Norma Talmadge
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Norma Talmadge started her career in one-reelers in 1909 for Vitagraph, playing bit roles as a young teenager starting. As she continually worked at the studio over the next several years, her parts grew until she frequently started as the leading lady. Her young promising career got a huge boost after her marriage to exhibitor Joseph M. Schenck. Together, they formed the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation in 1917 and began producing Star vechiles for Talmadge. Specializing in melodramas and woman’s pictures, Talmadge became one of the biggest stars of the 1920s, starting in hits such as Smilin’ Through, Secrets, The Lady, and Kiki. With her star already fading when the talkie revolution swept Hollywood, Talmadge made just two sound films before retiring from the screen. Although largely forgotten today, Talmadge was a pioneering producer and director who stood as one of the most popular and powerful women in early Hollywood.
Known for
Credits
Show People (1928)
as Self (uncredited)
The Lady (1925)
as Polly Pearl
Kiki (1926)
as Kiki
Fifty-Fifty (1916)
as Naomi Harmon
Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
as Yolande de Breux
Seeing Stars (1922)
as Self
Sawdust and Salome (1914)
as Mary - a Circus Rider
The Passion Flower (1921)
as Acacia, The Passion Flower
The Song of Love (1923)
as Noorma-hal
Yes or No (1920)
as Margaret Vane / Minnie Berry
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Within the Law (1923)
as Mary Turner
Love's Redemption (1921)
as Jennie Dobson (aka Ginger)
Martha's Vindication (1916)
as Martha
The Child Crusoes (1911)
Actor
A Lady and Her Maid (1913)
as Belinda
The Children in the House (1916)
as Cora
The Social Secretary (1916)
as Mayme
The Probation Wife (1919)
as Josephine Mowbray
The Vavasour Ball (1914)
as The Dramatist's Wife
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
as Madame Du Barry
The Dove (1927)
as Dolores
Smilin' Through (1922)
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
John Rance, Gentleman (1914)
as Lesbia Vane
A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
as (Mimi) Woman on the way to guillotine
Iron and Steel (1914)
Actor
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins (1912)
as Liza - Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Father's Hatband (1913)
as Doris Mason - the Daughter
The Way of a Woman (1919)
as Nancy Lee
Her Only Way (1918)
as Lucille Westbrook
Going Straight (1916)
as Grace Remington
The Woman Disputed (1928)
as Mary Ann Wagner
Fortunes of a Composer (1912)
as The Musician's Daughter
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
as Herself
The Branded Woman (1920)
as Ruth Sawyer
The Wonderful Thing (1921)
as Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs
The Eternal Flame (1922)
as Duchesse de Langeais
Graustark (1925)
as Princess Yetive
The Forbidden City (1918)
as San San / Toy
The Sign on the Door (1921)
as Ann Hunniwell / Mrs. 'Lafe' Regan
The Safety Curtain (1918)
as Puck
His Official Appointment (1912)
as The Secretary of State's Daughter
The Devil's Needle (1916)
as Renee Duprez
Just Show Folks (2022)
as Rosa
Panthea (1917)
as Panthea Romoff
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
as Virginia Vandergriff
Captain Barnacle's Waif (1912)
Actor
Secrets (1924)
as Mary Carlton
Camille (1927)
as Marguerite Gautier (Camille)
The Heart of Wetona (1919)
as Wetona
New York Nights (1929)
as Jill Deverne
The Moth (1917)
as Lucy Gillam
By Right of Purchase (1918)
as Margot Hughes
The Love of Chrysanthemum (1910)
Actor
He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (1913)
as The Wife
In Neighboring Kingdoms (1910)
Actor
She Loves and Lies (1920)
as Marie Callender, aka Marie Max and June Dayne
The Isle of Conquest (1919)
as Ethel Harmon
A Daughter of Two Worlds (1920)
as Jennie Malone
The Higher Mercy (1912)
as Alice
The Voice from the Minaret (1923)
as Lady Adrienne Carlyle
The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912)
as A Step-Daughter
A Dixie Mother (1910)
Actor
The Missing Links (1916)
as Myra Holburn
The Woman Gives (1920)
as Inga Sonderson
The Only Woman (1924)
as Helen Brinsley
Stenographer Troubles (1913)
as A Typist
De Luxe Annie (1918)
as Julie Kendal (De Luxe Annie II)
The Hero (1914)
as Maude
The New Moon (1919)
as Princess Marie Pavlovna
The Helpful (?) Sisterhood (1914)
as Mary
Omens and Oracles (1913)
as Belinda
The Law of Compensation (1917)
as Flora Graham / Ruth Graham
The Ghosts of Yesterday (1918)
as Ruth Graham / Jeanne La Fleur
Vampire of the Desert (1913)
as Ethel - Derrick's Fiancée
Under the Daisies (1913)
as Viola Martin
Wanted... a Grandmother (1912)
Actor
The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton (1912)
as Lovesick Maiden
The Meeting of the Ways (1912)
as The Maid
The Peacemaker (1914)
Actor
An Old Man's Love Story (1913)
as Ethel Marsham
Captivating Mary Carstairs (1915)
as Mary Carstairs
Getting Up a Practice (1913)
Actor
The Crown Prince's Double (1916)
as Shirley Rives
Poppy (1917)
as Poppy Destinn
Father's Hot Toddy (1912)
as First Daughter
The First Violin (1912)
Actor
A Fortune in a Teacup (1912)
as Mabel Brown - Walter's Sister
Bobby's Father (1912)
as Jane Ramsay - Bobby's Mother
The Secret of the Storm Country (1917)
as Tess Skinner
Solitaires (1913)
as Julia
The Lovely Hundred (1922)
as Herself
The Household Pest (—)
Actor