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SAS V381 pp 8.19 OUR FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS PAGE! To see more from this collection, CLICK ! AUCTION INFORMATION: Up for auction is the entire Constance Talmadge file from an avid movie memorabilia collector. Over 10,000 files filled with amazing treasures will be up for auction over the next few months! Many of these lots have incredibly rare clippings (could be the last of their kind!), magazine photos, and some lots have pressbooks and magazine covers, agency cards, cigarette trading cards, and occasionally full magazines and lobby cards! Please use the photo below to determine how full this file is. Everything in the photo is included and is loose (this is NOT a collage). Constance Talmadge ( April 19 , 1897 - November 23 , 1973 ) was a silent movie star born in Brooklyn , New York , USA , and was the sister of fellow actresses Norma Talmadge and Natalie Talmadge . 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 appeared as the 'Mountain Girl' of ancient Babylon in David W. Griffith 's Intolerance. She made 84 films from 1914 to 1929, but retired by choice when talkies came into fashion. Constance was born into a poor family. Her father, Fred Talmadge, was an alcoholic , and left them when she was still very young. Her mother, Peg, made a living by doing laundry. When a friend recommended that Peg use Norma as a model for title slides in flickers , which were shown in early nickelodeons , Peg decided to try it. This led the girls from one step to another, eventually spring-boarding all three sisters to stardom. She began making films in 1914, in a Vitagraph comedy short, In Bridal Attire (1914). Constance's first major role was as The Mountain Girl and Marguerite de Valois in D.W. Griffith 's masterpiece Intolerance (1916). Griffith re-edited Intolerance repeatedly after its initial release, and even shot new scenes long after it was in distribution. Grace Kingsley found Constance in her dressing room at the Fine Arts Studio, in Los Angeles , in the midst of making up for some new shots. "Did you really drive those galloping brutes of horses?" asked Miss Kingsley. "Indeed I did," stated Constance. "Two women sat behind me at the Auditorium the other night. They said, 'Of course she never really drove those horses herself. Somebody doubled for her.' Know what I did? I turned around and told them, 'I wish I could show you my knees, all black and blue even yet from being cracked up against the dashboard of that chariot!" So popular was her portrayal of the tomboyish "Mountain Girl", Griffith released in 1919 the Babylonian sequence from Intolerance as a new, separate film called The Fall of Babylon. He refilmed her death scene to allow for a happy ending. Her friend Anita Loos , who wrote many screenplays for her, appreciated her "humour and her irresponsible way of life". Pretty like her sisters, over the course of her career she appeared in more than eighty films, often in comedies, like A Pair of Silk Stockings (1918), Happiness a la Mode (1919), Romance and Arabella (1919), Wedding Bells (1921) and The Primitive Lover (1922). She, along with her sisters, was heavily billed during her early career. By her Blue Book of the Screen biography, from 1923, Constance was "5'5" tall, 120 lbs, with blonde hair and brown eyes, was an outdoor girl who loved activities" . When Constance was asked by a writer for Green Book Magazine what sort of stories she wanted to do in 1920 she said: "Although no less than sixty manuscripts are submitted to me every week, it is exceedingly difficult to get exactly the kind of comedy I especially want. I want comedies of manners, comedies that are funny because they delight one's sense of what is ridiculously human in the way of little everyday commonplace foibles and frailties âe" subtle comedies, not comedies o... read more

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