Category: Silent Film Stars

“Wear your hair and your WALK and not your clothes and your manners, not according to style, but according to you own […]

“I was born in New York City, but both my parents died when I was two years old. So then I went […]

HOW I BECAME A PHOTOPLAYER By Bessie Eyton October 1, 1916 I have been told that my entrance and my success in […]

Born in Louisville, KY., [Billie West] inherited the name “Billie,” with some changes, from her mother, who was called “Willie” West by […]

NUMBERS HER ADMIRERS BY THE MILLIONS Bessie Learn Rises to the Topmost Heights of Popularity. Aug. 15, 1915 That five feet of […]

“A member of a family that has been prominent on the American stage for many years, Dorothy Davenport has been engaged as […]

“I write mush and melodrama. I love melodrama myself, and I have no secret disrespect for my audience when I regale them […]

“May came to the studio – she did her work. Her amazing loveliness made her a star of the silent pictures. She […]

William Webster Campbell of the American Film Manufacturing company was, to quote himself, “born in Kansas City in 1891 on a night […]