“The girl is yours when you kiss her – until you meet the next one.” — Lew Cody Source: 1920 SODA JERK ON WAGER Hollywood, June 5, 1928 (U.P.) – If Lew Cody and Ralph Spence really placed a $1,000 side bet on the outcome then Lew Cody won that sum for being […]
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Karla Schramm (February 1, 1891 – January 17, 1980) was an early silent film player on the West Coast. During her early childhood, she lived with her family in Portland, Oregon. When she was was around nine years old, she and her older sister Paloma toured the U.S. and Alaska as musical prodigies, giving piano […]
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“People can get what they want if they want it long enough and hard enough. But most of them want it only for a minute and then want something else. They don’t concentrate.” — Elsie Ferguson Source: 1915 2
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“You know, the more money a cowboy has, the bigger his hat. Mexicans, too. They think nothing of spending $5,000 for a suit. I’ve seen Mexicans wearing $20 gold pieces on the heels of their shoes. Cowboys, of course, don’t go in for that. You may not believe it, but the best dressed cowboys come […]
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Edgene de Lespine was born in Houston, Texas. She briefly worked in silent films for Reliance in 1912-1913, playing leads and motherly roles. 2
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Juanita Sponsler was an actress with the Kalem Studios in Los Angeles during the 1910s. She was born in Oklahoma on December 7, 1894. Her father was Edward M. Sponsler, who became a “picture operator” for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Her mother was a former schoolteacher named Adella. In 1910, the family lived […]
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“If there’s one thing which makes me sick with managers, it is their thrice confounded belief that they really know what the public wants. Unusally they know nothing of the kind. They give the public what they think it wants, and the public has to have some amusement some way or other, so it swallows, […]
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“The chief effect of bobbed hair is an appearance of youthfulness. And to look too young would destroy the air of sophistication that is the vamp’s most potent charm.” — Madeline Hurlock Source: 1924 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=acek8B64Y0k 2
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“Stage life taught me to preserve my body. And I believe beauty is to feminine success what coach work is to an automobile.” — Lina Cavalieri, Italian opera star who was promoted as “the most beautiful woman of Europe” in 1906. Mad Love (1920) 2
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Merna Kennedy, flaming-haired film actress, is in an odd position as any player in the movies. Myrna, whose hystrionic genius is [as] fiery as her tresses, has been drawing salary each week for three years. But during that time she has made but one picture. Merna, you know, is under contract to Charlie Chaplin, and […]
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