#Florence Annie Bridgwood

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2022: Tamara Baroni, attrice e modella italiana. Iniziò la propria carriera molto giovane come modella e indossatrice. Divenne Miss Cinema Emilia, e nel 1967 partecipò a Miss Italia dove vinse la fascia di Miss Eleganza. Nello stesso anno partecipò a Miss Mondo collocandosi nella top 15. Acquisita notorietà, iniziò a recitare in teatro e soprattutto nel cinema. Fece scalpore la sua relazione con…

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Florence Lawrence (born Florence Annie Bridgwood; January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938) was a Canadian-American stage performer and film actress. She is often referred to as the "first movie star", and was thought to be the first film actor to be named publicly until evidence published in 2019 indicated that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of the leading ladies in silent films from the Biograph Company. She appeared in almost 300 films for various motion picture companies throughout her career.

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Neg Sparkle #5

“Neg sparkle" is a kind of film damage manifesting as twinkling constellations on the image. This column is about a different kind of film damage, the mental havoc wrought by overindulgence in cinema, though I hold out the possibility that a human being so afflicted may be in some ways better than the normal kind.

Movie stars are created by an unholy synthesis of industry practices and audience response. The star themselves sometimes seems to have little to do with it. This is most clearly indicated by the story of the Biograph Girl.

Since, in the early twentieth century, films did not come with credits, merely an opening title featuring the company name for reasons of copyright protection, the actors were anonymous and it had not occurred to anybody in the business that promoting them would be useful. But it was easier to have a stable of performers under contract than to seek out new ones for every picture, especially if you were constantly grinding out pictures "like sausages," as I believe both Griffith and Chaplin complained.

So audiences got used to seeing the same faces, and they preferred some to others. They had no way to ascribe names to them, so they invented their own. The Biograph Girl was simply a leading lady under contract to Biograph, a major film company in the teens.

When the Biograph Girl left Biograph, she was signed by Carl Laemmle, later founder of Universal, who promised her a marquee. Her real name was Florence Annie Bridgwood but her professional name was even catchier than "the Biograph Girl": she went by Florence Lawrence. 

To exploit her fame and effect a name-change in the public mind, Laemmle staged a publicity stunt: he told the press that the Biograph Girl had been struck down by a streetcar and killed. The articles all made mention of the star's "real" name. Then he was able to debunk his own fake news, announcing that Florence Lawrence, formerly known as the Biograph Girl, was alive and well and working for him.

With its suggestion that death is good box office and enhances movie star glamour, the Florence Lawrence story has just the right mythic quality, so that it's disappointing to note that research has shown that she wasn't the very first movie actor to be billed: Max Linder preceded her. But his story has its morbid side too, though for him death comes at the end, where you'd expect it.

Ever since those heady, duplicitous days, producers have claimed the power to create stars (hubris), but the process is only begun on celluloid (or digital), and the real formation occurs when a mass of people breath together (conspiracy) in a dark room (in the Latin, camera). Or, if the star is created by television, we have many many small groups or individuals, breathing together in reaction to the star image, yet unaware of their co-conspirators, like terror cells.

It is fascinating and a little hopeful to see that, after more than a hundred years of practice, the success of an actor is still an uncertain thing, decided by anonymous masses for reasons they cannot explain and that nobody can predict or replicate.

by David Cairns

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Vida, pasión y muerte de Florence Lawrence, la actriz precursora de los intermitentes en los coches

Vida, pasión y muerte de Florence Lawrence, la actriz precursora de los intermitentes en los coches

Florence Lawrence, nacida Florence Annie Bridgwood, fue una actriz de cine de principios del siglo XX que vivía la pasión por los coches. Fue la primera gran estrella del cine, y a ella le debemos los primeros indicadores mecánicos de dirección, que más tarde darían paso a los intermitentes, y también los indicadores de freno de los coches. La vida de Florence Lawrence no fue sencilla. De hecho,…

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Florence Lawrence

Nata Florence Annie Bridgwood il 2 gennaio 1886 ad Hamilton in Ontario, attrice canadese all’epoca del cinema muto, naturalizzata statunitense. Era conosciuta come “The Biograph Girl”, nella sua carriera prese parte a duecentonovant’otto film tra il 1906 e il 1936, lavorando per diverse compagnie di produzione. Era figlia di un’attrice di vaudeville, Charlotte A. Bridgwood che, col nome di Lotta…

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2018: June Whitfield, Dama June Rosemary Whitfield, attrice britannica nota principalmente per diversi ruoli nella serie di film Carry On e nelle sitcom britanniche Terry and June e Absolutely Fabulous. Nel 1944 si laurea presso la Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Nel 1955 sposò Timothy John Aitchinson e nel 1960 nacque la loro unica figlia, Suzy, anch’ella un’attrice. Dal 2017 era ospite in una…

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2018: Conte Umberto Marzotto, imprenditore, terzo figlio del conte Gaetano jr e fratello di Pietro e padre di Matteo.  (n. 1926) Da sinistra Paolo, Giannino (scomparso nel 2012), Laura, Umberto (morto il 28 dicembre 2018), Vittorio (morto nel ’99), Italia (scomparsa nel 2000) e Pietro Marzotto (morto il 26 aprile 2018) 2016: Debbie Reynolds, nome d’arte di Mary Frances Reynolds, attrice, cantante…

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2016: Debbie Reynolds, nome d’arte di Mary Frances Reynolds, attrice, cantante e ballerina statunitense. Per tutti gli anni cinquanta e per quasi tutto il decennio successivo sarà la vivace interprete di numerosi film, quasi sempre commedie, e spesso affiancata da celebri attori. Dagli anni settanta l’attrice continua a dedicarsi soprattutto alla televisione: tra i suoi ruoli più importanti…