Orilla Smith, a young girl, appeared in a Thanhouser film in 1910.
Orilla Smith
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch Orilla SmithOpens The Actor’s Children (1910)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 84 words.
Orilla Smith (spelled Orrilla in some accounts) played the part a the little girl, opposite Yale Boss, in the first Thanhouser film release, The Actor’s Children (March 15, 1910). At the time she lived in New York City. According to an account in The New York Dramatic Mirror, March 19, 1910, she and her young co-player, Yale Boss, both had had “a bit of stage training and considerable moving picture experience” previously.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “SMITH, Orilla.” thanhouser.org/research/people/orilla-smith/