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Trio Ausonia (by Truus, Bob & Jan too!)
Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and would become famous as an action and adventure film hero or forzuto. Before acting in film, Guaita did tableaux vivants of famous paintings and sculptures and knew triumphant successes not only in Italy but all over Europe. he did so as member of the Trio Ausonia, ‘Gladiators of the Twentieth Century’,
December 28 1938: Florence Lawrence, silent-film star and inventor of mechanical turn signal commits suicide in her Beverly Hills home.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/silent-film-star-and-inventor-of-mechanical-turn-signal-dies
The World of Suzie Wong
Tina Louise
Victor McLaglen (by Truus, Bob & Jan too!)
Belgian collector’s card by Nels Bromorite for Kwatta. Photo: RKO.
Victor McLaglen (1886 – 1959) was a Scottish boxer and World War I veteran who became a successful film actor. He started in British silent films, and later became a popular character actor in Hollywood, with a particular knack for playing drunks.
(via Alex Karras, N.F.L. Lineman and Actor, Dies at 77 - NYTimes.com)
Alex Karras, a fierce and relentless All-Pro lineman for the Detroit Lions whose irrepressible character frequently placed him at odds with football’s authorities but led to a second career as an actor on television and in the movies, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 77…
Gwili Andre with Charles Bickford in No Other Woman.
James Stewart
Richard Arlen in “The Man I Love” (1929).
