Clara Kimball Young
Clara Kimball Young ( born September 6, 1890 in Chicago, Illinois, † October 15, 1960 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American actress. From 1909 until the early 1940s, she appeared in over 150 film productions.
Life
Kimball Young was already as an infant at the age of three years with her parents, migrant actors Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Kimball, on the stage. Together with her husband, the actor and later director James Young, in 1909, she found a job with the film production company, Vitagraph. Her parents followed in 1912. Kimball Young's first films were mostly directed by J. Stuart Blackton. With light melodramas and romantic comedies to Kimball Young played until the mid- 1910s into the first ranks of film actresses. In particular, their roles alongside the male Vitagraph star Earle Williams, as the resulting 1914 under the direction of James Young My Official Wife, brought her public acclaim.
Lewis J. Selznick brought the couple Young in 1914 for his newly formed film company World Film Corporation under contract. Her first role was that of her father played by Alec B. Francis, again brought to life girl Lola in the film of the same; Directed by James Young. The following year, Kimball Young had an affair with Selznick. After The Heart of the Blue Ridge (1915 ) James Young led never again directed a film of his wife. After three years of mudslinging the marriage was divorced in 1919.
Selznick founded with her 1916 Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation. For the first films The Foolish Virgin (1916 ), The Common Law (1916 ) and The Easiest Way ( 1917), French director Albert Capellani was engaged. Kimball Young turned in 1917 by which they personally and financially controlled from Selznick and tied to business and amorous to the film director and producer Harry Garson. My estranged husband James Young attacked Garson early 1917 an action before the Astor Theatre in New York with a knife. Garson, Kimball Young and Selznick sat down under the judicially allegedly misappropriated revenue and performance rights Kimball Young's apart. Kimball Young produced with the help of Garson their movies now on himself and distributed them according to the agreement with Selznick on the Select Picture Corporation of Selznick and Adolph Zukor. In addition to Jack Holt and Tully Marshall she managed to bejubelter and critics success directed by Allan Dwan Cheating Cheaters (1919). After following film The Better Wife ( 1919), she finished one-sided business relationship with Selznick.
With the film production company Garson Productions and Equity Kimball Young gained de facto independence in production and marketing of your movies for the first time. The first production Eyes of Youth (1919) with Gareth Hughes was extremely successful as last previously My Official Wife and played the starting capital you require. Selznick won a strained from him against Kimball Young method for non-performance of the contract. He has been granted for each of the next ten Clara Kimball Young movies U.S. $ 25,000. The remaining nine films with Clara Kimball Young Garson directed without being overly talented for this task. The reviews were poor from film to film. Garson and Young gave up your production company in 1922.
Your new producer Sam Zierler let Garson not do more directing, but continued more experienced directors such as Wallace Worsley (Enter Madame, 1922) and King Vidor ( The Woman of Bronze, 1923) a. Your career so that he could not save, it was already considered for their role type " too old ". After 1925 she entered service in vaudeville theaters.
With the beginning of the sound era she got from the early 1930s again some film appearances. After a comic role in Kept Husbands she starred in Women Go on Forever and Mother and Son (all three 1931). But then it was only used as a bit player. A prominent role was her Cecil B. DeMille in Hollywood Extra Girl ( 1935), a short promotional film for his large-scale production Crusaders - Richard the Lionheart (1935 ), in which Kimball Young was involved only as an extra. Your last role was in 1941 in William Beaudines Mr. Celebrity, in which they represent, together with Francis X. Bushman two former silent movie stars by their actual names.
In 1960, Clara Kimball Young was honored with a star on the Walk of Fame. She lies on the Grand View Memorial Park in Glendale buried.