page_title: Sylvia Breamer
section_title: Silent screen actress
hierarchical_section_title: Sylvia Breamer / Silent screen actress
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context_page_description: Sylvia Poppy Bremer, known professionally as Sylvia Breamer, was an Australian actress who appeared in American silent motion pictures beginning in 1917.
context_section_description: Within a few months of arriving in the US, Breamer had appeared on stage in Boston and been tested by Thomas H. Ince.
  Her first movie for Ince was The Pinch Hitter, released in April 1917, where she took the leading female role next to Charles Ray.  In 1918, she changed the spelling of her surname to Breamer, apparently to sound less German. After Ince left the Triangle Film Corporation, she made numerous films for a variety of producers, including Ince and J. Stuart Blackton and opposite leading men including William S. Hart, Will Rogers, John Gilbert, Frank Mayo and Wallace Beery. Her film output was significant - she had appeared in forty films by 1924 and was an established and bankable star. In 1917 Ince had "predicted a future for Sylvia Breamer equally brilliant to that of his first Australian acquisition, Enid Bennett; and the initial assessment was, as the Lone Hand put it, that she "surpassed Bennett as actress by a long way." Breamer's final leading role in a film was in Lightning Reporter, in 1926, opposite Johnnie Walker. When no further film roles came her way she returned to the stage, appearing in a number of plays in 1926-30. 
  In the early 1930s she famously criticized life and work in Hollywood. She reportedly said she "now loathes pictures and everything Hollywood means. There can be no real friendship in Hollywood - nothing but jealousy and sham." 
  She had one minor role in a talkie, a supporting part in the 1936 Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews vehicle Too Many Parents.
caption: Sylvia Breamer in Photoplay, 1918.
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