotte Walker in “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Hart is six feet two of western realism.”]

[image: a black and white photograph of a fair-haired young man in a strong light that casts interesting shadows on his face and makes his forehead look a little scary. Caption reads, “TOM FORMAN is best known to photoplay goers by his work with Edith Taliaferro in “Young Romance” and opposite Ina Claire in “The Wild Goose Chase” both Lasky productions. Before joining the Hollywood studios Forman acted, directed and wrote scenarios for the Lubin and Universal companies. He was born on a Texas ranch 22 years ago and attended the Texas State University.”]

[image: a poster for a silent film version of Quo Vadis? showing a young man making a threatening gesture at an older, bearded man, over what appear to be the ruins of a building]

[image: emerging from a circle on the white page, actress Mary Alden facing the viewer and resting her chin on her hand. And, obscuring her left shoulder, another picture of her, full length, seated, dressed for a part, and leaning to the left. Her left, that is.]

[image: Mary Pickford, wearing a coat with a fur collar and a hat with an enormous pom pom crouches to pose with a small, distressed child in overalls. Caption reads, “Would you holler and squinch away like this if Mary Pickford hugged you? No accounting for tastes, but perhaps this little Pueblo Indian of Albuquerque, N.M., feels constrained to act the truth just because his name is George Washington. He is a ward of the Santa Fe railway company.”]