In her autobiography entitled "Screen Acting", it is invigorating that actress Mae Marsh remains steadfast to her subject- just that, the silent film actress in front of the camera acting, perhaps more so than Lillian Gish in her autobiography. As part of the integrated instances autobiographical reminiscence sprinkled sparingingly within, Marse briefly casts a fond, but brief cursory glance at some of her films, "Yet no pictures I will ever make will be dearer to me than say...... The Escape, Hoo Doo Ann, The Wharf Rat, ect...".
The films "Hoo Doo Ann" (five reels) and "The Wharf Rat" (five reels) were both filmed during 1916 for Triangle Films, the former with a photoplay by producer D. W. Griffith, the later with a photoplay by Anita Loos. Mae Marsh that year also starred in "Wild Girl of the Sierras" (five reels) scripted by Anita Loos and co-starred with Robert Harron in "The Marriage of Molly-O" [D.W. Griffith) and "Child of the Paris Streets" (Lloyd Ingraham). Mae Marsh appears prominently with Robert Harron in the 1916 film "Intolerance" directed by D. W. Griffith, the titles of which were written by Anita Loos.
Silent Film
D.W. Griffith
Scott Lord on the Silent Film of Greta Garbo, Mauritz Stiller, Victor Sjostrom as Victor Seastrom, John Brunius, Gustaf Molander - the Golden Age of Swedish Silent Film........Lost Films in Found Magazines, among them Victor Seastrom directing John Gilbert and Lon Chaney, the printed word offering clues to deteriorated celluloid, extratextual discourse illustrating how novels were adapted to the screen; the photoplay as a literature;how it was reviewed, audience reception perhaps actor to actor.
Scott Lord on Silent Film
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