Guest Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 hi all.... see my new article on the first "movie star" at midnightpalace.com Message was edited by: drednm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGulch Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Very interesting. I wonder what brought so many Canadians south, gravity maybe. With so much talent in Vaudeville, etc. Florence, Mary Pickford and Norma Shearer definately beat the odds! Roddy McDowell had a marker placed on her neglected grave sometime in the 90's- 'The Biograph Girl- The First Movie Star.' Wonder what's on L.B. Mayer's grave... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Mayer is in an unmarked grave, isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissGulch Posted January 26, 2008 Share Posted January 26, 2008 Unmarked or hidden, that would be sad. There was a film historian on CBC radio a few weeks back talking about Florence and you filled out the story. She was yet another person marketed as a product with shrewd trickery and that had to have lasting effects. If it ain't greedy directors it was those freaks of nature known as stage mothers! Flo's inventiveness (like Gloria Swanson who wanted to patent luminescent paint) is a lasting legacy to her intelligence, as you said in your article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 I'm sure I have never seen Florence Lawrence but a few of her early films have survived and are available in various DW Griffith collections..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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