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American film star Florence Turner is Alone in London in this 4-reel British mystery. Turner goes against the grain of her established screen image by playing a meaty character role as a woman inexorably involved in crime. Henry Edwards co-stars as one of the "good guys," while Edward Lingard represents the "bad" contingent. Ms. Turner, the onetime "Vitagraph Girl," was herself the producer of Alone in London; it was the last in a successful series of British productions financed by Ms. Turner in conjunction with England's pioneer filmmaker Cecil M. Hepworth. The director was Larry Trimble, Turner's lifelong friend. Alone in London was based on a play by Harriet Jay and Robert Buchanan, which presumably ran longer than the film's allotted 48 minutes.
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At age three Florence Turner began appearing in stage productions, and was already a veteran actress when she joined Vitagraph at age 21; the year was 1906 and the dawn of popular cinema was at hand. Credited only as the Vitagraph Girl, she became one of the screen's first stars. In 1913, she went to England with Larry Trimble, her frequent director and long-time friend; they performed together in London music halls and formed Turner Films, their own production company. Turner sometimes co-wrote and/or directed her own films. From 1916-20 she lived in the U.S.; from 1920-24 in England; and after 1924 in Hollywood. However, her popularity had greatly decreased as the popularity of films boomed; she went on to play secondary roles and eventually had to beg for work.
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In this clip, the film star Florence Turner plays Daisy Doodad in a silent film made in 1914. Daisy and her husband enter a face-pulling competition, but because of a toothache Daisy has to pull out. But she is sure she is the better face puller!
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From 1925 to 1929 Florence lived in Europe, studying under Professor Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. The Impressionist painter Lucien Pissarro, who noticed her copying in the Tate gallery, gave her one of his landscapes, which influenced the subject and style of her painting, 'Le Brusc, South of France'. Back in Sydney, she reputedly treasured her studios more than her homes and lent paintings from her collection to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales. She had many friends connected with that institution, among them G. V. F. Mann whose portrait she painted, (Sir) James McGregor, and B. J. Waterhouse who designed her house, Menlo, at Bellevue Hill. Having exhibited a few pictures in the early 1930s, she began to suffer incipient blindness in 1939.
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Robert Edward Turner III was born on November 19, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the first child of Ed and Florence Turner. After World War II (1939-45), Mr. Turner started a company that owned billboards. Turner Advertising became the dominant billboard company in the Southeast, providing the Turners a solid income. Ted spent most of his childhood away from his parents, first living with his grandparents while his father served in the war, then attending a military school in Georgia. Still, the boy found time to help out at the family business, mowing the grass around the poles that supported the billboards.
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In 1910 Trimble, Turner, Jean and a small film crew spent several weeks shooting at Cape Shore near Portland, Maine. All of the films on record starred "the Vitagraph Girl" and "the Vitagraph Dog" in a series of one and two- reelers such as JEAN AND THE CALICO DOLL, JEAN AND THE WAIF, and JEAN GOES FISHING.
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