Vintage Glamour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Maude Fealy as Mary, An Orphan's Romance, 1913

    Alice Mann (10th October 1899 – 2nd March 1986)  was an American silent film actress.

 

 

 

 Mary Miles Minter, her dog, and her mother Charlotte Shelby at the beach under an umbrella 1916                        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   U.S.A. Release: 30th October 1916 - Also released as "The Virtuous Outcast".

 

 

 

 

 

  Lillian Hall-Davis  (23 rd   June 1898 – 25 th   October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films. Born  Lilian Hall Davis , the daughter of a London taxi driver her films included a part-colour version of  I Pagliacci  (1923),  The Passionate Adventure  (1924),  Blighty  (1927),  The Ring  (1927) and  The Farmer’s Wife  (1928), the latter two both directed by Alfred Hitchcock, who at the time considered her his “favourite actress.” She had a lead role in a “lavish production” of  Quo Vadis  (1924), an Italian film directed by Gabriellino D’Annunzio and Georg Jacoby. Hall-Davis also appeared in a comedy short film made in the Lee DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process,  As We Lie  (1927), co-starring and directed by Miles Mander. Hall-Davis did not make the transition to talkies; in 1933 her “sharp career decline and health problems” prompted her to commit suicide by turning on