Veronica Cooper (née Balfe; May 27, 1913 – February 16, 2000) was an American actress who appeared in "The Gay Nighties" under the name Sandra Shaw. She was the wife of the actor Gary Cooper and mother of painter Maria Cooper Janis.
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Veronica Cooper
Veronica Cooper | Introduction
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Helena, Montana, United States
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Natural, authentic, and understated acting style
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Veronica Balfe
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The Thundering Herd, Wild Horse Mesa, The Johnstown Flood
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Balfe was sent to Miss Bennett's School for Girls for her education. In 1933, she went to see her uncle, Cedric Gibbons, in Hollywood. She played parts in "King Kong", "Blood Money", and "No Other Woman", as well as the sleepwalking countess in the Clark & McCullough comedy short "The Gay Nighties" (1933). She also played herself in "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3" (1942), and appeared in a few television shows and documentaries.
Veronica Cooper | Career
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Miriam Cooper | Partial filmography
Cooper began her career in the 1950s, appearing as a supporting player in films with stars like Maureen O'Hara, Glenn Ford, Tony Curtis, and Henry Fonda. Her first film role was as Myra in the 1953 western film, "The Redhead from Wyoming". She later appeared in small roles in "The Man from the Alamo", "Over-Exposed", "5 Steps to Danger", "Rock All Night", "House of Women", "13 West Street", "The Intruder", "Black Zoo", "The Glory Guys", "Tony Rome", "The Boston Strangler" and "Kansas City Bomber". Cooper was a fixture on episodic television throughout the 1950s and 1970s. In 1956, she was cast as Mrs.
Jeanne Cooper | Film and television work
Hurst appeared in fifteen films in the 1950s and '60s. By the early 1960s she began to act frequently in both British and American television series. She had roles in "The Pursuers" (1961), "Public Eye" (1966), "The Baron" (1967), "Man in a Suitcase" (1968), "Detective" (1968), "Market in Honey Lane" (1967), "The Troubleshooters" (1969), "Fraud Squad" (1970), "The Persuaders!" (1971), "Dixon of Dock Green" (1968–71), "The Flaxton Boys" (1971), and "General Hospital" (1972–75).
Veronica Hurst | Television
In early 1925, Cooper began his film career in silent pictures such as "The Thundering Herd" and "Wild Horse Mesa" with Jack Holt, "Riders of the Purple Sage" and "The Lucky Horseshoe" with Tom Mix, and "The Trail Rider" with Buck Jones. He worked for several Poverty Row studios, but also the already emergent major studios, Famous Players-Lasky and Fox Film Corporation. While his skilled horsemanship led to steady work in Westerns, Cooper found the stunt workwhich sometimes injured horses and riders"tough and cruel". Hoping to move beyond the risky stunt work and obtain acting roles, Cooper paid for a screen test and hired casting director Nan Collins to work as his agent.
Gary Cooper | Silent films, 1925–28
After reconciling with Walsh, Cooper decided to keep working in films. Her first film back in Hollywood was for B. P. Schulberg was "The Girl Who Came Back" (1923), making $1,000 a week. The picture did well and was hailed as a comeback. Schulberg asked her to make two more pictures for him, and she agreed. She also made two films for other companies. Cooper's final picture was "The Broken Wing", alongside her old friend Walter Long.
Miriam Cooper | Final films
She left Fox and appeared in movies as a freelance and at Universal Studios, where she appeared in an Abbott and Costello picture and the Francis the Talking Mule movie "Francis Covers the Big Town" (1953), her last picture.
Nancy Guild | Film career
Fanny Cogan (1866 – May 18, 1929) was a stage and film actress of the silent movie era from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cogan appeared on stage in "The Bohemian Girl". She later went into movies. Her screen credits number five. She had roles in "The Shell Game" (1918), "The Cross Bearer" (1918), "The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser, the Fall of the Hohenzollerns" (1919), "The Woman of Lies" (1919), and "The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes" (1920). Fanny Hay Cogan died in Lenox Hospital in New York City in 1929. She was 64 years old. Cogan was the widow of scenario writer James P.
Fanny Cogan | Introduction
Cooper was born in San Francisco to a well-known theatrical family. Her mother, Georgia Woodthorpe, was an actress, as was her sister, Georgie Cooper. Her nephew, George Stevens, went on to become a celebrated Hollywood director. Her brother Harry was a cinematographer. She got her start in Bay Area theater productions before moving to Hollywood. She appeared chiefly in character roles and comedic parts. After appearing in a few short films in the early 1930s, she decided to pursue a career as a screenwriter. She wrote dozens of scripts over the course of her career, many of which were Westerns.
Olive Cooper | Biography
Veronica Cooper (née Balfe; May 27, 1913 – February 16, 2000) was an American actress who appeared in "The Gay Nighties" under the name Sandra Shaw. She was the wife of the actor Gary Cooper and mother of painter Maria Cooper Janis.
Veronica Cooper | Introduction
Cooper concluded the year with appearances in two unsuccessful films: "I Take This Woman" (also 1931) with Carole Lombard, and "His Woman" with Claudette Colbert. The demands and pressures of making ten films in two years left Cooper exhausted and in poor health, suffering from anemia and jaundice. He had lost during that period, and felt lonely, isolated, and depressed by his sudden fame and wealth. In May 1931, Cooper left Hollywood and sailed to Algiers and then Italy, where he lived for the next year. During his time abroad, Cooper stayed with the Countess Dorothy di Frasso at the Villa Madama in Rome, where she taught him about good food and vintage wines, how to read Italian and French menus, and how to socialize among Europe's nobility and upper classes.
Gary Cooper | Hollywood stardom, 1929–35
Cooper turned to film full-time in 1940, finding success in Hollywood in a variety of character roles and was frequently cast as a disapproving, aristocratic society woman, although she sometimes played lively, approachable types, as she did in "Rebecca" (1940). She was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performances as Bette Davis's domineering mother in "Now, Voyager" (1942), a sceptical nun in "The Song of Bernadette" (1943), and Rex Harrison's mother, Mrs. Higgins, in "My Fair Lady" (1964). In 1945, after playing the role of Clarissa Scott in the film "The Valley of Decision", for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer she was given a contract with the studio.
Gladys Cooper | Later career
Edna Mae Cooper (July 19, 1900 – June 27, 1986) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 79 films between 1911 and 1927.
Edna Mae Cooper | Introduction
from Clark Atlanta University and worked in marketing for Colgate-Palmolive, L'Oréal, and General Electric before becoming a film producer.
Nekisa Cooper | Introduction
Virginia Kirtley (November 11, 1888 – August 19, 1956) was an American film actress and writer during the silent era. She appeared in 55 films in the 1910s and 1920s. She attended school in Colorado at Cutler Academy and Colorado College.
Virginia Kirtley | Introduction
In 1948, Mitchell had a minor role as Jeny in Frank Capra's "State of the Union". Her last screen credit was in director Fred Zinneman's film adaptation of "The Member of the Wedding" (1952), portraying a townswoman.
Rhea Mitchell | 1920–1952: Later career
After a prolific film career in the 1910s she retired from acting in 1916. Many of her films were made with the Thanhouser Company.
Viola Alberti | Early Years
After her 1934 break-up with MacArthur, Cooper attempted to find roles in Hollywood, but in vain.
Elizabeth Cooper | Film career
Nellie Parker Spaulding (August 4, 1870 – June 18, 1945) was an American silent film actress who appeared in at least 37 films between 1915 and 1925.
Nellie Parker Spaulding | Introduction
Jarr and the Society Circus" (1915), "Her Majesty" (1922), "God's Great Wilderness" (1927), "His First Command" (1929), and "Resurrection" (1931). Tapley was frequently called the "Mother of Movies". She served as official hostess at a number of motion picture expositions at different locales throughout the country. In 1916–1917 Rose toured America as a representative of the film industry. She made appearances in front of state legislatures, businesses, and women's clubs. All of this to promote interest in the quality of movies.
Rose Tapley | Career
From 1915 through 1919, she appeared in another 32 films, mostly in supporting roles. Her last film appearance during this period was the 1919 film "The Lottery Man", in which she starred with Wanda Hawley and Wallace Reid. During the 1920s, her career began to slow, appearing in 22 films between 1920 and 1926, with her biggest film role during that time being in the 1922 film "The Young Rajah" with Rudolph Valentino. From 1927 to 1929, her career almost completely halted compared to her previous years, with only five film appearances during this period, most notably with Buddy Roosevelt in "The Cowboy Cavalier" in 1928.
Fanny Midgley | Biography
Betty Bouton (September 10, 1891 - ?) was an American actress from Pennsylvania. She appeared in 16 films between 1919 and 1924, with her last film being the Samuel Goldwyn part-Technicolor production "Cytherea" (1924).
Betty Bouton | Introduction
Forbes went to Hollywood and made a number of shorts and films. In 1929, she was in "Harry Rosenthal and His Bath and Tennis Club Orchestra", 1930 she was in "The Fight"& "Seeing-Off Service", and in 1934 she was in the movies "Bachelor Bait", "If This Isn't Love" and "Down to Their Last Yacht". She received a series of threatening letters which dissuaded her from continuing in motion pictures. She donated her salary as a movie extra to charity because of the money she was willed by Richmond.
Hazel Forbes | Film
After more than 20 years performing on stage, Walters expanded her career into films. A few of her early screen appearances from 1918 and 1919 are the six-reel melodrama "The Woman Who Gave", which was filmed in New York in the Adirondack Mountains; "The Zero Hour"; "Little Miss Hoover"; "Through the Toils"; and the comedy "The Misleading Widow". In its review of "The Woman Who Gave" in November 1918, "Variety" gives the film a positive assessment and highlights Walters' performance. "Dorothy Walters", the paper reports, "as Delia Picard, a matronly housekeeper, supplied the comedy and received a number of laughs." During the 1920s, Walters continued to divide her time acting in films and performing on stage.
Dorothy Walters | Films
As Violet spent her formative years acting in the theater she never appeared in the genre silent films. She appeared in talkies beginning with the Constance Bennett film "Our Betters" (1933). She appeared in several more films, including the evil spinster Miss Murdstone in the Dickens film adaption "David Copperfield" (1935) and Boris Karloff's mother in the horror film "The Invisible Ray" (1936). Kemble-Coopers last movie was the MGM costumer "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), where she portrayed Lady Capulet.
Violet Kemble-Cooper | Film
The 1921 edition of the "Motion Picture Studio Directory and Trade Annual" includes an entry for her, recognizing her screen work, mostly in New York-based productions. In addition to recounting some of her film and stage experience, the directory provides a basic physical description of her and even specifies her home address in 1921: "Hght., 5, 6; wght., 196; reddish gray hair; gray eyes. Ad[dress]., 226 W. 50th st., N.Y. Circle 4673." In 1924 and 1925, Walters performed in no less than eight more films: "Pied Piper Malone", "The Love Bandit", "The Hoosier Schoolmaster", "The Confidence Man", "Her Indiscretion", "A Man Must Live", "The Street of Forgotten Men", and "A Kiss for Cinderella".
Dorothy Walters | Films
The part wound up being cut from the film, but she was encouraged to continue. Similar roles followed, including "All Women Have Secrets" (1939), "Dancing Co-Ed" (also 1939), "Young as Your Feel" (1940), and "Forty Little Mothers" (also 1940). "Forty Little Mothers" was the first time she let her hair down on screen.
Veronica Lake | Constance Keane
Dame Gladys Constance Cooper, (18 December 1888 – 17 November 1971) was an English actress whose career spanned seven decades on stage, in films and on television. As a teenager in Edwardian musical comedy and pantomime, she starred in dramatic roles and silent films before the First World War. She managed the Playhouse Theatre from 1917 to 1933, where she played many roles. From the early 1920s Cooper won praise in plays by W. Somerset Maugham and others. In the 1930s she starred steadily in productions both in London's West End and on Broadway. Moving to Hollywood in 1940, Cooper found success in a variety of character roles.
Gladys Cooper | Introduction
Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included leading roles in 84 feature films. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era through to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His screen persona appealed strongly to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major film genres. His ability to project his own personality onto the characters he played contributed to his natural and authentic appearance on screen. Throughout his career, he sustained a screen persona that represented the ideal American hero. Cooper began his career as a film extra and stunt rider, but soon landed acting roles.
Gary Cooper | Introduction
Miriam Cooper (born Marian Cooper, November 7, 1891 – April 12, 1976) was a silent film actress who is best known for her work in early film including "The Birth of a Nation" and "Intolerance" for D. W. Griffith and "The Honor System" and "Evangeline" for her husband Raoul Walsh. She retired from acting in 1924 but was rediscovered by the film community in the 1960s, and toured colleges lecturing about silent films.
Miriam Cooper | Introduction
In the 1951 release "The Whistle at Eaton Falls", a film noir drama film produced by Louis de Rochemont, Dorothy portrays the widow of a mill owner. On television during this period, she also made several appearances in anthology television series. Her final film role was in 1963 in another Otto Preminger production, "The Cardinal", in which she plays the mother of the title character.
Dorothy Gish | Television and final films
After divorcing Walsh in 1926, Cooper never made another picture. She returned to New York and joined high society playing bridge and shopping. During World War II, Cooper volunteered for Red Cross, handing out doughnuts and writing letters for wounded soldiers. She attended Columbia University in the 1940s to study writing. She bought a farm in Chestertown, Maryland, hoping to be inspired. She wrote a novel and two plays, all of which went unpublished. The plays were based on two of her films and she sent them to FOX, but both were rejected. In the 1950s she moved to Virginia where she started a women's writing club.
Miriam Cooper | Later years
Allied Artists retained Hurst for a second film, "The Royal African Rifles" (1953). Her second American feature was directed by Lesley Selander and had a screenplay by Daniel Ullman. Hurst played the daughter of a traitor who assists in smuggling German arms to British East Africa during World War I. Some of her other film credits include "The Yellow Balloon" (1953), "Will Any Gentleman...?" (1953), "Bang! You're Dead" (1954), "Don't Blame The Stork" (1954), "The Gilded Cage" (1955), "Peeping Tom" (1960), "Dead Man's Evidence" (1962), "Live It Up" (1963), "Licensed to Kill" (1965) and "The Boy Cried Murder" (1965).
Veronica Hurst | Films
Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908 – May 23, 1997) was an American silent film actress, and one of the few to make a successful transition when films began using sound. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1908, Gulliver was named as a 1928 WAMPAS Baby Star. Gulliver was part of "The Collegians" silent series of the late 1920s, and did some silent serials with William Desmond, Jack Hoxie, and Hoot Gibson. With the beginning of sound films, she became a popular heroine in 1930s "cliffhangers", including "The Galloping Ghost", "Phantom of the West", "The Shadow of the Eagle", "The Last Frontier", and the 1936 "Custer's Last Stand".
Dorothy Gulliver | Introduction
Veronica Rose (8 July 1911 – 25 January 1968) was a British stage and film actress. During the 1930s she appeared in a number of films directed by or starring her husband Tom Walls, including several Aldwych Farce adaptations.
Veronica Rose | Introduction
She has also worked with George Kirke Spoor, distributor of screen equipment and Gilbert M. Anderson, or "Broncho Billy" Anderson, an actor, director and producer, who is the cowboy star in most of the films she worked in. Ultimately, Rector decided not to move to Hollywood, which became the centre of the film industry, and ran a flower shop in Hayward, California in later life. Most of her films are now lost, and none of her original scripts are known to survive.
Josephine Rector | Introduction
In an advertisement in "The New York Clipper", dated 1906, Vitagraph proclaimed that there was a "destruction by fire of a $2,000 automobile" and the picture was "founded on fact - startling in conception and execution - daringly realistic in plot and climax...not cheap, trashy, dime-novel melodrama, but a cleverly constructed, superbly acted production capable of holding the attention of intelligent, up-to-date audience". This was Florence Lawrence's first movie; she went on to star in more Vitagraph films, but her real name never appeared on the credits. She later went to work with Biograph Studios and after marrying Harry Solter, she moved to Independent Moving Pictures Company of America (IMP).
The Automobile Thieves | Background
She was also featured in "Hunters Are For Killing" (1970), an early Burt Reynolds movie. In an interview, Reynolds once joked that such films were typically shown in prisons and airplanes because no one in the audience could leave. She appeared in episodes of the television shows "The Bold Ones" and "Cade's County". She had an uncredited bit part in Christian Marquand's 1968 film "Candy", but her scene was deleted from the final print.
Jill Banner | Film and television
Back at her home studio she had a cameo in "Variety Girl" (1947) then was united with Ladd for the last time in "Saigon" (1948), in which she returned to her former peek-a-boo hairstyle; the movie was not particularly well received. Neither was a romantic drama, "Isn't It Romantic" (also 1948) or a comedy "The Sainted Sisters" (1948). In 1948 Paramount decided not to renew Lake's contract.
Veronica Lake | Final years at Paramount
Rhea Ginger Mitchell (December 10, 1890 – September 16, 1957) was an American film actress and screenwriter who appeared in over 100 films, mainly during the silent era. A native of Portland, Oregon, Mitchell began her acting career in local theater, and joined the Baker Stock Company after completing high school. She appeared in various regional theater productions on the West Coast between 1911 and 1913. In 1912, Mitchell signed with the New York Motion Picture Corporation, making her film debut in "The Colonel's Ward", directed by Edward LeSaint. In her early career, she earned the name of "the little stunt girl" because of her willingness to attempt thrilling scenes in motion pictures.
Rhea Mitchell | Introduction
Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1899, Reynolds first worked in films at age 12. She began as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's "Prodigal Daughters" (1923), and Cecil B. DeMille's "Feet of Clay" (1924), "The Golden Bed" (1925), "The Road to Yesterday" (1925) and "Dragnet Patrol" (1931) with George "Gabby" Hayes.
Vera Reynolds | Early life and career
Gilbert was born and raised in Chicago her moved with her brother and mother to Los Angeles when she was 14 (c. 1918), where she got into film after Monty Banks spotted her. In Hollywood she worked for Al Christie and Fox Studios, making over 50 film appearances from 1920, including the first time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appeared together on film, in "The Lucky Dog" (1921). Around 1926, when "The Johnstown Flood" was released she married entrepreneur Ashton Dearholt and bore him two children, Lee and Caryl Lee.
Florence Gilbert | Career
During her years with Bull's Eye Productions/Reelcraft, she began to expand towards the production end of film-making, as a unit department head on the films "Outwitted", "The Lady of the Law", "The Girl of the Rancho", "The Desert Vulture", and at least five other productions. She created Texas Guinan Productions in 1921 to produce "Code of the West", "Spitfire" and "Texas of the Mounted". After "I Am the Woman" and "The Stampede" for Victor Kremer Film Features, she returned to New York. Guinan was again seen on the screen with two sound pictures, playing slightly fictionalized versions of herself as a speakeasy proprietress in "Queen of the Night Clubs" (1929) and then "Broadway Thru a Keyhole" (1933, written by Walter Winchell) shortly before her death.
Texas Guinan | Films
She then had a role in the 1969 Elvis Presley film, "Charro!", which was directed by Charles Marquis Warren. Her last film with Hewitt was the exploitation actioner, "The Girls from Thunder Strip". This film about three bootlegging sisters taking on a gang of bikers was released in 1970. It also starred Maray Ayres and Casey Kasem. Her last film appears to be the exploitation westerner, "The Female Bunch" which starred Lon Chaney Jr., Russ Tamblyn, Jennifer Bishop, and Regina Carrol.
Megan Timothy | Film career
The film was slated to hit theaters in 2017. Veronica founded her own production company, Construction Film GmbH, in 2012.
Veronica Ferres | Career
As a featured player, he began to attract the attention of major film studios. On June 1, 1926, Cooper signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions for fifty dollars a week. Cooper's first important film role was a supporting part in "The Winning of Barbara Worth" (1926) starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky, in which he plays a young engineer who helps a rival suitor save the woman he loves and her town from an impending dam disaster. Cooper's experience living among the Montana cowboys gave his performance an "instinctive authenticity", according to biographer Jeffrey Meyers. The film was a major success.
Gary Cooper | Silent films, 1925–28
She returned to work, but collapsed after the film was completed. 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 ("The Unfoldment"), and then two supporting roles. All her film work after 1924 was in uncredited, bit parts.
Florence Lawrence | Victor Film Company
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.
Florence Lawrence | Early career: film and stage
Hoever in 1934 she was invited to join the film industry. This built on her enthusiasm for acting and drawing. She became an art director and production designer, and won an Oscar for Laurence Olivier's 1948 film of "Hamlet". It was said that for twenty-five years she was the only woman art director in the British film industry.
Carmen Dillon | Life
She would appear in another seventy-one films from 1913 to 1921, almost all of which were what are considered film shorts. In 1921, aged 29, she retired. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her work in the film industry at 1523 Vine Street. She was residing in Northport, Long Island, New York at the time of her death on October 9, 1967, aged 75. She was cremated at Fresh Pond Crematory D.B.A. U.S. Columbarium co. on October 13, 1967.
Edith Storey | Later life
"All films, she was producer unless otherwise noted."
Susan Cartsonis | Filmography
Lawrence edited Samuel Goldwyn Studio's first sound film, "Bulldog Drummond" (1929). She rejoined Columbia in 1934 and remained at the studio for the rest of her career, ending with "Pepe" (1960). Orson Welles biographer Charles Higham wrote that, when Lawrence was assigned to "The Lady from Shanghai" (1947), she reported to studio boss Harry Cohn that "the footage was a jumbled mess". She also informed Cohn that Welles "had not shot a single close-up"; Welles reluctantly obeyed orders to add some. Following poorly received previews, the studio instructed Lawrence to make drastic cuts, over an hour of footage, shortening the film to 87 minutes.
Viola Lawrence | Career
"All films, she was producer unless otherwise noted."
Polly Cohen Johnsen | Filmography
Lake moved to 20th Century Fox to make "Slattery's Hurricane" (1949), directed by DeToth. It was only a support role and there were not many other offers. In 1950 it was announced she and DeToth would make "Before I Wake" (from a suspense novel by Mel Devrett) and "Flanagan Boy". Neither was made. She appeared in "Stronghold" (1951), which she later described as "a dog", an independent production from Lippert Pictures shot in Mexico. She later sued for unpaid wages on the film. Lake and DeToth filed for bankruptcy that same year.
Veronica Lake | Leaving Paramount
Long won an AWGIE Award for each of these three films.
Joan Long | 1968-71: "The Picture That Moved", "Paddington Lace" and "The Passionate Industry"
Veronica Lake (born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman; November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd during the 1940s and her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late 1940s, Lake's career began to decline, due in part to her alcoholism. She made only one film in the 1950s, but made several guest appearances on television. She returned to the big screen in 1966 in the film "Footsteps in the Snow" (1966), but the role failed to revitalize her career. Lake's memoir, "Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake", was published in 1970.
Veronica Lake | Introduction
This page has most if not all of Betty Compson's known film appearances 1915–48. Films from 1915 to 1919 are shorts, mostly for Al Christie unless otherwise stated. A big breakout came in 1919 with "The Miracle Man" now lost. In the early-to-mid 1920s Compson was a major player at Paramount with her name above the title of her films. By the end of the decade she was free-lancing and appearing as feature and support with name below the title of the film. Her star definitely took a fall somewhere after marrying director James Cruze, and she would remain a feature support into the sound era for the rest of her film career.
Betty Compson filmography | Introduction
She continued with films until 1926.
Julia Hurley (actress) | Introduction
During the 1950s, however, Vickers' film career stalled.
Martha Vickers | Film
Cooper appeared in silent films from a variety of East Coast companies, including the All Star Film Corporation, the Famous Players Film Company, the Reliance Film Company, and the Kinemacolor Company of America. However, his longest association was with the Thanhouser Film Corporation of New Rochelle, New York, for whom he worked, usually as an actor but sometimes as a director, from 1914 to 1917. For example, Cooper appeared in Thanhouser's "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1915). Also at Thanhouser, he and Frank E. McNish were teamed together as the comedy duo "Oscar and Conrad." In the 1920s Cooper was a busy character actor in New York theaters.
Claude Cooper (actor) | Biography
Jenkins commissioned filming of her performances at the Verdi Club's signature annual event, the "Ball of the Silver Skylarks", held each October at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. All were thought lost until copies of the 1934 through 1939 and 1941 films were discovered in 2009. Jenkins historian Donald Collup has announced plans to feature excerpts from her filmed performances in an upcoming documentary.
Florence Foster Jenkins | Film
Her last movie appearance was in 1945, when she retired from show business at the age of 18 with 47 credits to her name.
Cora Sue Collins | Early life and career
Virginia Valli (January 18, 1895 – September 24, 1968) was an American stage and film actress whose motion picture career started in the silent film era and lasted until the beginning of the sound film era of the 1930s.
Virginia Valli | Introduction
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Lake has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard.
Veronica Lake | Hollywood Boulevard
She appeared in 17 more films by the time she received what is today her best-known role, opposite Rudolph Valentino in the 1925 film "Cobra". Throughout the silent film era her career thrived. From 1925 through 1929 she appeared in twenty eight films, most often portraying the heroine. With the advent of sound film her career stalled, and she retired from acting in 1929.
Gertrude Olmstead | Career
Her career started with her on contract with Warner Bros., beginning in 1932. With them she made a number of successful western films, usually starring as the heroine opposite cowboy stars such as Fred Scott, Bob Custer, Reb Russell, Wally Wales, and Bill Cody. She was best known for her work in the Busby Berkeley-musicals. She was Cinderella in the "Don't say goodnight" musical number in the movie "Wonder Bar" (1934), a beautiful girl in the movie "Dames". Perhaps her most famous part was that of the seamstress in the musical number "Spin a Little Web of Dreams" in the movie "Fashions of 1934".
Victoria Vinton | Early career
Cooper's career spanned thirty-six years, from 1925 to 1961. During that time, he appeared in eighty-four feature films in a leading role. He was a major movie star from the end of the silent film era to the end of the golden age of Classical Hollywood. His natural and authentic acting style appealed powerfully to both men and women, and his range of performances included roles in most major movie genres, including Westerns, war films, adventure films, drama films, crime films, romance films, comedy films, and romantic comedy films. He appeared on the "Motion Picture Herald" exhibitor's poll of top ten film personalities for twenty-three consecutive years, from 1936 to 1958.
Gary Cooper | Career assessment and legacy
By 1913 Alberti was a teacher of drama and pantomime. Later she went to the Selig Polyscope Company where in 1915 she wrote the scenarios for and acted in "When Love Was Mocked" and also acted in "The Print of the Nails" (1915); played the Society Leader in "The Sculptor's Model" (1915) and Mrs. Brentwood in "The Eternal Feminine" (1915). "The Studio Directory of Motion Picture News" for 29 January 1916 noted that she was "now at liberty."
Viola Alberti | Career
Learning of Brissac's situation after Colombo's death, he cast her as Mrs. Van Twerp in his 1935 comedy "[[Honeymoon Limited]]", and by 1937 she had become an established character actress in Hollywood. [[File:Virginia Brissac 1947.jpg|thumb|Virginia Brissac in "Captain From Castile" (1947)]]
Virginia Brissac | Career in film and television
Among several other plays, the next year she was Muriel Pym in "Milestones" at the Royalty Theatre. A highlight of 1913 was Dora in "Diplomacy" at Wyndham's Theatre. That year she also played the title role in "The Pursuit of Pamela" at the Royalty. In 1913 Cooper appeared in her first film, "The Eleventh Commandment", going on to make several more silent films during the First World War and shortly afterwards. She continued full-time stage work, however, including appearances as Lady Agatha Lazenby in "The Admirable Crichton" in 1916 and Clara de Foenix in "Trelawny of the Wells". In addition, in 1917, Cooper became co-manager, with Frank Curzon, of the Playhouse Theatre, taking over sole control from 1927 until she left in 1933.
Gladys Cooper | Early life and career
In 1913 she appeared in a silent film, "Broncho Billy’s Mistake" (1913). In 1914, she was in a play in Salt Lake City, "Just Like a Woman". In 1916 she made films with dancer and artist Lolita Perine, "Mona, the Spirit of the Heights" and "The Lure of Venus", which included scenes of female nudity, "Venus, clothed only in the crystal atmosphere of Marin County," as one San Francisco newspaper explained. The scenes were cut and the films went unfinished in the legal entanglements that followed. She formed her own production company in 1917, and directed and produced one silent film, "The Good-Bad Wife" (1921), based on "The Wild Fawn", a story by Mary Imlay Taylor.
Vera McCord | Film
Veronica Hurst (born 11 November 1931) is an English film, stage and television actress who was born in Malta. She was brought up in Tooting, London.
Veronica Hurst | Introduction
Cooper felt that her early screen performances were sub par. She was signed by the Fox Film Corporation in the early 1920s and was later courted by both Paramount Pictures and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. She had roles in "Charge It" (1921), "Live and Let Live" (1921), "What No Man Knows" (1921), "Desert Blossoms" (1921), and "Do and Dare" (1922) with Tom Mix. Her last film was "The Face on the Bar Room Floor" (1932). On television, she appeared in the play "Sorry, Wrong Number" in 1946 and in an episode of "The Phil Silvers Show" in 1957. In the 1960s, Cooper performed frequently with John Kenley's Kenley Players summer stock theater company in Ohio and Michigan.
Dulcie Cooper | Career
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Cooper became a major movie star in 1929 with the release of his first talking picture, "The Virginian" (1929), which was directed by Victor Fleming and co-starred Mary Brian and Walter Huston. Based on the popular novel by Owen Wister, "The Virginian" was one of the first sound films to define the Western code of honor and helped establish many of the conventions of the Western movie genre that persist to the present day. According to biographer Jeffrey Meyers, the romantic image of the tall, handsome, and shy cowboy hero who embodied male freedom, courage, and honor was created in large part by Cooper in the film.
Gary Cooper | Hollywood stardom, 1929–35
Knight came to California in 1906. She lived in Pasadena until five years before her death. She performed in films under the name Lillian Knight. Two of her early films were "Custer's Last Fight" and "The Deserter". Later she worked in Tom Mix films. She was in an accident in 1913 that stalled her career. She did not walk unassisted for four years following the accident.
Lillian Knight | Film career
A 1940 edition of "The Pittsburgh Press" revealed more about how he became involved in the motion picture industry: A handsome, white-haired man, dressed like a clergyman, stood on a crowded platform and delivered an opening invocation for a national political convention. The delegates and gallery guests were extras hired for Frank Capra's "Meet John Doe" ... part of the script written by Robert Rlskin. But there seemed to be something especially real about it. When a sequence of shots had been made, a bystander went over to the benign-looking speaker and said, "Were you ever a preacher or a priest? With that face, and the way you talked, you certainly" An actress interrupted: "I don't know who you are, but I wanted to say that that was a marvelous job.
John Moynihan Tettemer | Business and creative work
She retired from film acting when she became an adult, but was active in local theatre productions as a playwright and composer. She was married twice; to Richard Goates, and Eliseo Busnardo. She is considered to be one of the last surviving actors from the 1930s period of Hollywood's Golden Years.
Marilyn Knowlden | Introduction
Victoria Horne (November 1, 1911 – October 10, 2003) was an American character actress, appearing in 49 films (uncredited in 25 of these) during the 1940s and 1950s.
Victoria Horne | Introduction
After touring with a local stock company, she convinced her parents to let her go to Hollywood around 1917 to seek her fortune in the movies. Early on, she secured work as an extra in Mack Sennett comedies, but she was soon discovered by Tom Mix and selected to be the cowboy's leading lady. She became known as a leading lady in 1920s Westerns.
Kathleen O'Connor (actress) | Hollywood career
She retired from the screen in 1929. Her final screen credits are roles in "Two Sisters" (1929), "One Splendid Hour" (1929), and with her sister Leonie Flugrath, better known as Shirley Mason (years earlier she had appeared with her older sister, Edna Flugrath, in the 1923 film "The Social Code"), in "The Show of Shows" (1929). By the time she made her final film appearance in 1933, she had appeared in over 100 films. She briefly came out of retirement to appear in her first and only television role in a small part on "Lux Video Theatre" in 1956. More than 50 years after her retirement from the screen, Dana appeared in the Kevin Brownlow/David Gill documentary series "Hollywood" (1980), discussing her career as a silent film star during the 1920s.
Viola Dana | Film career
Dean promoted Hopper's career and cast her as the leading lady in several major films for Associated Talking Pictures in the mid-1930s. However, the films did badly at the box office and her career waned. Two films she was scheduled to appear in, "Grace Darling" and "Come Live with Me", never materialised.
Victoria Hopper | Biography
She continued to act regularly in films until marrying Jack Wrather in 1947. After that Granville appeared in only three films and made several guest appearances on television. She progressed to produce the long-running series "Lassie" (1959–1973). She was also a businesswoman and philanthropist. In 1960, Granville received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. She was appointed to the John F. Kennedy Center Board of Trustees by president Richard Nixon in 1972 and for another term by president Ronald Reagan in 1982.
Bonita Granville | Introduction
The coming of sound made Davies nervous because she had a stutter. Her career continued, however, and she made several comedies and musicals during the late 1920s and 1930s, including "Marianne" (1929), "The Hollywood Revue of 1929" (1929), "Not So Dumb" (1930), "The Florodora Girl" (1930), "The Bachelor Father" (1931), "Five and Ten" (1931) with Leslie Howard, "Polly of the Circus" (1932) with Clark Gable, "Blondie of the Follies" (1932), "Peg o' My Heart" (1933), "Going Hollywood" (1933) with Bing Crosby, and "Operator 13" (1934) with Gary Cooper. She was involved with many aspects of her films and was considered an astute businesswoman.
Marion Davies | Sound films
McKenzie appeared in numerous uncredited roles throughout the 1930s, with occasional credited roles in films such as "The Boss Cowboy" (1934) as Sally Nolan, and the anti-cannabis propaganda film "Assassin of Youth" (1937) as Linda Clayton. In 1938, she began to appear mainly in Western films, such as "Ghost Town Riders" (1938) as Molly Taylor (credited as Fay Shannon), and "When the Daltons Rode" (1940) as Hannah. She had a small part in the 1939 film "Gunga Din", which was inducted by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1999 with the motivation of being "culturally significant".
Fay McKenzie | Sound films
In its December 8, 1940 issue, "The Philadelphia Inquirer" carries a news item that provides some background information on Wilde:
Heather Wilde | Stage and film
Her boys also appeared in some of the films making the work more of a family affair. She made her last film appearance in 1920.
Florence Hackett | Introduction
in an elevator the day she returned from her honeymoon, when he mistook her for his next potential client, eventually sending his secretary to chase after her. A talent scout for RKO Pictures attended a performance, and Dunne signed the studio's contract, appearing in her first movie, "Leathernecking" (1930), an adaptation of the musical "Present Arms". Already in her 30s when she made her first film, she would be in competition with younger actresses for roles, and found it advantageous to evade questions that would reveal her age, so publicists encouraged the belief that she was born in 1901 or 1904; the former is the date engraved on her tombstone.
Irene Dunne | Career
Filming took place in Jacksonville, Florida with Anna Q. Nilsson and Guy Coombs as the leads. For the 50th anniversary of the American Civil War, the company made several Civil War-themed shorts. For these films, Cooper learned to play drums and ride horseback. She was already able to swim, and these skills were used in several of her shorts. As time passed Cooper's roles grew in size and she received favorable reviews. Feeling her roles were as big as Nilsson's (who was making $65 a week) and much more dangerous, she requested a raise. They fired her that weekend and she returned to New York and to art school at Cooper Union.
Miriam Cooper | Kalem Company
Veronica Balfe was born to Veronica Gibbons and Harry Balfe, Jr. Following her parents' divorce, she lived in Paris with her mother. Balfe did not see her father for many years, but kept in touch with her grandfather, who owned a ranch in California. Balfe saw her father a few years before his death in the 1950s. Her mother married Paul Shields, a successful Wall Street financier. An avid sportswoman, Balfe was known to her friends by the nickname, "Rocky."
Veronica Cooper | Early life
Violet Kemble-Cooper (12 December 1886 – 17 August 1961) was an English-American stage and film actress who appeared on stage and in Hollywood film.
Violet Kemble-Cooper | Introduction
"All films, she was producer unless otherwise noted."
Deborah Snyder | Filmography
Brady, President of the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry, and D.W. Griffith. Their task was to utilize film as a tool of information regarding the "plans and purposes" of the United States in World War I. Brady was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to mobilize the motion-picture industry. Kane was assigned to the Food Commission. In addition to Mutual she was associated with Metro Pictures, Pathé, and World. Kane filed a suit against Mutual in 1918, asking $33,500 for alleged breach of contract. "The Scarlet Oath" (1917) was a challenging movie for Kane who played the dual role of two women.
Gail Kane | Movie career
In 1937, she was signed under contract to Warner Bros. Studios and made her film debut in "The Prince and the Pauper" (1937). Her other screen credits include parts in such films as "Jezebel" (1938), "Cowboy from Brooklyn" (1938), "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse" (1938), "Eternally Yours" (1939), "When Tomorrow Comes" (1939), "Broadway Melody of 1940", "Ball of Fire" (1941), "How Green Was My Valley" (1941), "Mrs. Miniver" (1942), "Ministry of Fear" (1944), "Song of the South" (1946), "Out of the Past" (1947), "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), and "Life With Father" (1947). During her time in Hollywood she appeared in approximately 103 films.
Mary Field | Hollywood and television
She often collaborated with directors Joseph Kane, Lew Landers, and Joseph Santley.
Olive Cooper | Biography
Hurst was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship to RADA and made her film debut as Joan Webb in "Laughter in Paradise" (1951) with director Mario Zampi describing her as "one of the greatest potential screen stars I have ever seen". The film featured Alastair Sim, Fay Compton and Guy Middleton. She was then contracted to the Associated British Picture Corporation for seven years. In 1952 she appeared in the critically acclaimed Battle of Britain film "Angels One Five", directed by George More O'Ferrall and starring alongside Jack Hawkins and John Gregson. In one of her most popular roles, as Kitty Murray in "The Maze" (1953), she was loaned out to Allied Artists.
Veronica Hurst | Early career
Those films, according to a 1913 news item in "The Motion Picture News", included scenes with Barbara Tennant, O. A. C. Lund, Julia Stewart, and various other "beautiful, quaintly gowned young women and handsome young men, garbed in costumes of bold sir knights and the scarlet coated uniforms of the English army in Colonial days."
Lady Babbie | Production
Following her long period of costume design work, Sylbert took on executive production management roles at the vice president level, first at Warner Borothers, then at United Artists, where she was known, in particular, for her skills at conflict resolution when filmmakers were at odds with the studios. After this period, she began a deep partnership with Goldie Hawn, beginning with the film "Private Benjamin" (1980). Ultimately, the two of them created the Hawn/Sylvebert Movie Company, which produced a number of films, including "Protocol" (1984) and "Something to Talk About" (1995).
Anthea Sylbert | Career
He became the vice president of Cinerama Productions in the 1950s. He was also elected a board member. After failing to convince other board members to finance skilled technicians, Cooper left Cinerama with Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to form C.V. Whitney Productions. Cooper continued to outline movies to be shot in Cinerama. C.V. Whitney Productions only produced a few films. Cooper was the executive producer for "The Searchers" (1956), again directed by Ford.
Merian C. Cooper | Argosy Pictures and Cinerama
She was founder and president of the National Club for Better Movies. Later in life, she taught speech and acting. She bought the rights to the dramatic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's "The Man on Horseback" in 1940, a show she had performed in San Francisco in 1912.
Vera McCord | Later activities