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A bottle of good champagne to anyone who can tell us who she is.
We really don’t know. We can say the following: she is not Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, Bessie Love, Lillian Gish, Edna Purviance, nor any silent movie actress most people will have heard of.
The picture is a still frame from a screen test she did for Sydney Chaplin in Hollywood. Sydney Chaplin (Charles’s half-brother) used to test a lot of girls. You can imagine, “I can get you into the movies, my dear...”
The date must have been roughly 1919, because the scene is lit with electric light (before then lighting consisted mainly of daylight diffused by bedsheets, or muslin). It can’t have been much later, because of the way she’s dressed and made up. By 1921 that look would have been inconceivable. There is no evidence that she ever made a movie.
So we’re offering a small reward to anyone can tell us - with some kind of proof - who she is. She might even just about still be alive, or recently died. Interesting thought, isn’t it?
Our colleague, Jonathan Geffner (Trillo & Suede), has a theory, but we wouldn’t take it too seriously.
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