Sophie Sonigo

29/09/2024

Silent film vamp Madeline Hurlock, photographed by the Albert Witzel studio, early 1920s. Hurlock got her start in films as one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties, and played comedic roles as well.

29/09/2024

Italian actress Lyda Borelli (as Marina di Malombra) in a scene from the 1917 Gothic thriller MALOMBRA, based on the Gothic novel of the same name from the 1880s by Antonio Fogazzaro. The Italian film has a plot worthy of Brontë or Walpole: "A young woman living in a castle reads letters written by her ancestor and comes to believe that she is the returned spirit of a former aristocrat who once lived there." (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)

29/09/2024

Happy Birthday to Danish actress/stuntwoman/screenwriter Emilie Sannom!

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/emilie-sannom/

28/09/2024

28/09/2024

With her sister, Adriana Ehlers (b. Sept. 28, 1894) worked in film labs, sold projection equipment, shot documentaries and more.

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-adriana-and-dolores-ehlers/

28/09/2024

"Acting in hundreds of early comic films, writing six and directing ten of these, Ruth Stonehouse was involved in film production from a very early date."

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-ruth-stonehouse/

28/09/2024

Beatrice Maude Tildesley "was one of very few Australian intellectuals to write seriously on the cinema and can lay claim to being the country’s foremost independent film critic and commentator for a decade beginning in the mid-1920s."

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/beatrice-maude-tildesley/

25/09/2024

Also from Luke McKernan: a new profile on Elsie Cohen's career!

"After making her mark as a film journalist in Britain and a publicity and film sales manager in the Netherlands, she found fame as the manager of art house cinemas, notably the Academy in London, playing a huge part in spreading the appreciation of film as art in the 1930s."

https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/elsie-cohen/

24/09/2024

Anna May Wong by Carl Van Vechten