page_title: Marion Leonard
section_title: Marriage and switch to Universal Pictures
hierarchical_section_title: Marion Leonard / Marriage and switch to Universal Pictures
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: movingpicturenew04unse (find matches) Title: Moving Picture News (1911) Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Subjects: motion pictures Publisher: Cinematograph Publishing Company Contributing Library: Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section Digitizing Sponsor: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ell go home at once, for Im only an artstudent without a scrap of experience, said the girl start-ing to rise. Oh, dont give up so easily; fake some experience,laughed the fair haired woman. Say you have been withWilliams and Kelly of Chicago; they keep a number ofstock companies traveling in the Middle West. And say you took such parts as Ill tell you what. Let me talk for you this time, and Ill show you how to sling it off. The art student expressed her gratitude and the actressoffered the information that she had been with Williamsand Kelly herself, that this was her first trip East, that shewas going to work for the pictures while securing her firstBroadway booking and that she had put on her glad ragsfor this interview, as moving picture actors had to supplytheir own costumes, and it went far with a manager if awoman looked as though she possessed a lot of prettyclothes. The heart of the art student sank. Nothing in her ward-robe could deserve the title of glad rags when compared Text Appearing After Image: DER KINEMATOGRAPH, DUSSELDORF The leading Organ for the Uotlon Flctnre Trade In Germany, Special Supplement for Talking Machines, &amp;cPublished every Wednesday. Annual Subscription 11/- Post Free.Advertisements (4 columns to page); 2s. 6d. per inch. SituationaWanted, 134d. per line.Reduced Price for a Series of Insertions.Publisher—Ed. LINTZ. Chief Editor—EMIL PERLMANN. NORDISK FILM TIDNING The first trade paper in Scandinavia.Best advertising medium in North Europe.Subscription 6 shillings.Sample copy free upon request Editor, A. SEABTTBY, Post Boz 163, Stockholm, Sweden. 14 THE MOVING PICTURE NEWS with the smart attire of her companion. When the man-ager arrived she sat silent while the actress talked, gen-erously introducing her as a friend and giving an accountof her histrionic abilities that made the art student nervous. And she has a lot of glad rags at home, though shestoo sensible to wear them on elevated trains, the actressended. The manager glanced at the art student a Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Marion Leonard was an American stage actress who became one of the first motion picture celebrities in the early years of the silent film era.
context_section_description: While working for Biograph, Leonard met screenwriter/director Stanner E.V. Taylor and a personal relationship developed that led to marriage. The two would eventually leave Biograph to make films together for Universal Pictures and other studios and sometimes through their own production company.
  In 1915, after appearing in more than one hundred and fifty films, Marion Leonard retired from film but did return eleven years later at age forty-five for one final appearance in a 1926 Mack Sennett comedy.
  Marion Leonard died in 1956 at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.
caption: Engagement illustration announcement from 1911 published in Motion Picture News
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