Norma Talmadge
Biography
Norma Talmadge started her career in one-reelers in 1909 for Vitagraph, playing bit roles as a young teenager starting. As she continually worked at the studio over the next several years, her parts grew until she frequently started as the leading lady. Her young promising career got a huge boost after her marriage to exhibitor Joseph M. Schenck. Together, they formed the Norma Talmadge Film Corporation in 1917 and began producing Star vechiles for Talmadge. Specializing in melodramas and woman’s pictures, Talmadge became one of the biggest stars of the 1920s, starting in hits such as Smilin’ Through, Secrets, The Lady, and Kiki. With her star already fading when the talkie revolution swept Hollywood, Talmadge made just two sound films before retiring from the screen. Although largely forgotten today, Talmadge was a pioneering producer and director who stood as one of the most popular and powerful women in early Hollywood.
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Movies (50)
Just Show Folks
as Rosa
2022
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
Du Barry, Woman of Passion
as Madame Du Barry
1930
New York Nights
as Jill Deverne
1929
Show People
as Self (uncredited)
1928
The Woman Disputed
as Mary Ann Wagner
1928
The Dove
as Dolores
1927
Camille
as Marguerite Gautier (Camille)
1927
Kiki
as Kiki
1926
Graustark
as Princess Yetive
1925
The Lady
as Polly Pearl
1925
The Only Woman
as Helen Brinsley
1924
In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter
as Herself
1924
Secrets
as Mary Carlton
1924
The Song of Love
as Noorma-hal
1923
Ashes of Vengeance
as Yolande de Breux
1923
Within the Law
as Mary Turner
1923
The Voice from the Minaret
as Lady Adrienne Carlyle
1923
The Lovely Hundred
as Herself
1922
Seeing Stars
as Self
1922
The Eternal Flame
as Duchesse de Langeais
1922
Smilin' Through
as Kathleen / Moonyeen
1922
Love's Redemption
as Jennie Dobson (aka Ginger)
1921
The Wonderful Thing
as Jacqueline Laurentine Boggs
1921
The Sign on the Door
as Ann Hunniwell / Mrs. 'Lafe' Regan
1921
The Passion Flower
as Acacia, The Passion Flower
1921
The Branded Woman
as Ruth Sawyer
1920
Yes or No
as Margaret Vane / Minnie Berry
1920
The Woman Gives
as Inga Sonderson
1920
A Daughter of Two Worlds
as Jennie Malone
1920
She Loves and Lies
as Marie Callender, aka Marie Max and June Dayne
1920
The Isle of Conquest
as Ethel Harmon
1919
The Way of a Woman
as Nancy Lee
1919
The Probation Wife
as Josephine Mowbray
1919
The New Moon
as Princess Marie Pavlovna
1919
The Heart of Wetona
as Wetona
1919
The Forbidden City
as San San / Toy
1918
Her Only Way
as Lucille Westbrook
1918
The Safety Curtain
as Puck
1918
De Luxe Annie
as Julie Kendal (De Luxe Annie II)
1918
By Right of Purchase
as Margot Hughes
1918
The Ghosts of Yesterday
as Ruth Graham / Jeanne La Fleur
1918
The Secret of the Storm Country
as Tess Skinner
1917
The Moth
as Lucy Gillam
1917
Poppy
as Poppy Destinn
1917
The Law of Compensation
as Flora Graham / Ruth Graham
1917
Panthea
as Panthea Romoff
1917
Fifty-Fifty
as Naomi Harmon
1916
The Social Secretary
as Mayme
1916
The Devil's Needle
as Renee Duprez
1916