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1917 JUNE CAPRICE IN "UNKNOWN 274" SILENT FILM MAGIC LANTERN GLASS SLIDE 4" X 3
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June Caprice
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June Caprice
Born
Helen Elizabeth Lawson
November 19, 1895
Arlington, Massachusetts
, U.S.
Died
November 9, 1936 (aged 40)
Los Angeles, California
, U.S.
Other names
The Vamp
Years active
1916–1921
Spouse(s)
Harry F. Millarde
(m.1923–1931, his death)
Children
Toni Seven
June Caprice
(born
Helen Elizabeth Lawson
, November 19, 1895 – November 9, 1936)
[1]
[2]
was an American
silent film
actress.
Early life and career
[
edit
]
Born Helen Elizabeth Lawson in
Arlington, Massachusetts
, Caprice was educated in Boston.
[3]
She began her acting career in
live theatre
and in 1916 signed with the
Fox Film Corporation
. In 1916
William Fox
searched to find a "second
Mary Pickford
." By the summer of that year he believed he had located the woman he predicted would be the best known female on the screen within six months time.
[4]
The 1916 press release claimed both that she was a 17-year-old teenager, and in the same press release "just a little over 17 years of age."
[5]
Her obituary in 1936 listed her age as 40, making her about 20 years of age at her discovery.
[6]
Caprice's screen debut came in
Caprice of the Mountains
(1916).
[3]
A
New York Times
film critic said of her, "she is young, pretty, graceful, petite, with an eloquence of gesture that augurs a bright future in the movies." Adopting the
stage name
June Caprice, she made sixteen films for Fox, half of which were directed by
Harry F. Millarde
. The two began a personal relationship and eventually married.
[7]