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21 Mar 1920 – Wanda Hawley In the Film Firmament

Posted on 21/03/2025 by 1926Rudy

Wanda Hawley has become a star. The Realart Pictures Corporation has decided to launch her in her own pictures, with her own name printed above the name of her production, in larger letters, and that sort of thing. To her, naturally this is important, and to some others it maybe impressive-but, after all, a star by any other name would shine as brightly, and Miss Hawley, so far as shining goes, has been a star for some time, ever since 1918, in fact, when, after some experience with Fox and select forces, she became Douglas Fairbanks heroine in “Mr. Fixit”. From this picture she went to Cecil B. De Mille, who featured her in “Old Wives for New” and “We Can’t Have Everything.” She was with William S. Hart “The Border Wireless” and with Rudolph Valentino “Virtuous Sinners” and with Bryant Washburn in “The Way of a Man with a Maid”. In the Spring of 1919, she was on Broadway in 2 pictures. She was leading woman for Wallace Reid in “You’re Fired” The Lottery Man” “Double Speed,” and Robert Warwick in “Secret Service,” “Told in the Hills” and “The Tree of Knowledge.” She had the role of Beauty in “Every Woman” and was most recently seen again on Broadway with Bryant Washburn in “Six Best Cellars.” Invariably, Miss Hawley has been such a heroine as to make whatever her hero might do for her seem reasonable, or, at least, justifiable. She would probably be classed as an ingénue, but that only shows how inadequate in description are simple classifications, for while she is usually ‘artless, ingenuous and innocent’ as ingénues are suppose to be, she is also intelligent, genuine and substantial which ingénues seldom are. She smiles, but does not simper. She doesn’t become silly trying to be cute, and she succeeds in being pleasant without appearing unnatural. The records assert that Miss Hawley was born in 1897, and she looks it. According to one record, her birthplace was Seattle. But another has it she was born in Scranton, PA, and moved to Seattle as a child. At any rate, she was educated first in Seattle and then in Brooklyn, where she studied music. It is said that she is an accomplished pianist and was successful as a singer until throat trouble compelled her to give up the concert stage, from which she went to the screen.

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1922 – Studio Backlot Gossip

Posted on 17/02/2022 by 1926Rudy

The Young Rajah,” Rodolph Valentino’s new Paramount picture which Philip E. Rosen is directing, has many fascinating situations and gives the athletic star a chance to show his metal. Wanda Hawley is the pretty leading woman and her co-star Rudolph Valentino is spending all his spare time lately with boxing gloves, fencing foils and a medicine ball—that is, whenever he isn’t riding horseback.

Mr. Rodolph Valentino is back at work on “The Young Rajah,” with Philip Rosen at the megaphone. The adaptation is by June Mathis. The story starts with a mysterious scene and works up to a dramatic climax which it would be hard to excel.

Baron James H. deRothschild, eldest son of the famous French family of financiers, was a guest at our West Coast Studio recently and under the escort of General Manager Victor H. Clarke, Paul Iribe, Fred Kley, Rodolph Valentino, and Adam Hull Shirk, inspected with keen insight and a ready comprehension the intricate W’orkings of the big plant where our pictures are made.

Sensational to the limit are said to be the scenes which Mr. Valentino does sword and cape play before the real fighting bulls. He was trained for the dangerous business by Rafael Palomar, famous Spanish matador, and became highly proficient in the art.

Rodolph goes to San Francisco May 5th to appear at the mammoth benefit to be given by the Mayor’s Citizen Committee to raise funds to help entertain the disabled veterans at the Convention June 26-30 of the Disabled American Veterans of the first World War. Silent Film Star Rodolph Valentino will be escorted by a squadron of cavalry and prominent officials to the hotel and will be royally welcomed.

When Valentino and Naldi were working before the camera, the entire personnel unconsciously drew around them and watched with awe the wonderful acting of this pair. Can you see Mr. Valentino doing a Spanish dance with Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee playing the beautiful Spanish wife? This production was directed by Fred Nihlo, the one and same man who directed “The Three Musketeers”-—that alone should be enough for any exhibitor to know, that together with this marvelous story, under the guiding hand of this capable director and with Rodolph, Nita Naldi and Lila Lee, it will do a record-breaking business at his box-office.