Gladys Leslie ( Eng. Gladys Leslie ; March 5, 1899 - October 2, 1976) is an American actress of the silent cinema era, whose peak activity occurred in the 1910-1920s. Despite the fact that she was less known than Mary Pickford , she had a number of main movie roles from 1917 until the early 1920s and was one of the youngest stars of her time.
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Career
Leslie began her film career in 1915, starring in short films produced by the Edison Company . In 1917, she began acting in films produced by the Thanhouser Company in New Rochelle , among which was the tape The Vicar of Wakefield (1917). In its review of this film, the New York Herald ' newspaper called the actress "a girl with a million dollar smile," and the head of the studio, Edwin Tankhauser, is began to offer her the main roles [3] . Soon she played her main role in the 1917 film An Amateur Orphan , but after that she switched to Vitagraph Studios and starred in films of her production in 1918 and 1919. Leslie and the other then-star Vitagraph, Bessie Love , became the most popular actresses at that time [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] . At that time, Leslie was often compared to Mary Pickford [9] .
In 1920, Leslie stopped working with Vitagraph and then starred in various film studios. Her first non-Vitagraph film was the 1920 film A Child for Sale , directed by Ivan Abrams where she starred [10] [11] . In 1923, she played a major female role in the film Haldane of the Secret Service , where Harry Houdini also starred. Nevertheless, the number of main roles in films subsequently began to decline, and the last appearance of the actress in the movie took place in 1925. She always claimed that she would stop acting in films, "when the account in her bank is greatly replenished" [12] .
Personal life
Leslie was born in New York City on March 5, 1899, and died (under the name Gladys Leslie Moore) in Boyton Beach , in Florida on October 2, 1976, at the age of 77. [13]
Along with the then new trend of actors starring in advertising for popular brands in the 1920s, Leslie starred in an advertisement for the Tokio Beauty Cream brand, which claimed in its ad that it “gave the actress an attractive appearance” [14] .
Selected Filmography
- Ranson's Folly (1915)
- The Vicar of Wakefield as Sophia Primrose (Thanhouser, 1917) (starring Frederick Ward ) [15]
- An Amateur Orphan - Marcia Schuller (Thanhouser, 1917)
- It Happened To Adele - Adele ( Thanhouser , 1917)
- His Own People - Molly Conway (Vitagraph, 1917) (joint participation with Harry T. Mori ) [16] [17]
- The Wooing of Princess Pat - Princess Pat (Vitagraph, 1918)
- Little Miss No-Account - Patty Barring (Vitagraph, 1918)
- The Little Runaway - Anne Akushla (Vitagraph, 1918)
- The Soap Girl as Marjorie Sanford (Vitagraph, 1918) [18]
- Wild Primrose - Primerose Standish (Vitagraph, 1918)
- Nymph of the Foothills - Emma Cheney (Vitagraph, 1918)
- The Mating - Nancy Fann (Vitagraph, 1918)
- The Beloved Impostor - Betty (Vitagraph, 1918)
- Fortune's child (Vitagraph, 1919)
- Miss Dulcie from Dixie - Dulchi Colpeper (Vitagraph, 1919)
- A Stitch In Time - Phoebe Ann (Vitagraph, 1919, director Ralph Ince )
- The Adventure Shop (1919)
- Too Many Crooks - Boston Fanny (Vitagraph, 1919, director Ralph Ince )
- The Girl-Woman - Belinda (Vitagraph, 1919)
- The Gray Towers Mystery - June Wheeler (Vitagraph, 1919) [19]
- A Child for Sale (Graphic Films, 1920)
- The Midnight Bride (Vitagraph, 1920)
- Straight is the Way (Cosmopolitan, 1921) (starring Matt Moore )
- Jim the Penman (1921) (starring Lionel Barrymore ) [20]
- God's Country and the Law (1921)
- Timothy's Quest (1922) [21]
- The Darling of the Rich (1922)
- If Winter Comes (1923)
- Man and Wife (1923) (with Maurice Costello )
- Haldane of the Secret Service (1923) (with Harry Houdini )
- Enemies of Youth (1925) (with Malon Hamilton )
- Pearl of Love (1925) (with Betty Balfour )
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Internet Movie Database - 1990.
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ (12 May 1917). Florence LaBadie, Irresistible Star, “When Love Was Blind” , Calgary Daily Herald
- ↑ Slide, Anthony Slide & Gevinson, Alan. The Big V: a history of the Vitagraph Company , p. 90-91 (1987)
- ↑ Bennett, Whitman (June 1920). The Artistic Influence of the Motion Picture , Munsey's Magazine (photo of Leslie)
- ↑ Nunn, William Curtis. Marguerite Clark, America's darling of Broadway and the silent screen , p. 100 (1981)
- ↑ Dean, Daisy (December 21, 1922). News Notes From Movieland , St Petersburg Times
- ↑ (February 18, 1926). At The Theaters , St. Petersburg Times
- ↑ Howe, Herbert. A Truly Ingenuous Ingenue , Photoplay p. 27 (July 1918)
- ↑ (18 January 1920). Picture Plays and People , The New York Times (“Gladys Leslie, who recently finished the term of her contract with Vitagraph, has signed up to star in a picture to be directed by Ivan Abramson.”) (Film was “A Child for Sale »)
- ↑ Questions and Answers , Photoplay (June 1920), p. 113 (reporting in response to a fan question that Leslie was no longer with Vitagraph, and had recently made a picture with Ivan Abramson , which would have been 1920's A Child for Sale )
- ↑ Wollstein, Hans J. Gladys Leslie - Biography Archived January 16, 2013. , AllRovi , Retrieved September 19, 2011
- ↑ Vazzana, Eugene Michael. Silent film necrology: births and deaths of over 9000 performers, directors, producers, and other filmmakers of the silent era, through 1993 , p. 195 (1995)
- ↑ Barbas, Samantha. Movie crazy: fans, stars, and the cult of celebrity , p. 52 (2001)
- ↑ The Vicar of Wakefield Archived February 23, 2017 at Wayback Machine , Thanhouser.org (full movie available online), Retrieved September 16, 2011
- ↑ Langman, Larry. American film cycles: the silent era , p. 152 (1998) (summary of plot of His Own People )
- ↑ Slide, Alan. The cinema and Ireland , p. 104 (1988)
- ↑ (1918 September) The Soap Girl - Vitagraph , Photoplay , p. 79
- ↑ (October 14, 1919). Girl Fights For Fortune Left Her , Hartford Courant ("Miss Gladys Leslie is a very attractive young heiress in" Gray Towers Mystery, "the Vitagraph picture at the Princess Theater the first half of the week. The story is that of a young girl who inherits a fortune from her uncle but is forced to fight for it ... ")
- ↑ (10 April 1921) Gladys Leslie , New York Tribune (brief)
- ↑ (June 28, 1923). Timothy's Quest To Open At Grand Today , Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
Links
- Gladys Leslie on the Internet Movie Database
- The Vicar of Wakefield (1917) , full movie on Thanhouser.org