Mae Marsh Defines Youth Work Life Route for Fame
Mae Marsh explains her philosophy on delaying marriage to pursue work in film. She recalls rising from an “extra girl” to a leading actress in The Birth of a Nation, credits Griffith as a father figure, and emphasizes energy and humor in her career while remaining devoted to California. She also shares early life, the San Francisco earthquake, and a belief in prayer.
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Mae Marsh
Miss Marsh
Jimmie
Mr. Griffith
Madonna
Walter Long
Mr. Rockefeler
California
D. W. Grifth
Brown's Palace
Denver
Joan I Rockefeller
San Francisco
Sacred Heart Convent
Golden Gate Park
Los Angeles
Moving Pictures
Sweet Home
Griffith
Little Mary Miles Minter Returns on Screen at Grande Theatre
The 15 year old star known for Emmy of Stork's Nest headlines Barrera Frietchie a five part feature from Popular Plays and Players at the Grande Theatre tomorrow afternoon and night. Minter, famed from The Littlest Rebel, leads a cast including Mrs Thomas W. Wh een, Guyom Arne Nilsson, Wallace Scott and Frannier Fraunhotz in a Whittier poem adaptation. Tickets priced at 5 cents.
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Mary Miles Minter
Stork’s Nest
Metro
Grand Theatre
Barrera Frietchie
Miss Minter
William
Dustin Farnum
Barbara Frietchie
Whittier
Clyd Fitch
Minter
Thomas W. Wheen
Guyoom Arne Nilsson
Wiliam A. Mor Wallace Scott
Frannier Fraunhotz
Liberty Theatre stars Julia Dean in The Ramsom at Liberty
Julia Dean performs a dual role in The Ramsom at the Liberty Theatre. She is first a willful wife tempted by stage life and later an aged mother who saves her daughter from a predatory manager. In a dramatic finale she dies to secure her daughter's happiness, unseen by the daughter on stage. The film’s stage-life visuals are said to be revelatory and cautionary.
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Julia Dean
Liberty Theatre
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Soni
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Metro Pictures Corporation
Mary Miles Winter
Metro Corporation
Frietchie
Mary Miles
Thomas W. Whiffen
Victoria
Pathe
Featuring
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Frank Mayo
Maryland
D.W. Griffith
Electric
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Boston
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Priges
Roo
Gerald Trask
Ted
Msiye
Robert Strickland
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