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Died. Norma Talmadge, 60, velvet-eyed star of the silent screen, best-known of three moviemaking sisters (the others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies...
...product is not as bad as it might be. Beaudine believes that "planning and being a jump ahead is what counts." He recalls an old two-reeler he was directing when an elderly actress dropped dead in mid-picture. Saddened but unsentimental, Bill stopped shooting only long enough to write her out of the script, with a subtitle reading: "Mrs. Murphy has gone to her relatives...
...others: a 1913 four-reeler with James K. Hackett and Alan Hale, a 1922 adaptation with Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro and Alice Terry, a 1937 production with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Raymond Massey and Douglas Fairbanks...
...others: a 1912 two-reeler with Alma Rubens and Wallace Reid, a 1925 edition with Mae Murray and John Gilbert, a 1934 version with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier...
...most filmed of Scott's 25 novels. Other screen versions of Ivanhoe: a three-reel Hollywood production made in 1913 with King Baggot in the title role, and a 1913 British six-reeler entitled Rebecca the Jewess...