August 2007

Put up a new page of assorted old articles and clippings which are also from that EBay stash. I just scanned them and put them up on a single page, i don't have the time to transcribe them anymore. Also updated the status of Camille, and A Lively Affair in the Filmography.

July 2007

Ok, i'm finally delving into the ebay stuff i mentioned last November, mostly unidentified clippings. Added reviews for My Official Wife (plus picture), The Foolish Virgin, Camille, Magda, The Woman of Bronze (plus picture) , Cordelia the Magnificent (plus picture), A Wife's Romance, Women Go On Forever, The Hands of Nara (plus a picture and an ad), Charge It, Hush (plus an incomplete short story adaptation), Mid Channel, For The Soul of Rafael, The Forbidden Woman, The Better Wife and The Easiest Way, to which i also added the scanned Photoplay short story adaptation, a picture, plus a short Motion Picture Magazine review (courtesy of Frederica). And pictures from The Price She Paid, The Savage Woman, and The Reason Why. Also added these links to the Filmography. Derek Boothroyd and I both recently acquired pennants, so added both to the Picture gallery, as well some other clippings and a photo of Clara with D.W. Griffith and others in 1936 from Randy Bigham.

April 2007

Got a nice picture that i added to the Picture gallery. Thanks to Carl and Cordina Worley and the estate of Larry M. Reynolds for this. I updated the video page, adding Grapevine's DVD offerings and deleting Videobrary (which now goes to a site selling bras!). Bruce Calvert found a new site for his The Silent Film Still Archive, so i changed a few links. Haven't gotten to the Ebay stuff i mentioned in November. I'll be lucky if i get it posted this year!

November 2006

I posted existing footage from My Official wife on Google Video, which promptly corrupted the file (along with the Hearts in Exile file). So i posted both to The Internet Archive , and added the links to the Filmography. as well as the individual pages for the film. Also added a link to the filmography and the video page for Sunrise Silents DVD-R of Devil's Island, which has What a Change of Clothes Did (1913) as an extra. Stay tuned, i just got a bunch of Clara Kimball Young material from EBay, and will be adding it in the next few months.

September 2006

I posted Hearts in Exile on Google Video, and added the link to the filmography Filmography.

July 2006

Just a couple of tweaks to the Filmography, including posting a link to A Midsummer Night's Dream on Google Video, which i dont' think has Clara in it anyway.

May 2006

Whew! Finally typed up the cast and credits and release dates for the Vitagraph short films in the Filmography. Now i finally have to look up and type the reviews. That should only take a couple more years!

April 2006

Thanks to Joop van Dijk and Juan from Brussels for identifying Queen Elizabeth of Belgium with Clara in a photo in the Picture gallery

October 2005

Added more Lucile credits to Filmography (thanks to Randy Bigham for all the costume credits, and also for the advertisement for Eyes of Youth and new review for Mid Channel . Created a page of addresses. Was reading Opera News and noticed we had a match on an unidentified woman in the Picture gallery. It's Luisa Tetrazzini! Also added credits from the filmography to the pages for the individual films.

February 2005

Added a picture of Clara on a Moriarty playing card to the Picture gallery, as well as a link to Things-and-other-stuff.com's description of the card set. Also added links to their Clara Kimball Young page (gee, a lot of that sounds familiar) to the Home Page. Also on the home page corrected URLS for all the Silent-movies.org links, and added links to the Blue Book of the Screen article and a short one from Silents are Golden. And was able to use the Blue Book of the Screen to identify a picture of Harry Garson on the main essay page.

January 2005

Added a picture of Clara with Fred Truesdell from Camille and added a link to the Filmography. Also added pictures to Trilby, and Hearts in Exile, as well as a group photo of the World Film Corp. to the main essay. Thanks to Truesdell's great grandson Bill Rabe for these pictures

December 2004

Added comments for the talkies Mother and Son and The Gold Coin to the filmography and video pages. Also, Don McDaniel informed me of the still from The Yellow Passport that he has mounted on his Edwin August website. I added a link to the picture from the and Yellow Passport page and the Filmography. Also added a a postcard to the Picture gallery, courtesy of Phil J. Tedeschi. Thanks!

November 2004

Added a new postcard of the outside of Garson Studios which i linked to the main essay under a picture of the Garson Studios staff.

October 2004

Richard Steele sent me this picture of a theater which is displaying posters of A Wife's Romance. Added a link to that page and the Filmography page.

Added the film "The Fates and Flora Fourflush" (1915) to the Filmography page. Thanks to Zhana Morris for bringing this title to my attention (too bad it appears to be lost). Also added a notation to "The Picture Idol" that a clip appears in the film "Lyrical Nitrate. Also added Clara's address at the time of hear death to the biography page and added an annotion to the Pictures on the picture of her Waring Ave. house.

August 2004

Added links to the new site Golden Silents to the Home page, which includes a biographical page on Clara.

A DVD is now out of Trilby, so added mention on the page for that film and the video page, also added to that page mentions of Alpha Video's DVDs of the talkies The Return of Chandu and Rogue's Tavern. Too bad their site is so hard to search--i had to browse genres.

July 2004

Cool new pictures from Steve Joyce-- 10 pictures from the photoplay novel of Lola. Also, the cover of the sheet music from Eyes of Youth Plus a couple of pictures from Cleo from Luxembourg, a profile portrait and one with a hat, which i added to the Picture Gallery

June 2004

Of all things, found the 1919 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of the Garson Studios online! Added a link under the postcard of the Garson staff on the main essay page

Received scans of a program for The Easiest Way from Randy Bigham.

January 2004

Thanks to info from William Shute, separated the entries for The Wages of Sin and Confessioon of a Vice Baron on the filmography page. Also credited Chris Snowden on that page for his comments on She Married Her Boss.

Oops, forgot the other picture Mark Goffee sent, so added that one to the Picture Gallery

December 2003

Removed references to The Silents Majority, since their domain name is now for sale. Also removed references to Grapevine video, and added Mother and Son and Alpha Video's DVD of Return of Chandu to the videos page.

Added a picture of Clara in a fur trimmed dress and coat to the Picture Gallery Thanks to Mark Goffee for this scan

June 2003

Great news! Tim Lanza at the Douris Corporation reports that they have prints of For the Soul of Rafael. Updated Filmography and provided comments.Thanks Tim!

Steven Lyons very kindly obtained Kevin Brownlow's permission to transcribe his interview with Gareth Hughes, and to allow me to post the transcript. Thanks to both gentlemen for such a special addition to the website!

Chris Snowden spotted Clara in She Married Her Boss and described her role. Updated Filmography Thank you, Chris.

June 2003

Added several new pictures from Randy Bigham to the Picture Gallery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and a better scan of 8 Thanks!

May 2003

Finally saw Rogue's Tavern--what a hoot! A must for Clara's fans. Added brief comments to filmography.

Added three new tinted portraits from Barbara Ulibarri. 1, 2, and 3, and updated and on most updated the Picture Gallery (added a few of Randy's pictures there, too). Thanks!

More lovely Lucile fashion pictures and articles from Randy Bigham! Two fashion spreads from The Reason Why from Vogue July 15, 1918 and April 1, 1918 and from Theatre Magazine, a Lucile fashion sketch, Two gowns from The Rise of Susan (1) and (2), a review for The Marionettes from Motion picture classic , and on most updated the filmography accordingly.

Added additional notes on Eastman House's print of Trilby and added archive note to filmography. Also took out the note that it had been announced for the new Treasures DVD set--since Eastman's print is the cut-up reissue, apparently it isn't considered to be worth putting out on the set. Too bad.

February 2003

Added three pictures for The Easiest Way, and updated filmography (thanks to David Menefee), and added archive note to filmography listing for Wampas Babies (1924)

January 2003

Added a link to the AFI Catalog

July 2002

Added a poster for Hush, and updated filmography (thanks to David Menefee)

July 2002

Added press book for The Common Law, and updated Common Law page and Filmography to reflect.

Added new portraits in costume for Enter Madame and The Common Law

Added link on homepage to Gilda's Blue Book of the Screen

Last revised, August 3, 2007