Actresses

Julanne Johnston (May 1, 1900 - December 26, 1988) was an American silent film actress born in Indianapolis, Indiana. Johnston is known for being on William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida during the weekend in November 1924 when film director and producer Thomas Ince died there under mysterious circumstances. She was also the female lead in the Douglas Fairbanks film The Thief of Bagdad, with Anna May Wong, that same year. She died in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, at the age of 88. Her remains were buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit.

Katherine Agnew MacDonald (December 14, 1891–June 4, 1956) was an American actress and film producer. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Career Starting her career as a popular model in New York City in the 1910s, MacDonald moved to Los Angeles in 1917. Initially signed to a contract by Paramount (now Paramount Pictures), MacDonald spent most of her career with First National. She achieved the peak of her popularity between 1920 and 1923 during the silent film era. She was among the top ranks of actresses financially in 1920, earning about $50,000 per picture from her contract with First National. She also became one of the first women to produce films in Hollywo…

Clara Horton (July 29, 1904 – December 4, 1976) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 88 films between 1912 and 1942. She is buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park. Selected filmography 1912 The Homecoming Little Miss Langdon Darling of the Mounted The Darling 1913 The Spectre Bridegroom Master Van Altenberg The Little Mother of Black Pine Trail Marie 1914 The Greatest of These Peter's Little Friend The Violinist Ethel, age 7 1915 The Little Band of Gold The Vengeance of Guido 1916 Under the Lion's Paw Us Kids 1917 The Plow Woman Mary, as a child Tom Sawyer Becky Thatcher 1918 Huck and Tom Becky Thatcher The Yellow Dog Kat…

Doris Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was a popular actress of motion pictures and television. Youth She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College Institute and later at Columbia University. She sang in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist Churches in Brooklyn, New York. Her voice attracted the attention of Broadway theatrical scouts who enticed her to become a performer on the stage. She first appeared in the Victor Herbert operetta The Princess Pat. Film career …

Louise Lovely (born Nellie Louise Alberti, 28 February 1895 – 18 March 1980) was the first Australian motion picture actress to find success in America. As such, she can be considered a forerunner to successful contemporary Australian actresses such as Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, and Cate Blanchett. Louise Lovely was born in Paddington, Sydney to an Italian musician father, Ferruccio Carlo Alberti, and a Swiss mother, Elise Louise Jeanne de Gruningen Lehmann. She made her professional debut at age nine as Eva in the classic Uncle Tom's Cabin, using the stage name of Louise Carbasse. She soon became a successful child actress, appearing in many roles made p…

Barbara Shelley (born 15 August 1933) is an English film and television actress. She is now retired, but was at her busiest in the late 1950s (Blood of the Vampire) and 1960s when she became Hammer Horror's number one female star, with The Gorgon (1964), Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966), and Quatermass and the Pit (1967) among her credits. Although she is known as a scream queen, in fact her most famous scream (in the aforementioned Dracula film) was dubbed by co-star Suzan Farmer. She also appeared in Village of the Damned (1960) and in the 1984 Doctor Who serial Planet of Fire.

Lila Lee (July 25, 1901 – November 13, 1973) was a prominent screen actress of the early silent film era. Early life Lila Lee was born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel in Union Hill, New Jersey into a middle-class family of German immigrants who relocated to New York City when Lila was quite young. Searching for a hobby for their gregarious young daughter, the Appels enrolled Lila in Gus Edwards' kiddie review shows where she was given the nickname of "Cuddles"; a name that she would be known by for the rest of her acting career. Her stagework became so popular with the public that her parents had her educated with private tutors. Edwards would become Lee's long-term…

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Jacqueline Logan (November 30, 1901 - April 4, 1983) was a star of the silent motion picture screen who was on board William Randolph Hearst's yacht The Oneida in 1924 when film director Thomas Ince died. The young actress was under contract to him at the time. She was born in Corsicana, Texas on November 30, 1901. Her father was a noted architect and her mother was briefly an opera singer. Stage career included Broadway Jacqueline traveled to Colorado Springs for her health. While there she took a course in journalism from Ford Frick, who later became commissioner of major league baseball. Setting out to Chicago Logan found employment dancing in a stage production of a…

Madge Kennedy (April 19, 1891 in California – June 9, 1987 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California) was a movie and stage actress of the silent film era. Kennedy came to New York City with her mother to paint. She was admitted to the Art Student's League. Luis Mora saw her art work and recommended that she go to Siasconset (Nantucket, Massachusetts) for a summer. Mora described Kennedy as talented but very lazy. Theater The Siasconset colony was evenly divided among actors and artists, and painters often gave theatrical performances. Kennedy appeared at a painter's play and impressed one of the professionals there. He commented, "She could act rings around anybody.…

Mary Kornman (December 27, 1915 – June 1, 1973) was an American child actress who was the leading female star of the Our Gang series during the Pathe silent era. Our Gang Mary Kornman was the daughter of Hal Roach's still-photo cameraman Gene Kornman. After Peggy Cartwright, who only appeared in four or five Our Gang episodes, Mary became the leading lady of the series, appearing in more than 40 episodes. Kornman was one of the series' biggest stars during its early years between 1922 and 1926. Later career After the series, she had a successful movie career through her twenties. She also continued appearing with Our Gang co-star Mickey Daniels into adulthood, as evi…

Madeline Hurlock (12 December 1899 – 4 April 1989) was a silent film actress, hailing from Federalsburg, Maryland. Hurlock appeared in many short comedies for Mack Sennett, starting in 1923, and was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1925. She was a talented comedian, also known for her incredible beauty. She appeared in over 50 short films, the first of which Where's My Wandering Boy This Evening? was made in 1923, the last Pink Pajamas in 1929.She featured in one of Laurel and Hardy's earliest films, Duck Soup. Hurlock married three times: John S. McGovern, divorced 1924. Marc Connelly, married 1930, divorced 1935. Connelly won the Pulitzer Prize for his play The Green…

Leatrice Joy (November 7, 1893 – May 13, 1985) was an American actress most prolific during the early silent film era. Early life and career Born as Leatrice Joy Zeidler in New Orleans, Louisiana, she began her acting career in stock theater companies and made her film debut for the little-known small New Orleans based Nola Film Company in 1915. By 1917 she relocated to the relatively young film colony in Hollywood, California and began appearing in comedy shorts opposite Billy West and Oliver Hardy. Signed under contract with Samuel Goldwyn Studios, her first role for the studio was in 1917s The Pride of the Clan opposite Mary Pickford. By 1920, Joy's career quickly ga…

Elinor Fair (21 December 1903 — 26 April 1957) was an American motion picture actress born in Richmond, Virginia. She began her career with the name Eleanor Crowe, changed it to Lenore Fair, and finally settled on Elinor Fair. It is not clear what her name at birth was. When Fair was elected a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1924, she had already been in films for a number of years, and in vaudeville before that. She did some of her best work under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, appearing in such productions as Yankee Clipper and Let 'er go Gallagher. She also played in a handful of talkies, (often reduced to minor roles) before disappearing from the big screen in 1934. From 1926 to…

Josephine Dunn (May 1, 1906-February 3, 1983) was an early American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in New York City, Dunn began her career in Hollywood with a small role alongside Thelma Todd in the 1920 film Fascinating Youth. Dunn became associated with what would become known as the "Algonquin Round Table", which included notorious and famous actress Tallulah Bankhead. She married Clyde Greathouse during the mid-1920s, divorcing him shortly thereafter. In 1925 she married William P. Cameron, whom she also divorced in 1928. She would star in a total of twenty three silent films, and in 1929 she was one of thirteen girls named as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", which t…

Sarah Galbraith Buxton (born March 23, 1965) is an American actress. Buxton was born in Brentwood, California. She is primarily known for her work on the television soap opera Sunset Beach, which aired on NBC from January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999. Buxton was an original cast member and remained with the show for its entire run, playing the ever-plotting villain Annie Douglas Richards. After the demise of Sunset Beach, Buxton appeared on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000-2001 as the less than sane villainess Morgan DeWitt, and in 2005, she returned to that role. In addition, she played a minor character, porn star Crystal Galore, on the soap opera Da…

Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908-May 23, 1997) was an early silent film star, and one of the few to make a successful transition with the advent of "talkies", when films began using sound. She was born in Utah. Named as a 1928 "WAMPAS Baby Star", Gulliver was part of The Collegians silent series of the late 1920s, and also did some silent serials with William Desmond, Jack Hoxie and Hoot Gibson. With the beginning of "talkies", she became a popular heroine in 1930s "cliffhangers", including The Galloping Ghost, Phantom of the West, The Shadow of the Eagle, The Last Frontier, and the 1936 Custers Last Stand. Her costars were often Rex Lease, Tim McCoy, Jack Ho…

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Mary Duncan (August 13, 1895 – May 9, 1993) was an American actress. She met and married Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, who was international polo player as well as director of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company, in 1933, after which she retired from films. They remained married until his death in 1977. She spent much of her remaining years working with several major charities. Her last film appearance was with Katharine Hepburn in the 1933 film Morning Glory. She kept herself active by playing golf twice a week and swimming every morning before breakfast, which helped her maintain her size 8 figure. As an actress, she had followed the ministrations of Sylvia of Hollywood t…

Julia Faye (September 24, 1893 – April 6, 1966) was a motion picture actress from Richmond, Virginia. Career overview Faye had resided in St. Louis, Missouri prior to coming to Hollywood in 1916, to visit friends. She visited one of the film studios and was introduced to Christy Cabanne. The two reminisced about St. Louis and discovered that they had lived next door to one another there. Cabanne persuaded Faye's reluctant mother to allow her to be in motion pictures. She appeared in more Cecil B. DeMille movies than any other actress. She appeared in many of his silents and in every one of his movies from 1939's Union Pacific on. She was DeMille's mistress off-screen f…

Wanda Hawley (a.k.a. Wanda Petit), (July 30, 1895 – March 18, 1963) was a veteran of the silent screen films era. She entered the theatrical profession with an amateur group in Seattle, and later toured the U.S. and Canada as a singer. She co-starred with Rudolph Valentino in the 1922's The Young Rajah, and rose to stardom in a number of Cecil B. DeMille and director Sam Wood's films. Life and career Hawley was born in Scranton, Pa., but together with her family moved to Seattle, Washington, when she was a child. She received her education in Seattle. Hawley made her screen debut with the William Fox Company and after playing with them for eight months joined time Lask…

Ena Gregory (18 April 1906 - 13 June 1993) was an Australian motion picture actress from Sydney, Australia. Movie actress In Australia Gregory was known as the child wonder of the vaudeville stage. Her first screen experience came at the age of four when she was shown in her mother's arms in a crowd which was welcoming British dignitaries. She was first signed in Hollywood for ingenue (stock character) roles by Universal Pictures in 1921. She also worked for Hal Roach Studios and First National Pictures. In all she spent five years in comic roles before going into dramatic work. By 1924 she was the leading lady of the Independent Pictures Corporation. She was a Wampas …

Louise Dresser (October 5, 1878 – April 24, 1965) was an American actress. Born Louise Josephine Kerlin in Evansville, Indiana, her first film was The Glory of Clementina (1922), and her first starring role was in The City that Never Sleeps (1924). She took her professional last name as a tribute to her good friend, songwriter Paul Dresser. Dresser, the elder brother of novelist Theodore Dreiser, was a popular songwriter of the turn of the 20th century. During the first presentations of the Academy Awards in 1929 she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for A Ship Comes In. She portrayed Empress Elizabeth in Paramount Pictures's The Scarlet Empress (193…

Virginia Brown Faire (June 26, 1904 – June 30, 1980) was an American silent-film actress, appearing in mainly dramatic films and westerns. Born as Virginia Labuna in Brooklyn, New York, she was brought to Hollywood in 1919 after being the winner of the Motion Picture Classic magazine's "Fame and Fortune" contest. She was educated in the public, elementary and high schools of Brooklyn. It was not long after she turned 15 years old that she presented herself at the Metro studio where she was almost immediately put on. Shortly after she appeared in pictures for Fox, she was with Universal. Between 1920 and 1935, she appeared in some 75 films. Her first film credit was the…

Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 {though some sources say 1901} - September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Early life Born Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas, Dorothy Devore's family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was in Los Angeles where Dorothy completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by director/producer Al Christie, one of the most famous comedic moviemakers of the era. Dorothy began playing in small par…