Norma Talmadge
Birthday: 1894-05-26
Place of Birth: Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Biography: 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.
Movies
Show People
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic s...
View Movie
The Lovely Hundred
Miss Norma and Miss Constance Talmadge among the girls one of whom they are to select as the New Bri...
View Movie
Camille
Based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils....
View Movie
Vampire of the Desert
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the ...
View Movie
The Dove
Norma Talmadge plays a Mexican saloon singer, known as 'The Dove.' She is romanced by a young caball...
View Movie
The Devil's Needle
Renee is a French artist's model who uses morphine as an escape from the dull reality of her life. S...
View Movie
New York Nights
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broad...
View Movie
The Lady
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherite...
View Movie
Within the Law
When Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take...
View Movie
Secrets
An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England whe...
View Movie
The Helpful (?) Sisterhood
Mary is forced into shoplifting to keep up with her rich sorority sisters....
View Movie
Going Straight
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. O...
View Movie
The Forbidden City
The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. The...
View Movie
The Child Crusoes
Jack, a little orphan, is anxious to become a sailor, and although Captain Rhines refuses to take hi...
View Movie
The Meeting of the Ways
Tom and Dick are brothers and are being educated at the same college. Tom is a studious fellow and g...
View Movie
The Troublesome Step-Daughters
A widower with four grown daughters remarries and brings his new wife home to meet them. The girls s...
View Movie
Wanted... a Grandmother
Kitty Mallory, the young actress, finds herself in straightened circumstances. Looking for the immed...
View Movie
Bobby's Father
Dick Ramsay is a "cracksman" and burglar. His wife, Jane, is a good woman and tries to persuade her ...
View Movie
A Tale of Two Cities
An early film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent ...
View Movie
The Hero
Very pretty, very attractive, very young; her name is Maude and she has a beau. He is very fat. Maud...
View Movie
The First Violin
Old Von Shultz, the first violin, finds as he grows older a longing for companionship. Hurrying from...
View Movie
A Fortune in a Teacup
Tea is served during an afternoon visit of Sybil with her friend Mabel Brown. Sybil begs Mabel to te...
View Movie
Father's Hot Toddy
Tired of living alone with his two motherless daughters. Jones decides to take unto himself a wife. ...
View Movie
The Higher Mercy
No matter how absorbed with affairs of state, Abraham Lincoln was always ready to give audience to h...
View Movie
A Lady and Her Maid
The photographer sends miss Ophelia a dozen photographs of her in different poses. Selecting the bes...
View Movie
Ashes of Vengeance
This historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and...
View Movie
Getting Up a Practice
Becoming impatient waiting for patients, young Doctor Bob Lyons is about discouraged. To add to his ...
View Movie
He Fell in Love with His Mother-in-Law
That the way to a man's heart is by means of his appetite, is strikingly shown. Mother-in-law comes ...
View Movie
Iron and Steel
Herr Ludwig Kronitz is a king in his own works and rules with a controlling hand. He is known as the...
View Movie
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
View Movie
Kiki
Kiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job ...
View Movie
Captain Barnacle's Waif
Tommy is bright and good-looking and he attracts the notice of a lady in a London slumming party. Wh...
View Movie
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 19...
View Movie
The Woman Disputed
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchan...
View Movie
The New Moon
When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Mich...
View Movie
The Safety Curtain
Puck is a music hall dancer, married to an abusive husband. One night the music hall catches fire. P...
View Movie
Smilin' Through
The story is essentially the same as the popular Jane Cowl play, with Talmadge in the dual role of K...
View Movie
The Heart of Wetona
After the half-breed daughter of a Comanche chief falls for a young engineer who deserts her, she tu...
View Movie
The Lovesick Maidens of Cuddleton
An old doctor hires a young new doctor to join his practice, particularly to attract women for more ...
View Movie
The Battle Cry of Peace
Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense a...
View Movie
Father's Hatband
A short comic film in which Sam and Doris use the hat of Doris’ father (a manager) to send letters t...
View Movie
The Social Secretary
An attractive young girl struggles to hold a job as she deals with unwanted romantic advances from h...
View Movie
Stenographer Troubles
A comic one-act film featuring the character Bunny, which takes place in an office....
View Movie
The Love of Chrysanthemum
A little tragedy of Japan wherein a tourist fails to realize that love is a sacred thing the world r...
View Movie
Under the Daisies
A critic, John Mears, retreats to the countryside to recover his health and learns of a legacy tied ...
View Movie
His Official Appointment
This touching short film lasts only 10 minutes, 34 seconds, but is rather engaging. Charles Kent is ...
View Movie
Fortunes of a Composer
A drama about a poor composer who is betrayed by his family and left alone....
View Movie
Mrs. 'Enry 'Awkins
Noah Clayton, an old coster, who has made a bit of money, lives with his daughter Liza. He is very c...
View Movie
Solitaires
Frank and Julia are very good friends, both being single, and live in adjoining apartments. Getting ...
View Movie
The Children in the House
A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank....
View Movie
An Old Man's Love Story
Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to aba...
View Movie
The Moth
Spoiled young heiress Lucy Gillam knows only a life filled with parties and flirtations until she fa...
View Movie
The Ghosts of Yesterday
After his wife/model has died of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist mee...
View Movie
Her Only Way
The Westbrook family has been ruined financially, and when the daughter Lucille comes home from boar...
View Movie
She Loves and Lies
When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the ...
View Movie
Yes or No
Two wives, one rich, one poor, each find themselves tempted by romantic seducers, and each faces the...
View Movie
The Wonderful Thing
Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs, the daughter of an American hog farmer, is schooled in France and comes...
View Movie
Love's Redemption
On the island of Jamaica, a young man of promise, Clifford Standish, is slowly sinking into an alcoh...
View Movie
The Voice from the Minaret
Lord Carlyle governs a province in India. Although he weds the beautiful Adrienne, he can't make her...
View Movie
The Song of Love
The Song of Love is a silent film of 1923 directed by Chester M. Franklin and Frances Marion. The fi...
View Movie
The Crown Prince's Double
A prince, aiming to avoid an unwanted marriage, hires an American as a double to evade his pursuing ...
View Movie
Fifty-Fifty
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttine...
View Movie
John Rance, Gentleman
A young woman, Lesbia (Norma Talmadge), who has a summer flirtation with a young doctor named John R...
View Movie
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
Jeannette Vaubernier, an impulsive shopgirl en route to deliver a hat, dreams of luxury and position...
View Movie
Graustark
An American falls for the princess of the Kingdom of Graustark, and decides to her marriage to a das...
View Movie
Sawdust and Salome
A rich swell travels out West to escape marrying a social climber. There, he meets and marries a bar...
View Movie
A Dixie Mother
Set during and after the Civil War, a Southern mother deals with the loss of both of her sons as one...
View Movie
The Vavasour Ball
The dramatist’s wife pawns her necklace when her husband tells her he cannot afford to buy her a new...
View Movie
Omens and Oracles
Housemaid Belinda finds a pin on the doorstep, taking it as a sign of good luck, just before a young...
View Movie