She joined Thanhouser early in 1915 and was seen in various films, including the 1915 Falstaff release of Movie Fans, the 1916 films The Bubbles in the Glass, King Lear, and others. While with Thanhouser, she received extensive publicity. Later she was with the National Drama Corporation and appeared in The Fall of a Nation, released in October 1916, Thomas Dixon’s attempt to repeat the screen success achieved by his earlier literary effort, The Birth of A Nation. Dixon had been impressed with her performance in The Straight Road and signed her for a part in his film.
The New Rochelle Evening Standard, July 18, 1916, carried this item: “Lorraine Huling, who will shortly be seen as Cordelia in the Thanhouser film version of King Lear, in which Frederick Warde is to be featured has gone to her summer home in Westport, Connecticut for five weeks’ vacation before rehearsing for a new picture with the Famous Players. Miss Huling has three of the girls who appeared with her in The Fall of a Nation with her as her guests for two weeks and all of them indulge in bareback riding to the exclusion of everything else but a little food now and then.”
An article in the New York Morning Telegraph, July 21, 1916, noted that Miss Huling lived in Westport, Connecticut, and had arranged to go into training in Rowayton, Connecticut, in the National Service School, conducted on the grounds of the estate of Mrs. Josephine Graw. An accomplished horsewoman, she was to learn the routine and discipline of army training, with the exception of firearms, and was to take charge of a riding class of 30 students. In an article in The Sunday Leader, Cleveland, July 30, 1916, she was quoted as saying: “Marriage? Shush! All the interesting men are in jail.” The 1918 edition of the Motion Picture Studio Directory noted that at the time Lorraine Huling was still with Thanhouser in New Rochelle, but this represented an unrevised earlier listing.
