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March 12 – American actress Florence Lawrence becomes "the first true movie star" after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures (I.M.P.) names her in advertisements announcing that he has signed the leading lady who has hitherto only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios.
Pages in category "American silent film actresses" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,151 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The 1910s saw the origins of Hollywood as the centre of the American film industry relocated from New York to California.By 1912, major motion-picture companies had set up production near or in Los Angeles. [1]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes Abraham Lincoln's Clemency: Theodore Wharton: Leopold Wharton: An Arcadian Maid: D. W. Griffith: Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett: Drama: As It Is In Life
In January 1910, Pickford traveled with a Biograph crew to Los Angeles. Many other film companies wintered on the West Coast, escaping the weak light and short days that hampered winter shooting in the East. Pickford added to her 1909 Biographs (Sweet and Twenty, They Would Elope, and To Save Her Soul, to name a few) with films made in California.
Silent film actors. The following is a list of actors and actresses whose careers began in the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. This list includes international performers who were well known throughout the world, and those who may have only achieved a degree of success in their native countries.
Ingeborg Myrtle Elisabeth Ericksen was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 22, 1910.Her parents were Danish immigrants named Samuel and Ingeborg Nielsen Ericksen. [2] [3] Although Ricksen's birth year has been stated to be earlier, particularly as she often portrayed adult characters in films, [3] her birth certificate states 1910 as her true birth year. [2]
Theda Bara (/ ˈ θ iː d ə ˈ b ær ə / THEE-də BARR-ə; [1] born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols.