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Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
Norma Talmadge. Actress: Camille. Norma Talmadge was born on May 26, 1895, in Jersey City, New Jersey. The daughter of an unemployed alcoholic and his wife, Norma did not have the idyllic childhood that most of us yearn for.
Mar 11, 2010 · Born in Jersey City and raised in Brooklyn, Talmadge often played working-class women betrayed by upper-class cads. In “Within the Law” she’s a department store salesgirl unjustly accused of...
Norma was a slight, soulful-eyed brunette beauty adept at “emotional” roles while Constance was a tall, gawky blond, not particularly pretty but with a face full of mischief. Yet they were bound together closely in their professional careers and linked in publicity as well as in their personal lives.
Norma Marie Talmadge (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
Talmadge, Norma (1893–1957) American silent-film actress. Born on May 26, 1893 (some sources cite 1895 and 1897), in Jersey City, New Jersey (some sources cite Brooklyn, New York ); died from a cerebral stroke due to complications from arthritis, pneumonia, and possibly drug abuse in Las Vegas, Nevada, on December 24, 1957; eldest daughter of ...
Dec 14, 2021 · But the then-20-year-old Talmadge would go on to have a very successful career, one that was made by studios and the press. From a life of virtual poverty, her star rose in Hollywood because of her ambition, good luck and a stage mother who also masterminded her career and that of her sisters, Natalie and Constance.
Nov 1, 2022 · A few weeks ago I could have happily told you that New Jersey-born Norma Talmadge (sister of comic actresses Constance and Natalie, who married Buster Keaton) was a huge star in American cinema in the early 1920s.
In an era when the movie industry churned through stars, Norma Talmadge had remarkable staying power. Beginning at the time of nickelodeons, she later rose to stardom in the late 1910s and then superstardom in the early 1920s, sailing through the rest of the decade before talkies finally put a close to her career.
“The thing that makes Talmadge a star is the look in her eyes,” MGM studio head and star-maker Louis B. Mayer once said of actress Norma Talmadge. One of the most popular stars of the silents, her career ended after two poorly received talkies, and she is nearly forgotten today.
