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Clara Kimball Young (born Edith Matilda Clara Kimball; September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960) [2] was an American film actress who was popular in the early silent film era.
Clara Kimball Young played the sort of roles in the1910’s that were taken by Norma Talmadge in the 1920’s. She starred in dozens of successful “women pictures” featuring noble, mature characters coping with tragedy and heartbreak.
Clara Kimball Young. Actress: The Common Law. Clara Kimball Young was born Clarisa Kimball on September 6, 1890, to Edward Kimball and the former Mrs. E.M. Kimball, traveling stock company actors with the Holden Co.
To be fair, Clara Kimball Young had a nude scene in Trilby, a film based on George Du Maurier’s famous 1894 serialized novel of an artist’s model who falls under the spell of Svengali, a hypnotic musician who reinvents her as a fabulous opera star but utterly controls her.
Dec 25, 2021 · Clara Kimball Young appeared in many Vitagraph films from at least 1912 to 1915, though some sources place her there as early as 1909. These films are not well documented, so this is only a provisional list.
Mar 3, 2024 · Clara Kimball Young was once the most popular movie star in America, and the queen of adult society dramas of the 1910s. But by the mid 1920s she was out of films, and when she came back in the 1930s it was largely in bit roles in B pictures.
Clara Kimball Young was a hugely popular American actress during the early silent film era. A 1914 poll showed that she was the most popular actress in America at the time. Clara appeared in over 150 films and was the second female film star to start a namesake film production company.
