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Nell Shipman (October 25, 1892 – January 23, 1970) was a Canadian actress, author and screenwriter, producer, director, and animal trainer. She was a Canadian pioneer in early Hollywood. She is best known for her work in James Oliver Curwood stories and for portraying strong, adventurous women. In 1919, she and her producer husband, Ernest Shipman, made the most successful silent film in Canadian history, Back to God's Country. She was one of the first women to do a nude scene on screen when she did so in that movie. Life and career Shipman was born Helen Foster-Barham in Victoria, British Columbia. Her family moved to Seattle, Washington when Nell was 13 years old. Around the same time, Nell started stage acting and joined theatrical stock companies before working in film. When Nell was 18 years old, she met and married 39 years old theatrical entrepreneur, Ernest Shipman (December 17, 1871 – August 7, 1931). After marrying, Ernest and Nell Shipman moved to Hollywood to start working in the film industry. During this time, Nell sold the rights of her book, Under the Crescent Moon to Universal Studios (they wanted to make a six film serial of the story). Nell also started acting in Universal, Selig & Vitagraph productions. Between 1915–1918, she played several leading roles including her big debut film God’s Country and the Woman (1915). In God’s Country and the Women, Nell Shipman directed, produced, and acted in the film based on James Oliver Curwood’s short story. Nell was one of the first directors to shoot her films almost entirely on location. In 1918, Nell Shipman suffered from Spanish influenza and nearly died. During her recovery, she decided to create a production company called Shipman Curwood Producing Company. The first and only film the company would produce was major Canadian silent film hit Back to God’s Country (1919). This film was based on another short story written by Curwood and adapted to the screen by Nell herself. Nell also was the lead of the film and it featured a controversial nudity scene. Although the film was extremely successful (posting a 300% profit by grossing a million and a half dollars), Curwood was infuriated with Nell because she changed the scenario of his short story. She adapted the protagonist of the film from the Great Dane, Wapi to the female lead, Delores. Shipman also shaped her character into a heroine: she saved the male lead and in so doing created an independent character and feminist role model. In 1920, Nell and Ernest Shipman were divorced. During this time, Nell moved back to Hollywood and created Nell Shipman Productions with Bert Van Tuyler as her co-director. She focused on the major themes she enjoyed: wild animals, nature, feminist heroes, and filming on location. When she was younger, she started to develop a respect toward animals, fought for animal rights in Hollywood, and spoke out against animal cruelty. The production company produced only four films. In 1921, the film The Girl From God’s Country was removed from Nell's control and was cut back from twelve reels to seven; when it released it was considered a box office failure. When she was living in Spokane, Washington, Nell Shipman made a film called The Grub Stake, which costs around $180,000 to produce. Unfortunately, the film was never distributed. The American distributor went bankrupt and during subsequent litigation, the film got involved. During this time, Nell tried to maintain her production company by making several short films in Priest Lake, Idaho. However, because of the bankruptcy, Nell’s production company collapsed. In 1925, she was forced to send her animals to the San Diego Zoo because she was unable to afford the cost of maintaining them. Shipman next moved across the country and traveled the world. Eventually, she started writing scripts and short stories. The most notable contribution at this time was the story which became the basis of Wings in the Dark starring Myrna Loy and Cary Grant (1934). Nell finally moved to the California desert and continued writing there for the rest of her life. Her last project was her autobiography, The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart. She died in Cabazon, California at the age of 77. Nell Shipman lived for three years in what is known today as The Doctor's House Museum in Glendale, California, from 1917 to 1920. She described it as on a "tree lined dirt road, away from the hub bub of Hollywood". It was here that her mother died of the flu epidemic. Cultural legacy The Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock was commissioned to write a one act play about Shipman's life. It was performed in 1999 by the Theatre Junction Resident Company of Artists in Calgary, and was directed by Brian Richmond. All of Nell Shipman's surviving films are available on DVD from Boise State University. Filmography (Either or all: writer/director/producer/star) The Ball of Yarn (1910) Outwitted by Billy (1913) One Hundred Years of Mormonism (1913) God's Country and the Woman (1915) The Pine's Revenge (1915) Under the Crescent (1915) The Pine's Revenge (1915) The Fires of Conscience (1916) Through the Wall (1916) Baree, Son of Kazan (1917) The Black Wolf (1917) My Fighting Gentleman (1917) The Girl From Beyond (1918) The Home Trail (1918) Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers (1918) The Wild Strain (1918) Back to God's Country (1919) Something New (1920) The Girl from God's Country (1921) A Bear, A Boy and A Dog (1921) The Grub-Stake (1923) The Light on Lookout (1924) The Trail of the North Wind (1924) White Water (1924) Wolf's Brush (1924) The Golden Yukon (1927) Wings in the Dark (1935) The Story of Mr. Hobbs (1947)

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Pauline Starke (January 10, 1901[1] – February 3, 1977) was an American silent-film actress born in Joplin, Missouri. She made her acting debut appearing as a dance extra in D.W. Griffith's film Intolerance (1916). She continued to play bit parts until director Frank Borzage started casting her in leading roles, beginning in 1917. Selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1922, Starke starred in a number of films from 1916 to 1935. She had been introduced into the film industry by a friend following the completion of her education. She scored several lead roles in films, establishing her as a prominent silent-film actress during the 1920s. She married twice in her lifetime. She first married producer/director Jack White in 1927 and later married actor George Sherwood. She died from the aftermath of a stroke on February 3, 1977 in Santa Monica, California. Pauline Starke has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6125 Hollywood Blvd, for her contributions to Motion Pictures. Selected filmography Cheerful Givers (1917) Lost and Found on a South Sea Island (1923) Captain Salvation (1927) The Viking (1928)

Ruth Roland (August 26, 1892 - September 22, 1937) was an American stage and film actress and film producer. Early life and career Born in San Francisco, California, her father managed a theatre and she became a child actress who went on to work in vaudeville. She was hired by director Sidney Olcott who had seen her on stage in New York City, she appeared in her first film for Kalem Studios in 1909 and along with Gene Gauntier was soon billed as a "Kalem Girl." Roland was eventually sent to Kalem's West Coast studio where she was the lead actress and overseer of "Kalem House" where all the actors lived. At 12 years old, Roland was the youngest student at Hollywood High School. Roland left Kalem and went on to even more fame at Balboa Films, where she was under contract from 1914-1917. In 1915 she appeared in a 14-episode adventure film serial titled The Red Circle. A shrewd businessperson, she established her own production company and signed a distribution deal with Pathé to make six new multi-episode serials that proved very successful. Between 1909 and 1927, Roland appeared in more than 200 films. She appeared in an early color feature film Cupid Angling (1918) made in the Natural Color process invented by Leon F. Douglass, and filmed in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California. Roland left the film business until 1930 when she made her first talkie. Although her voice worked well enough on screen, now entering her forties she returned to performing in live theatre, making only one more film appearance in 1935. Personal life Roland married actor Ben Bard in 1929. Bard also had stage acting in common and ran a Hollywood acting school after they married. They were together until the end of Roland's life. Death Ruth Roland died of cancer in 1937, aged 45, in Hollywood and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Ruth Roland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6220 Hollywood Blvd. Selected filmography The Scarlet Letter (1908) The Cardboard Baby (1909) Her Indian Mother (1910) He Who Laughs Last (1911) Pulque Pete and the Opera Troupe (1912) The Raiders from Double L Ranch (1913) Gertie Gets the Cash (1914) The Pursuit of Pleasure (1915) The Red Circle (1915) The Sultana (1916) The Fringe of Society (1917) Cupid Angling (1918) The Adventures of Ruth (1919) Ruth of the Rockies (1920) The Avenging Arrow (1921) White Eagle (1922) The Timber Queen (1922) The Haunted Valley (1923) Dollar Down (1925) The Masked Woman (1927) Reno (1930) From Nine to Nine (1935)

Irene Rich (October 13, 1891 - April 22, 1988) was an American actress who worked in both silent films and talkies. Career Born Irene Luther in Buffalo, New York, Rich worked for Will Rogers, who used her in eight pictures, including Water Water Everywhere (1920), The Strange Boarder (1920), Jes' Call Me Jim (1920), Boys Will Be Boys (1921) and The Ropin' Fool (1921). She often portrayed society women, such as in the 1925 adaptation of Lady Windermere's Fan and also in Queen of the Yukon (1940). In two of her last films she played a frontier wife and mother. She was the mother of Gail Russell's character 'Penelope Worth', in John Wayne's Angel and the Badman as well as in John Ford's cavalry story Fort Apache in which she portrayed Mrs. O'Rourke, the wife of Sergeant O'Rourke (Ward Bond). The Irene Rich Show In the 1930s, Rich did much work in radio. From 1933 to 1944, she hosted a nationwide anthology program of serialized mini-dramas, Dear John (aka The Irene Rich Show). Her leading man was actor Gale Gordon, who later played Lucille Ball's apoplectic boss "Mr. Mooney" on TV. Rich also appeared in stage productions, including Seven Keys to Baldpate (1935) which starred George M. Cohan and As the Girls Go in 1948. Rich was married four times. She had two daughters—one of whom, Frances Rich, was a stage and film actress in the 1930s before becoming a sculptor. On April 22, 1988, Rich died at age 96 of heart failure in Hope Ranch, California. Rich has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her contribution to the motion picture industry at 6225 Hollywood Boulevard and one for her contributions to the radio industry at 6150 Hollywood Boulevard. Selected filmography Film Year Film Role Notes 1918 A Law Unto Herself Stephanie 1919 The Spite Bride Eileen Moore 1920 Stop Thief Madge Carr 1921 Sunset Jones Marion Rand 1922 The Yosemite Trail Eve Marsham 1923 Rosita The Queen 1924 Beau Brummel Charlotte, Duchess of York Behold This Woman Louise Maurel Cytherea Fanny Randon 1925 The Man Without a Conscience Shirley Graves 1926 Silken Shackles Denise Lake 1927 Dearie Sylvia Darling/aka "Dearie" The Desired Woman Diana Maxwell 1928 Ned McCobb's Daughter Carol 1929 The Exalted Flapper Queen Charlotte of Capra They Had to See Paris Idy Peters 1930 Check and Double Check Mrs. Blair So This Is London Mrs. Draper 1931 Five and Ten Jenny Rarick The Champ Linda 1932 Manhattan Tower Ann Burns 1934 Spitfire Woman Uncredited 1938 That Certain Age Dorothy Fullerton 1939 Everybody's Hobby Mrs. Myra Leslie 1940 The Mortal Storm Amelie Roth 1941 Three Sons o' Guns Mrs. Margaret Patterson 1942 This Time for Keeps Mrs. Bryant Alternative title: Over the Waves 1947 Calendar Girl Lulu Varden Alternative title: Star Dust and Sweet Music 1948 Joan of Arc Catherine le Royer Television Year Title Role Notes 1949 The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre 1 episode

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