Famous Actors of the Past

                         

 

Although this twenty year old was very successful on the stage she still made the switch over to film in 1907.  Florence Turner had been acting since age three and as was common in her time, when she switched over to film she was expected to combine several jobs.  Back in the 1900’s producers were reluctant to name their most popular actors so at the beginning of her career Florence Turner became “The Vitagraph Girl”.

 

 
 

Hobart Bosworth may have also been a successful stage actor and producer, but when he switched over to film he quickly became L.A.’s favorite cowboy. 

 
 

Mabel Normund and Mack Sennet were known for being a comic duo.  They both starred together in the films “Cohen Collects a Debt” and “The Water Nymph”.

 
 

As one of France’s most beloved stars her death by car crash in 1920 was truly tragic.  Born Suzanne Gueudret she was killed coming home from shooting the film “I Essar”.

 
 

When the he starred in “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” came to movie theaters it In the 1920’s almost the entire female population was mesmerized by Rudolph Valentino.  is said that when women saw him swoop across the screen they fainted dead away in the aisles.

 

 
 

Bebe signed a long term contract to Paramount in 1919.  She is said to be one of Hollywood’s most versatile stars both equally charming and as dramatic and serious.  Bebe has been acting since four and made her film debut at age seven.  In her teens she was in around two hundred episodes of “Lonesome Luke” with the actor Harold Lloyd.

 
 

Although we remember Shirley Temple as the bright eyed girl who sang about animal crackers she has definitely changed.  After she won ‘The Littlest Rebel’, ‘The Little Colonel’ and the ‘Curly Top’ awards she now goes by Shirley Temple Black and is an ambassador.

 

 
 

When in 1955 her latest film “The Seven Year Itch” was established as one of the years biggest hits Fox offered an improved contract to the famous actress, depicting she would earn $100,000 per film.  Her many fans were aggrieved by Marilyn’s suspicious death in the early sixties.

 

 
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