Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji, John Alexander Logan, Jr., Rich Gardner, Kurt "Kobane" Couthon. Excerpt: Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. Early life and career Born as Agnes Eyre Henkel in Carbondale, Illinois, she began her career in 1914 when she was noticed by an Essanay Studios staff director and cast as an extra in a crowd scene. After moving to New York City with her mother to pursue a career in acting, Ayres was spotted by actress Alice Joyce . Joyce noticed the physical resemblance the two shared which eventually led to Ayres being cast in Richard the Brazen (1917), as Joyce's character's sister. Ayres' career began to gain momentum when Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Laksy began to take an interest in her. Lasky gave her a starring role in the Civil War drama Held by the Enemy (1920), and also lobbied for parts for her in several Cecil B. DeMille productions. It was during this time that Ayres married, and quickly divorced, Captain Frank P. Schuker, an army officer whom she had wed during World War I . She also began a romance with Paramount executive Jesse Lasky. In 1921, Ayres shot to stardom when she was cast as Lady Diana Mayo, an English heiress opposite "Latin lover" Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik . Aryes would later reprise her role as Lady Diana in the 1926 sequel Son of the Sheik . Following the release of The Shiek, she went on to have major roles in many other films including The Affairs of Anatol (1921) starring Wallace Reid, Forbidden Fruit (1921), and Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1923). By 1923, Ayres' career began to wane following the end of her relationship with Jesse ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Carbondale, Illinois: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji. To get started finding People from Carbondale, Illinois: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
56
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155239970
People from Carbondale, Illinois: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji, John Alexander Logan, Jr., Rich Gardner, Kurt "Kobane" Couthon. Excerpt: Agnes Ayres Agnes Ayres (April 4, 1898 December 25, 1940) was an American actress who rose to fame during the silent film era. Early life and career Born as Agnes Eyre Henkel in Carbondale, Illinois, she began her career in 1914 when she was noticed by an Essanay Studios staff director and cast as an extra in a crowd scene. After moving to New York City with her mother to pursue a career in acting, Ayres was spotted by actress Alice Joyce . Joyce noticed the physical resemblance the two shared which eventually led to Ayres being cast in Richard the Brazen (1917), as Joyce's character's sister. Ayres' career began to gain momentum when Paramount Pictures founder Jesse Laksy began to take an interest in her. Lasky gave her a starring role in the Civil War drama Held by the Enemy (1920), and also lobbied for parts for her in several Cecil B. DeMille productions. It was during this time that Ayres married, and quickly divorced, Captain Frank P. Schuker, an army officer whom she had wed during World War I . She also began a romance with Paramount executive Jesse Lasky. In 1921, Ayres shot to stardom when she was cast as Lady Diana Mayo, an English heiress opposite "Latin lover" Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik . Aryes would later reprise her role as Lady Diana in the 1926 sequel Son of the Sheik . Following the release of The Shiek, she went on to have major roles in many other films including The Affairs of Anatol (1921) starring Wallace Reid, Forbidden Fruit (1921), and Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1923). By 1923, Ayres' career began to wane following the end of her relationship with Jesse ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Carbondale, Illinois: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji. To get started finding People from Carbondale, Illinois: Paul Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Shawn Colvin, Agnes Ayres, Frankie Trumbauer, Troy Hudson, Sola Abolaji, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.