Speeding Sweethearts Endnotes

NOTES



1. Gloria Swanson, Swanson on Swanson (New York: Random House, 1980), pp. 56-7

2. The director and comedian later known as Charley Chase.

3. Swanson, pp.67-8

4. Ibid., p. 68

5. Ibid., p. 69

6. Virginia Scharff, Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (New York: Free Press, 1991), p. 13

7. Scharff, p. 68

8. Ibid., p. 32

9. Ibid., pp. 87-8

10. Julian Pettifer and Nigel Turner, Automania: Man and the Motor Car (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1984), p. 243

11. Review of New Films, The New York Dramatic Mirror, October 24, 1908

12. Booton Herndon, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977), p. 121

13. The Biograph Bulletin quoted in Robert M. Henderson, D. W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970), p. 134

14. Kevin Brownlow, The Parade's Gone By (New York: Ballantine Books, 1968), p. 147

15. Frederick James Smith, "Unspoiled by Fame is Mary Pickford," The New York Dramatic Mirror, March 19, 1913. The interview has also been reprinted in its entirety in Taylorology 58 (http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/).

16. Ibid.

17. Eugene Zukor, Adolph's son

18. W. E. Wing, "Along the Pacific Coast," The New York Dramatic Mirror, June 16, 1915

19. Mary Pickford, Answers to Correspondents, Daily Talks, in The Detroit News, December 11, 1915

20. William Thomas Sherman, Mabel Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films (Seattle: Cinema Books, 1994), p. 11

21. "The Rivals," Movie Pictorial, June 13, 1914

22. Wil Rex, "Behind the Scenes with Fatty and Mabel," Picture Play, April 1916, reprinted in Sherman, p. 35

23. Ibid.

24. Betty Harper Fussell, Mabel (New Haven and New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1982), p. 96

25. Sam Peeples, "Madcap: The Story of Mabel Normand, Part I," Classic Film Collector, No. 26, Winter 1970, p. 9

26. Motography, May 20, 1916, reprinted in Sherman, p. 39

27. Rob Edelman, review of Mabel at the Wheel in Magill's Survey of Cinema, Silent Films, Vol. II (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1982)

28. Mabel Condon, "The Real Perils of Pauline,'" Photoplay Magazine, October, 1914, p. 63

29. Review of The President's Special, The New York Dramatic Mirror, August 5, 1914

30. Ally Acker, Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present (New York: Frederick Unger, 1991), p. 253

31. Robert Sklar, Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies (New York: Random House, 1975), p. 89

32. Ben Singer, "Female Power in the Serial-Queen Melodrama: The Etiology of an Anomaly," in Richard Abel (ed.), Silent Film (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996), p. 174

33. "Helen's Daring 'Stunt,' The New York Dramatic Mirror, June 9, 1917

34. Patricia King Hanson, ed., The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1911-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988)

35. Erik Barnouw, "The Sintzenich Diaries," in Iris Newsom (ed.), Wonderful Inventions: Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound at the Library of Congress, (Washington, D.C.: The Library of Congress, 1985), p. 23

36. Charles K. Field, "On the New Rialto: 'Close-up Shots' at Film Stars," S unset Magazine, January, 1916, p. 46

37. Hanson, ed.

38. "Gossip of the Studios," The New York Dramatic Mirror, February 11, 1914

39. "About Famous Players," The New York Dramatic Mirror, July 7, 1917

40. "Snapshots," The New York Dramatic Mirror, September 16, 1916

41. Quoted in Acker, p. 162

42. K. Owen, "The Girl on the Cover," Photoplay Magazine, April, 1915, p. 91

43. "Movie Star Autoist: Bessie Eyton Drives Paige Car,'" The San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 1915

44. Condon, op cit., p. 63

45. "Natural Backdrop," http://www.lightlink.com/jwrogers/thsept.htm, in "Ithaca's Silent Movie History," http://www.lightlink.com/jwrogers/wharton.htm

46. George Vaux Bacon, "The Girl on the Cover; or from Ptolemy to Pearl White in a Manhattan Motor Car," Photoplay Magazine, January, 1916, p. 53

47. Ibid., pp. 53-4.

48. Ibid., pp. 54-5

49. Ibid., p. 56

50. A reference to a ring Pearl was wearing (see Bacon, pp. 52-3)

51. Bacon, p. 57 (Pearl's autobiography, Just Me, was published in 1919.)

52. The Dramatic Mirror, February 8, 1919

53. Alma Talley, "The Pearl Her Director Knows," Movie Weekly, August 9, 1924, p. 10

54. Allen Corliss, "Motoring with Mae," Photoplay Magazine, March, 1917, pp. 29-31

55. "Ormi Hawley," http://www.mc3.edu/gen/faculty/jeckhard/ormi.htm, in "The King of the Movies: Film Pioneer, Siegmund Lubin," http://www.mc3.edu/gen/faculty/jeckhard/lubin.htm

56. Henry A. Keller, "Sunshine Mary Anderson," Picture Play, September, 1916, p. 107

57. Ibid., p. 108

58. Mabel Condon, "Pacific Coast News," The New York Dramatic Mirror, August 26, 1916

59. August 27, 1920 newspaper interview with Florence Lawrence, courtesy of Kelly Brown

60. Green Book Magazine, April, 1914, p. 844, courtesy of Kelly Brown

61. August 27, 1920 Florence Lawrence interview (Coincidentally, this interview was published just one day after the 19th Amendment establishing woman suffrage became law.)

62. Charles K. Field, "A Little Mother of the Movies: Screening the Screen-Struck Girl from the Perils of the New Rialto," Sunset Magazine, September, 1916, pp. 32-3

63. Ibid., p. 33

64. "Notes Written on the Screen," The New York Times, March 26, 1916

65. The New York Dramatic Mirror, September 1, 1915, p. 29

66. "Written on the Screen," The New York Times, September 19, 1915

67. Field, op cit., p. 33

68. Ibid., p. 33, pp. 67-8

69. He later changed his name to Samuel Goldwyn.

70. The New York Dramatic Mirror, October 30, 1915, p. 25

71. Condon, The New York Dramatic Mirror, August 26, 1916

72. "Notes Written on the Screen," The New York Times, March 26, 1916

73. Field, op. cit., p. 33

74. Ibid., pp. 68-9

75. The Los Angeles Herald, September 5, 1918, reprinted in Taylorology 33: "The Life and Death of Olive Thomas," http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/

76. Mabel Condon, The New York Dramatic Mirror, September 22, 1917

77. "Florence La Badie," http://www.teleport.com/~tco/people/labadief.htm, in "Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc.," http://www.teleport.com/~tco/index.html

78. A. M. Rochlen, Interview with Charlotte Shelby, The Los Angeles Examiner, December 26, 1929, reprinted in Taylorology 6, http://www.angelfire.com/az/Taylorology/

79. Nell Shipman, The Silent Screen and My Talking Heart, Tom Trusky (ed.), (Boise, Idaho: Boise State University, 1987), p. 88

80. Hanson, op. cit., p. 944
81. Quoted in "The Doctors' House Victorian Museum Presents the Nell Shipman Exhibit," http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/doctors_house/nell/Page1.html
82. Shipman, op. cit.

83. Nell Shipman's pet bear

84. Shipman, p. 87-8

85. Ibid., p. 89

86. Jill Allgood, Bebe and Ben (London: Robert Hale & Company, 1975), pp. 51-2

87. Ibid., p. 53

88. Ibid., p. 56

89. Ibid., pp. 54-6

90. Ibid., p. 57

91. David A. Yallop, The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976)

92. Allgood, p. 61

93. Muhmoud Hussein, "Memory Lane," The Unesco Courier, October, 1990, p. 18

AA. Harrison Haskins, "A Star Who Really Did Her Bit," Motion Picture Classic, June, 1919, p. 26, p. 80.

My thanks to Bruce Long, editor of Taylorology; Cari Beauchamp, author of Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood; and Kelly Brown, author of a forthcoming biography of Florence Lawrence; for their generosity in providing me with some of the original material used in this article.

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