Thursday, May 7, 2020

What Happened to Yesterday's Movie Stars (1916 Edition)

Today it has become common for people to view 1916 as a time when moving pictures were still in their infancy. However movies were not new at this time, they had been around for a multiple decades and film fans had already seen some of their favorite stars come and go. This can be seen in the following 1916 article from Picture-Play Magazine looking back at the screen stars who had come and gone.

If you have trouble reading the following pages click on them and use your touch screen to zoom in.




























-Michael J. Ruhland

1 comment:

  1. Ah, obscurity!
    Yale Boss struck me as an unusual name, so I looked him up. At age 17, he was a bookkeeper for the Knickerbocker Ice Co. in Manhattan and then for a pencil company. He tried for a comeback in 1923. By 30, he was living in Augusta, Georgia where he was a machinist at a power plant. That's where he died in 1977. He had an older sister who was a dancer.

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