Sydney-born Australian silent film actress Louise Lovely in two scenes from “Painted Lips” (1918).

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Los Angeles, California : Edward LeSaint, [c.1918]. Two gelatin silver print photographs on lightweight card stock, in identical 160 x 210 mm format; the negatives inscribed LeSaint 2439 and LeSaint 2739 and the versos with old pencil annotations: Louise Lovely and The Straw Cellar , respectively; both prints are in fine condition (unframed). Two stills from the Hollywood silent film Painted Lips (1918), directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Australian actress Louise Lovely. Note that The Straw Cellar was the working title of this film. From the ADB : Louise Nellie Lovely (1895-1980), actress, was born on 28 February 1895 at Paddington, Sydney, daughter of Ferruccio Carlo Alberti, Italian musician, and Elise Louise Jeanne de Gruningen Lehmann, a Swiss. Louise spoke French better than English in her early years; this helped her to win her first stage role at the age of 9 as Little Eva in Uncle Tom s Cabin as the producers wanted a young actress whose speech they could mould. After several juvenile parts, some in amateur productions, she joined Nellie Stewart s company for a New Zealand tour. Small roles there were her apprenticeship for the lead with the George Marlow Company, which she joined in her early teens. Her first films were made for Gaston Mervale and his Australian Life Biograph Company. In 1911 she starred in A Tale of the Australian Bush, One Hundred Years Ago, A Ticket in Tatts, and Colleen Bawn, and, in 1912, Hands Across the Sea, A Daughter of Australia, Conn

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