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Bertha Blanchard

A Thanhouser Company player, in 2 films you can watch free online.

Watch Bertha BlanchardOpens The Vicar of Wakefield (1910)

Biography

Bertha Blanchard appeared in several Thanhouser films during the 1910-1912 era. At the Thanhouser Employees’ Entertainment and Ball, April 15, 1912, she performed in a skit, and she was among those in attendance at the Thanhouser outing on September 7, 1912.

Q. David Bowers, Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History. This is the entry in full.

Filmography

Films you can watch

13:201910The Vicar of Wakefield12:251912 · as the albinoThe Star of the Side Show

Other Thanhouser films

These have no online copy. Each page says what is known about where a print is held.

Photographs

Bertha Blanchard, photograph. In THE STAR OF THE SIDESHOW, Marie Eline, in right foreground as a midget, Bertha Blanchard was the albino, David H. Thompson was the strongman, May Carr as the fat lady, Fanny Gregory as the bearded lady, and Robert Milasch, in the background as a giant. Courtesy of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.