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Constance Talmadge
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Constance Talmadge was the youngest of three sisters, all of whom went into films. She was born April 19, 1899, in Jersey City, NJ, and moved with her family to New York City where she attended public school. Her mother, Peg, had always pushed the daughters toward acting, and Constance got her break at Vitagraph where older sister, Norma, was an established actress. She did bit parts for awhile and then had her first lead in "Buddy's First Call" in 1914. She made several comedies for the company until mid-1915 when the family moved to California. She worked for two years at Fine Arts-Triangle where she got her first real notice as the Mountain Girl in "Intolerance" (1916).
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The lure of Constance Talmadge and the forty-piece orchestra was a secondary inspiration to the great crowds. They came hurrying from all points of the compass for a look at the "marvelous and amazing moving-picture palace." Movie crowds have grown a trifle blase in the matter of marble exteriors, chiseled foyers, lighting effects and luxurious decorations. But the Tivoli gave them something new.
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N[O]rma and Constance Talmadge arrived at Dover on November 7th. By now the ‘Lovely Hundred’ had been selected and the photographs of all of them printed in the Daily Sketch. As had happened when Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford came to Britain in 1920, and Charlie Chaplin in 1921, Britain went wild at the sight of Hollywood glamour, and the Talmadges were mobbed by crowds on their arrival in London. But although most of the country had greeted the idea of the contest and a real British film star with enthusiasm, there were some dissenting voices. The Film Renter viewed the whole affair with some amusement, and having described the Talmadge’s arrival at Dover - noting that their entourage included such figures as “Susie, the mulatto maid” and Esmerelda, Norma Talmadge’s pet tortoise - the paper denounced the whole stunt as a “cheap circus affair” and expressed surprise at Hollywood stooping so low:
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Constance Talmadge dominates this comedy in her usual, mischievous manner. She's Georgiana Chadbourne, a young widow. Her dead husband was such a straight arrow that it bored her, and after a proper enough mourning period, she goes out in search of adventure. She gets in trouble for picking flowers in Central Park, but is rescued by Jack Garrison (Rockcliffe Fellows), who she mistakes for an artistic, bohemian type of character. To her frustration, she discovers he is as good as her husband was. Since he has already won her heart, she has no choice but to make a bad guy out of him. When she discovers that Garrison is friends with her brother, she hatches her plot.
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Constance Talmadge, one of Hollywood's most popular comediennes, was a beautiful girl with a great sense of humor who gained the pinnacle of stardom despite inexperience. She achieved film immortality as the ‘Mountain Girl’ of ancient Babylon in D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance. She made 84 films from 1914 to 1929, and when sound technology arrested the industry, had the courage to end her film career, turning down offers from the studios that profited from her efforts and walked away from their cameras forever.
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By now Talmadge was installed in Hollywood and part of the film establishment. She and Schenck remained married until 1927, but he continued to advise her on business matters after the divorce. She acted with Roland in a Mexican story, The Dove, and her last silent film was the unhappy The Woman Disputed, directed by Henry King, and mangled by front office politics. It was loosely based on de Maupassant's Boule de Suif.
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