Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-02-06
SALARIES OF
MOVIE STARS
Are Not What They Are Sup.
posed To Be By Some
People.


Witt the moving picture bushes
fsSnri@g sixth among the great indu:
tries "a the United States the oppor
Gnmities for making money in it ar
more discussed than the opportuni
g5es IN almost any other field of en-
edeavar.
Ssn as in everything connected
with bhe theatre, the financial oppor
rumbes for the man or woman with
out capitalize movie actor or act
ress-are greatly exaggerated. It'll
true that several motion picture
manufacturers who started with very
little sne millionaires several times
over, but the salaries of film actors
are not anywhere as large as they
are popularly supposed to be, says a
New York paper.
Only the other day it was printed
IN dsiy newspapers that Miss Mary
Pickford had refused a $50, 000-a.
" ar offer from film company. The
reason for her refusal, it was stated,
vzas the fact that she was satisfied
with her present salary of 5000 900
a year with the Famous Players Film
SO.
Miss Pickford is without question
the highest-priced film star in the
United States. She receives twice
as much -probably three times as
inuch-as any other film star in the
country. But she does not receive
$500, 900 a year. She receives 1000
a week for fifty-twO weeks of the
gear, and at that is in class by her.
self. While it is true that few, if
any, actors or actresses in the
Legitimate" earn more than her
ANNUAL stipend. it should be remem
5ered that her salary is absolutely
unique in the entire motion picture
Industry.
John Bunny, whose face is per-
haps the best known visage in the
world. received $500 week and
royalty on the films in which he ap.
peared. which brought hi earnings
mp to 500 weekly, before he desert.
ed the movies for the vaudeville
stage few months ago.
With the exception of Mary Pick
ford. there is no film star in Amer
sea who receives more than $3.50 a
week as salary. Yet there are dozens
of legitimate and vaudeville stars
who receive that amount. Recog
nized fi!m favorites like Clara Kim
ball Young. Mary Fuller, Florence
Lawrence, Blanche Sweet, Norma
Phillips, Anita Stewart and Ruth
StOnehouse receive from $500 to
$500 week. Whenit comes to male
tilm stars. their salaries are consid.
erably less From $500 to $500
weekly is the salary for film favor
ties like King Baggott, Francis Y.
:Bushman. Arthur J hnston, Maurice
Costello. J. Warren Kerrigan and
Carlyle Blackwe l.
As an example of salaries paid to
persons in the public eye, there is
the $5O0-a week salary of Annette
Kellerman. while the film called
'Neptune's Daughter" was being
made. Miss Kellerman also received
an interest in the film which she
sater disposed of for $4,000. Such
a well-known actor as George Faw-
cett received $1,000 to go to Cali
fornia to make one picture. Jane
Cowl, William and Dustin Farnum,
William Courtleigh, John Barrymore,
Macklyn Arbuckle and dozens of 9TH
er legitimate. players receive less
Ghan 81 .0U0 for each feature film in
which they appear. At the present
time. moreover, the tendency is to
ward cuts in salaries.
The really big money that has
been and is being made in the mo-
ton picture industry aside from
Mary Pickford's remarkable salary
is that of the manufacturers and
owners of big blocks of stock in film
companies. Some of the technical
directors receive large emoluments
because. in addition to their big sal.
aries. they receive royalties on the
films manufactured or have holdings