Florence Lawrence


Florence Lawrence was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

Early life

Born Florence Annie Bridgwood in Hamilton, Ontario, she was youngest of three children of George Bridgwood, an English-born carriage builder and Charlotte "Lotta" Bridgwood, a vaudeville actress. Charlotte Bridgwood had emigrated to Canada from Ireland after the Great Famine with her family as a child. She was known professionally as Lotta Lawrence and was the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company. At the age of three, Lawrence made her debut onstage with her mother in a song and dance routine. When she was old enough to memorize lines of dialogue, she performed with her mother and other members of the Lawrence Dramatic Company in dramatic plays. After performing tear-jerking dramas like Dora Thorne and East Lynne began to depress Lawrence, her mother dropped them from the company's repertoire. While Lawrence performed on stage at the behest of her mother, she recalled that she enjoyed the work but did not like the traveling that all vaudeville performers were required to do. By the age of six, Lawrence had earned the nickname "Baby Flo, the Child Wonder".
On February 18, 1898, George Bridgwood died from accidental coal gas poisoning at his home in Hamilton. Lotta Lawrence moved the family from Hamilton to Buffalo, New York to live with her mother Ann Dunn. She chose to stop bringing her children along for stage performances and for the first time, Florence was enrolled in school. After graduating, Lawrence rejoined her mother's dramatic company. However, her mother disbanded the Lawrence Dramatic Company shortly thereafter; the two moved to New York City around 1906.

Early career: film and stage

She was one of several Canadian pioneers in the film industry who were attracted by the rapid growth of the fledgling motion picture business. In 1906, she appeared in her first motion picture. The next year, she appeared in 38 movies for the Vitagraph film company. During the spring and summer of 1906, Lawrence auditioned for a number of Broadway productions, but she did not have success. However, on December 27, 1906, she was hired by the Edison Manufacturing Company to play Daniel Boone's daughter in Daniel Boone; or, Pioneer Days in America. She got the part because she knew how to ride a horse. Both she and her mother received parts and were paid five dollars per day for two weeks of outdoor filming in freezing weather.
In 1907, she went to work for the Vitagraph Company in Brooklyn, New York, acting as Moya, an Irish peasant girl in a one-reel version of Dion Boucicault's The Shaughraun. She returned briefly to stage acting, playing the leading role in a road show production of Melville B. Raymond's Seminary Girls. Her mother played her last role in this production. After touring with the roadshow for a year, Lawrence resolved that she would "never again lead that gypsy life". In 1908, she returned to Vitagraph where she played the lead role in The Dispatch Beare. Largely as a result of her equestrian skills, she received parts in 11 films in the next five months.

Biograph Studios

Also at Vitagraph was a young actor, Harry Solter, who was looking for "a young, beautiful equestrian girl" to star in a film to be produced by the Biograph Studios under the direction of D. W. Griffith. Griffith, the most prominent producer-director at Biograph Studios, had noticed the beautiful blonde-haired woman in one of Vitagraph's films. Because the film's actors received no mention, Griffith had to make discreet inquiries to learn she was Florence Lawrence and to arrange a meeting. Griffith had intended to give the part to Florence Turner, Biograph's leading lady, but Lawrence managed to convince Solter and Griffith that she was the best suited for the starring role in The Girl and the Outlaw. With the Vitagraph Company, she had been earning $20 per week, working also as a costume seamstress over and above acting. Griffith offered her a job, acting only, for $25 per week.
After her success in this role, she appeared as a society belle in Betrayed by a Handprint and as an Indian in The Red Girl. In total, she had parts in most of the 60 films directed by Griffith in 1908. Toward the end of 1908, Lawrence married Harry Solter. Lawrence gained much popularity, but because her name never was publicized, fans began writing to the studio asking to know her identity. Even after she had gained wide recognition, particularly after starring in the highly successful Resurrection, Biograph Studios refused to publicly announce her name and fans simply called her the "Biograph Girl". During cinema's formative years, silent screen actors were not named because studio owners feared that fame might lead to demands for higher wages and because many actors were embarrassed to be performing pantomime in motion pictures. She continued to work for Biograph in 1909. Her demand to be paid by the week rather than daily was met, and she received double the normal rate.
She achieved great popularity in the "Jones" series, film's first comedy series, in which she played Mrs. Jones in around a dozen films. More popular still were the dramatic love stories in which she co-starred with John R. Cumpson as Mr. Jones and Arthur Johnson. The two played husband and wife in The Ingrate, and the adulterous lovers in Resurrection. Lawrence and Solter began to look elsewhere for work, writing to the Essanay Company to offer their services as leading lady and director. Rather than accepting this offer, however, Essanay reported the offer to Biograph's head office, and they promptly were fired.

Independent Moving Pictures Company

Finding themselves 'at liberty', Lawrence and Solter in 1909 were able to join the Independent Moving Pictures Company of America. The company, founded by Carl Laemmle, the owner of a film exchange, was looking for experienced filmmakers and actors. Needing a star, he lured Lawrence away from Biograph by promising to give her a marquee. First, Laemmle organized a publicity stunt by starting a rumor that Lawrence had been killed by a street car in New York City. Then, after gaining much media attention, he placed ads in the newspapers that announced "We nail a lie" and included a photo of Lawrence. The ad declared she is alive and well and making The Broken Oath, a new movie for his IMP Film Company to be directed by Solter.
Laemmle had Lawrence make a personal appearance in St. Louis, Missouri in March 1910 with her leading man to show her fans that she was very much alive, making her one of the early performers not already famous in another medium to be identified by name by her studio.
The fans in St. Louis were so thrilled to see Lawrence alive that they grabbed at her and popped the buttons off her coat. Laemmle used this to generate further attention by falsely claiming that Lawrence's St. Louis fans rushed her in a frenzy and tore her clothes off. Partially due to Laemmle's ingenuity, the "star system" was born, and before long, Florence Lawrence became a household name. However, her fame also proved that the studio executives who had concerns over wage demands soon had their fears proved correct. Laemmle managed to lure William V. Ranous, one of Vitagraph's better directors, over to IMP. Ranous introduced Laemmle to Lawrence and Solter, and they began to work together. Lawrence and Solter worked for IMP for 11 months, making 50 films. After this, they went on vacation in Europe.
When they returned to the United States, they joined a film company headed by Siegmund Lubin, described as the "wisest and most democratic film producer in history". She once again teamed with Arthur Johnson, and the pair made 48 films together under Lubin's direction. At the time, the film industry was controlled by the Motion Picture Patents Company, a trust formed by the major film companies. IMP was not a member of the MPPC, and hence operated outside its distribution system. Theaters found showing IMP films lost the right to screen MPPC films. IMP, therefore, had powerful enemies in the film industry. It managed to survive largely due to Lawrence's popularity.

Lubin Studios

By late 1910, Lawrence left IMP to work for Lubin Studios, advising her fellow Canadian, the 18-year-old Mary Pickford, to take her place as IMP's star.

Victor Film Company

In 1912, Lawrence and Solter made a deal with Carl Laemmle, forming their own company. Laemmle gave them complete artistic freedom in the company, named Victor Film Company, and paid Lawrence $500 per week as the leading lady, and Solter $200 per week as director. They established a film studio in Fort Lee, New Jersey and made a number of films starring Lawrence and Owen Moore, then sold to the Universal Pictures in 1913. With this new prosperity, Florence was able to realize a 'lifelong dream,' buying a estate in River Vale, New Jersey. In August 1912, she had a fight with her husband, in which he "made cruel remarks about his mother-in-law". He left and went to Europe. However, he wrote "sad" letters to her every day, telling her of his plans to commit suicide. His letters "softened her feelings", and they were re-united in November 1912. Lawrence announced her intention to retire.
She was persuaded to return to work in 1914 for her company, which had been acquired by Universal Studios. During the filming of Pawns of Destiny in 1915, a staged fire got out of control. Lawrence was burned, her hair was singed, and she suffered a serious fall which fractured her spine. She went into shock for months. She returned to work, but collapsed after the film was completed. Blaming Solter for making her do the stunt in which she was injured, the two divorced. To add to her problems, Universal refused to pay her medical expenses, leaving Lawrence feeling betrayed. In mid-1916, she returned to work for Universal and completed Elusive Isabel. However, the strain of working took its toll on her, and she suffered a serious relapse. She was completely paralyzed for four months. In 1921, she traveled to Hollywood to attempt a comeback, but had little success. She received a leading role in a minor melodrama, and then two supporting roles. All her film work after 1924 was in uncredited, bit parts.

Personal life

Lawrence was married three times and had no children. Her first marriage was to actor, screenwriter and director Harry Solter in 1908. They remained married until Solter's death in 1920. She then married automobile salesman Charles Byrne Woodring in 1921. They separated in 1929; Lawrence was granted an interlocutory divorce in February 1931, which was finalized the following year. During the 1920s, Lawrence and Woodring opened a cosmetics store in Los Angeles called Hollywood Cosmetics. The store sold theatrical makeup and also sold a line of cosmetics that Lawrence developed. They continued their partnership after their separation in 1929, but the store was forced to close in 1931.
In 1933, Lawrence wed for the third and final time, to Henry Bolton, who turned out to be an abusive alcoholic and beat her severely. The union lasted five months.
Besides her film career, Lawrence is credited with designing the first "auto signaling arm", a predecessor of the modern turn signal, along with the first mechanical brake signal. She did not patent these inventions, however, and as a result she received no credit for, nor profit from, either one.

Later years

By the late 1920s, Lawrence's popularity had declined and she suffered several personal losses. She was devastated when her mother, to whom she was close, died suddenly in August 1929. Four months later, she separated from her second husband, Charles Woodring. While Lawrence earned a small fortune during her film career, she made many poor business decisions. She lost much of her fortune after the stock market crash in October 1929 and ensuing Great Depression. The cosmetics store that she and her second husband opened in Los Angeles also lost business because of the Depression, and the couple was forced to close its doors in 1931.
By the early 1930s, Lawrence's acting career consisted solely of extra and bit parts which were often uncredited. In 1936, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio head Louis B. Mayer began giving extra and bit parts to former silent film actors for $75 per week. Lawrence, along with other "old timers" from the silent era whose careers had all but ended when sound films replaced silent films, signed with M-G-M. Lawrence remained with the studio until her death.
In mid-1937, Lawrence was diagnosed with what her doctor described as "a bone disease which produces anemia and depression." The disease was likely myelofibrosis, a rare bone marrow disease, or agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, both of which were incurable at the time. Due to her poor health and chronic pain, Lawrence became depressed but attempted to keep working. Around this time she moved into a home on Westbourne Drive in West Hollywood, with a studio worker named Robert "Bob" Brinlow and his sister.

Death

At 1 p.m. on December 28, 1938, Lawrence phoned the offices of M-G-M where she was to report to work that afternoon, claiming that she was ill. Sometime later in the afternoon, Lawrence ingested ant poison and cough syrup at her home in West Hollywood. Accounts differ as to how Lawrence was discovered; some media reports stated her neighbor Marian Menzer heard her screams, while others say that Lawrence called Menzer stating that she poisoned herself. Menzer called an ambulance, and Lawrence was rushed to Beverly Hills Emergency Hospital. Doctors were unable to save Lawrence, who died at 2:45 p.m. Lawrence left a suicide note in her home addressed to her housemate Bob Brinlow stating:
Dear Bob,
Lawrence's death was ruled a "probable suicide" owing to her "ill health". The Motion Picture & Television Fund paid for Lawrence's funeral, held on December 30, and for her unmarked grave in the Hollywood Cemetery in Hollywood. Her grave remained unmarked until 1991, when a British actor paid for a memorial marker for her. It reads: "The Biograph Girl/The First Movie Star". The date of birth on Lawrence's headstone is given as 1890. This inaccuracy was also stated on her death certificate filled out by the coroner. Lawrence's biographer, Kelly R. Brown, owed this mistake to "Lawrence's own brand of fiction" as she routinely subtracted years off her age. The mistake was repeated by the Pierce Brothers Mortuary, where Lawrence's funeral was held, although most obituaries printed her correct year of birth: 1886.

Cultural references

In William J. Mann's novel The Biograph Girl, Mann blends the facts of Lawrence's life with fiction. Instead of fading into oblivion and committing suicide, Lawrence, with the help of a doctor, fools the public into thinking she committed suicide. A journalist discovers Lawrence at the nursing home where she has lived secretly, and he decides to write a biography of her.

Filmography

Short subject

  • The Automobile Thieves
  • Daniel Boone as Boones' daughter
  • The Boy, the Bust and the Bath
  • Athletic American Girls
  • Bargain Fiend; or, Shopping à la Mode
  • The Shaughraun as Moya
  • The Mill Girl
  • The Despatch Bearer; or, Through the Enemy's Lines
  • The Dispatch Bearer
  • Cupid's Realm; or, A Game of Hearts
  • Macbeth as Banquet Guest
  • Romeo and Juliet as Juliet
  • Lady Jane's Flight as Lady Jane
  • ' as Theckla, the Viking's Daughter
  • Love Laughs at Locksmiths; an 18th Century Romance
  • The Bandit's Waterloo
  • Salome as Salome
  • Betrayed by a Handprint as Myrtle Vane
  • The Girl and the Outlaw as Woman
  • Behind the Scenes as Mrs. Bailey
  • The Red Girl as The Red Girl
  • The Heart of O'Yama as O'Yama
  • Where the Breakers Roar as At the Beach
  • A Smoked Husband as Mrs. Bibbs
  • Richard III
  • The Stolen Jewels as Mrs. Jenkins
  • The Devil as A Model
  • The Zulu's Heart as The Boer's Wife
  • Father Gets in the Game as First Couple
  • Ingomar, the Barbarian as Parthenia
  • The Vaquero's Vow as Wedding Party / In Bar
  • The Planter's Wife as Tomboy Nellie
  • Romance of a Jewess as Ruth Simonson
  • The Call of the Wild as Gladys Penrose
  • Concealing a Burglar as Mrs. Brown
  • Antony and Cleopatra as Cleopatra
  • After Many Years as Mrs. John Davis
  • The Pirate's Gold
  • The Taming of the Shrew as Katharina
  • The Song of the Shirt as Working Woman - 1st Sister
  • A Woman's Way
  • The Ingrate as The Trapper's Wife
  • An Awful Moment
  • The Clubman and the Tramp as Bridget / Dinner Guest
  • Julius Caesar as Calpurnia
  • Money Mad as Bank Customer / Landlady
  • The Valet's Wife as Nurse
  • The Feud and the Turkey as Nellie Caufield's Sister
  • The Reckoning as The Wife
  • The Test of Friendship as Jennie Colman
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  • The Christmas Burglars as Mrs. Martin
  • Mr. Jones at the Ball as Mrs. Jones
  • The Helping Hand as At Brothel / Wedding Guest
  • A Calamitous Elopement
  • One Touch of Nature as Mrs. John Murray
  • Mrs. Jones Entertains as Mrs. Jones
  • The Honor of Thieves as Rachel Einstein
  • The Sacrifice as Mrs. Hardluck
  • Those Boys! as The Maid
  • The Criminal Hypnotist as The Maid
  • The Fascinating Mrs. Francis as Visitor
  • Mr. Jones Has a Card Party as Mrs. Jones
  • Those Awful Hats as Theatre Audience
  • The Cord of Life as Woman in Tenement
  • The Girls and Daddy as Dr. Payson's First Daughter
  • The Brahma Diamond as The Guard's Sweetheart
  • A Wreath in Time as Mrs. John Goodhusband
  • Tragic Love as The Maid / In Factory
  • The Curtain Pole as Mrs. Edwards
  • His Ward's Love as The Reverend's Ward
  • The Joneses Have Amateur Theatricals as Mrs. Jones
  • The Politician's Love Story
  • The Golden Louis
  • At the Altar as Girl at Wedding
  • Saul and David
  • The Prussian Spy as The Maid
  • His Wife's Mother as Mrs. Jones
  • A Fool's Revenge
  • The Wooden Leg as Claire
  • The Roue's Heart as Noblewoman
  • The Salvation Army Lass as Mary Wilson
  • The Lure of the Gown as Veronica
  • I Did It
  • The Deception as Mabel Colton
  • And a Little Child Shall Lead Them
  • The Medicine Bottle as Mrs. Ross
  • Jones and His New Neighbors as Mrs. Jones
  • A Drunkard's Reformation as Woman In the Play
  • Trying to Get Arrested as The Nanny
  • The Road to the Heart as Mexican Woman
  • Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade as Mrs. Schneider
  • The Winning Coat as Lady-in-Waiting
  • A Sound Sleeper as Second Woman
  • Confidence as Nellie Burton
  • Lady Helen's Escapade as Lady Helen
  • A Troublesome Satchel as In Crowd
  • The Drive for Life as Mignon
  • Lucky Jim as Wedding Guest
  • Tis an Ill Wind that Blows No Good as Mary Flinn
  • The Eavesdropper
  • The Note in the Shoe as Ella Berling
  • One Busy Hour as Customer
  • The French Duel as Nurse
  • Jones and the Lady Book Agent as Mrs. Jones
  • A Baby's Shoe as The Poor Mother
  • The Jilt as Mary Allison - Frank's Sister
  • Resurrection as Katucha
  • The Judgment of Solomon
  • Two Memories as Party Guest
  • Eloping with Auntie as Margie
  • What Drink Did as Mrs. Alfred Lucas
  • Eradicating Aunty as Flora - Aunty's Ward
  • The Lonely Villa
  • Her First Biscuits as Mrs. Jones
  • The Peachbasket Hat as Mrs. Jones
  • The Way of Man as Mabel Jarrett
  • The Necklace
  • The Country Doctor as Mrs. Harcourt
  • The Cardinal's Conspiracy as Princess Angela
  • Tender Hearts as Minor Role
  • Sweet and Twenty as Alice's Sister
  • Jealousy and the Man as Mrs. Jim Brooks
  • The Slave as Nerada
  • The Mended Lute as Rising Moon
  • Mr. Jones' Burglar as Mrs. Jones
  • Mrs. Jones' Lover as Mrs. Jones
  • The Hessian Renegades
  • Lines of White on a Sullen Sea
  • Love's Stratagem as The Girl
  • Nursing a Viper
  • The Forest Ranger's Daughter as The Forest Ranger's Daughter
  • Her Generous Way
  • Lest We Forget
  • The Awakening of Bess as Bess
  • Mrs. Jones Entertains as Mrs. Jones
  • The Awakening
  • The Winning Punch
  • The Right of Love
  • The Tide of Fortune
  • Never Again as Mrs. Henpecker, Temperance Crusader
  • The Coquette's Suitors
  • Justice in the Far North
  • The Blind Man's Tact
  • Jane and the Stranger as Jane
  • The Governor's Pardon
  • The New Minister
  • Mother Love as The Mother
  • The Broken Oath
  • The Time-Lock Safe as The Mother
  • His Sick Friend as The Wife
  • The Stage Note
  • Transfusion
  • The Miser's Daughter as The Miser's Daughter
  • His Second Wife
  • The Rosary
  • The Maelstrom
  • The New Shawl as Marie
  • Two Men as The Orphan
  • The Doctor's Perfidy
  • The Eternal Triangle as The Wife
  • The Nichols on Vacation as Mrs. Nichols
  • A Reno Romance as Grace
  • A Discontented Woman
  • A Self-Made Hero as The Girl
  • A Game for Two as Mrs. Henderson
  • The Call of the Circus
  • Old Heads and Young Hearts
  • Bear Ye One Another's Burden as Mrs. George Rand
  • The Irony of Fate
  • Once Upon a Time
  • Among the Roses as The Rose Girl
  • The Senator's Double
  • The Taming of Jane as Jane
  • The Widow as The Widow
  • The Right Girl
  • Debt
  • Pressed Roses
  • All the World's a Stage
  • The Count of Montebello as The Heiress
  • The Call
  • The Forest Ranger's Daughter
  • The Mistake
  • His Bogus Uncle as The Object of Their Affection
  • Age Versus Youth as Nora Blake
  • A Show Girl's Stratagem as Ethel Lane
  • The Test as Miss Gillman
  • Nan's Diplomacy as Nan
  • Vanity and Its Cure as Effie Hart
  • His Friend, the Burglar as Mrs. Tom Dayton - The Wife
  • The Actress and the Singer as The Actress
  • Her Artistic Temperament as Flo
  • Her Child's Honor as The Mother
  • The Wife's Awakening as The Wife
  • Opportunity and the Man as Flora Hamilton
  • The Two Fathers as Gladys
  • The Hoyden as Gladys Weston
  • The Sheriff and the Man
  • A Fascinating Bachelor as The Nurse
  • That Awful Brother as Florence
  • Her Humble Ministry as The Reformed Woman
  • A Good Turn
  • The State Line as The Sheriff's Daughter
  • A Game of Deception as The Actress
  • The Professor's Ward as Edith - The Professor's Ward
  • Duke De Ribbon Counter as Lillian De Mille
  • Higgenses Versus Judsons as Freda Judson
  • The Little Rebel as Rosalind Trevaine
  • Always a Way as Ruth Craven
  • The Snare of Society as Mary Williams
  • During Cherry Time as Violet - the Country Girl
  • The Gypsy as Zara - the Gypsy
  • Her Two Sons as The Younger Brother's Wife
  • Through Jealous Eyes as Flo - the Doctor's Office Nurse
  • A Rebellious Blossom as Flo = the Rebellious Daughter
  • The Secret as Diana Stanhope
  • Romance of Pond Cove as Florence Earle
  • The Story of Rosie's Rose as Rosie Carter
  • The Life Saver as Jessie Storm - the Local Girl
  • The Matchmaker as Evelyn Bruce - the Young Governess
  • The Slavey's Affinity as Peggy - a Boarding House Drudge
  • The Maniac as Dora Elsmore
  • A Rural Conqueror as Marjorie Thorne
  • One on Reno as Mrs. Appleby
  • Aunt Jane's Legacy as Bessie Elkins - the Niece
  • His Chorus Girl Wife as Sybil Sanford - a Chorus Girl
  • A Blind Deception as Ellen Austin - the Nurse
  • A Head for Business as Phyllis Moore
  • A Girlish Impulse as Gladys Stevens
  • Art Versus Music as Ethel Vernon
  • The American Girl
  • Flo's Discipline
  • A Village Romance as Flo - the Country Girl
  • The Players as Flo Lakewood
  • Not Like Other Girls as Flo
  • Taking a Chance as Mrs. Flo Mills
  • The Mill Buyers as Flo
  • The Chance Shot as Flo
  • Her Cousin Fred as Flo Ballard
  • The Winning Punch as Nellie Wilson
  • After All as Margie
  • All for Love as Flo
  • Flo's Discipline as Florence Dow
  • The Advent of Jane as Dr. Jane Bixby
  • Tangled Relations as Florence the Governess
  • Betty's Nightmare as Betty
  • The Cross-Roads as Annabel Spaulding
  • The Angel of the Studio as Roxie
  • The Redemption of Riverton as June Martin
  • Sisters as Annie / Mary
  • The Lady Leone as Lady Leone Mervyn
  • A Surgeon's Heroism
  • The Closed Door as Florence Ashleigh
  • The Girl o'the Woods as Mab Hawkins
  • The Spender as Flo
  • His Wife's Child as Flo
  • Unto the Third Generation as Esther Stern
  • The Influence of Sympathy as The Wife
  • A Girl and Her Money as Florence Kingsley
  • Suffragette's Parade in Washington
  • The Counterfeiter
  • The Coryphee as Florence
  • The Romance of a Photograph as Flo
  • The False Bride as Florence Gould & Amy St. Clair
  • The Law's Decree as Flo
  • The Stepmother as Flo
  • The Honeymooners as Florence Blair
  • Diplomatic Flo as Flo
  • The Little Mail Carrier as Flo - the Little Mail Carrier
  • The Pawns of Destiny as Flo
  • The Bribe
  • A Disenchantment as Flo - the Maid
  • The Doctor's Testimony as Florence Lund
  • A Singular Cynic as Flo Welton
  • Her Ragged Knight as Flo - Bob's Ward
  • The Mad Man's Ward
  • The Honor of the Humble as Flo Soule - The Gamekeeper's Daughter
  • Counterfeiters as Flo
  • A Mysterious Mystery as Miss Lawrence
  • The Woman Who Won as Florence Lloyd
  • The Great Universal Mystery as Herself
  • Face on the Screen
  • The Love Craze

    Film

  • The Reg Girl
  • A Singular Sinner
  • Elusive Isabel as Isabel Thorne
  • The Unfoldment as Katherine Nevin
  • The Satin Girl as Sylvia
  • Lucretia Lombard
  • Gambling Wives as Polly Barker
  • The Johnstown Flood as Townswoman
  • The Greater Glory as Woman
  • Sweeping Against the Winds
  • Homicide Squad
  • Pleasure as Martha
  • The Hard Hombre as The Sister
  • So Big as Mina
  • Sinners in the Sun
  • Secrets as Minor Role
  • The Silk Express as Minor Role
  • The Old Fashioned Way as Minor Role
  • Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • The Crusades as Minor Role
  • Yellow Dust as Minor Role
  • One Rainy Afternoon as Minor Role
  • Hollywood Boulevard as Minor Role
  • Night Must Fall as Minor Role