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
The Wonderful Thing (1921)
as Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs
Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
as Yolande de Breux
Within the Law (1923)
as Mary Turner
His Official Appointment (1912)
as The Secretary of State's Daughter
Love's Redemption (1921)
as Jennie Dobson (aka Ginger)
The Passion Flower (1921)
as Acacia, The Passion Flower
Fifty-Fifty (1916)
as Naomi Harmon
The Song of Love (1923)
as Noorma-hal
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins (1912)
as Liza - Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
John Rance, Gentleman (1914)
as Lesbia Vane
Fortunes of a Composer (1912)
as The Musician's Daughter
The Battle Cry of Peace (1915)
as Virginia Vandergriff
Martha's Vindication (1916)
as Martha
Father's Hot Toddy (1912)
as First Daughter
Bobby's Father (1912)
as Jane Ramsay - Bobby's Mother
The Social Secretary (1916)
as Mayme
Sawdust and Salome (1914)
as Mary - a Circus Rider
Yes or No (1920)
as Margaret Vane / Minnie Berry
Seeing Stars (1922)
as Self
The Dove (1927)
as Dolores
Iron and Steel (1914)
Actor
The Love of Chrysanthemum (1910)
Actor
Father's Hatband (1913)
as Doris Mason - the Daughter
Just Show Folks (2022)
as Rosa
A Tale of Two Cities (1911)
as (Mimi) Woman on the way to guillotine
Du Barry, Woman of Passion (1930)
as Madame Du Barry
Camille (1927)
as Marguerite Gautier (Camille)
Captain Barnacle's Waif (1912)
Actor
The Vavasour Ball (1914)
as The Dramatist's Wife
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Wanted... a Grandmother (1912)
Actor
The Eternal Flame (1922)
as Duchesse de Langeais
The Devil's Needle (1916)
as Renee Duprez
The Children in the House (1916)
as Cora
A Lady and Her Maid (1913)
as Belinda
Panthea (1917)
as Panthea Romoff
The Secret of the Storm Country (1917)
as Tess Skinner
The Sign on the Door (1921)
as Ann Hunniwell / Mrs. 'Lafe' Regan
In Neighboring Kingdoms (1910)
Actor
New York Nights (1929)
as Jill Deverne
The Heart of Wetona (1919)
as Wetona
The Way of a Woman (1919)
as Nancy Lee
The Woman Disputed (1928)
as Mary Ann Wagner
The Child Crusoes (1911)
Actor
The Meeting of the Ways (1912)
as The Maid
Secrets (1924)
as Mary Carlton
Stenographer Troubles (1913)
as A Typist
The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton (1912)
as Lovesick Maiden
The Moth (1917)
as Lucy Gillam
The Troublesome Step-Daughters (1912)
as A Step-Daughter
The Forbidden City (1918)
as San San / Toy
The Woman Gives (1920)
as Inga Sonderson
Smilin' Through (1922)
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
The Missing Links (1916)
as Myra Holburn
The Peacemaker (1914)
Actor
She Loves and Lies (1920)
as Marie Callender, aka Marie Max and June Dayne
Graustark (1925)
as Princess Yetive
Going Straight (1916)
as Grace Remington
The Voice from the Minaret (1923)
as Lady Adrienne Carlyle
The Safety Curtain (1918)
as Puck
The Isle of Conquest (1919)
as Ethel Harmon
A Daughter of Two Worlds (1920)
as Jennie Malone
The Branded Woman (1920)
as Ruth Sawyer
Her Only Way (1918)
as Lucille Westbrook
The Only Woman (1924)
as Helen Brinsley
An Old Man's Love Story (1913)
as Ethel Marsham
De Luxe Annie (1918)
as Julie Kendal (De Luxe Annie II)
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
as Herself
The Helpful (?) Sisterhood (1914)
as Mary
Captivating Mary Carstairs (1915)
as Mary Carstairs
The Probation Wife (1919)
as Josephine Mowbray
The Crown Prince's Double (1916)
as Shirley Rives
Getting Up a Practice (1913)
Actor
Vampire of the Desert (1913)
as Ethel - Derrick's Fiancée
The Law of Compensation (1917)
as Flora Graham / Ruth Graham
A Dixie Mother (1910)
Actor
He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law (1913)
as The Wife
The Hero (1914)
as Maude
The New Moon (1919)
as Princess Marie Pavlovna
By Right of Purchase (1918)
as Margot Hughes
The Higher Mercy (1912)
as Alice
A Fortune in a Teacup (1912)
as Mabel Brown - Walter's Sister
Poppy (1917)
as Poppy Destinn
Under the Daisies (1913)
as Viola Martin
Omens and Oracles (1913)
as Belinda
The Ghosts of Yesterday (1918)
as Ruth Graham / Jeanne La Fleur
The First Violin (1912)
Actor
The Household Pest (—)
Actor
The Lovely Hundred (1922)
as Herself
Solitaires (1913)
as Julia