Ragtime Tribute to Clara Kimball Young

Greenfield Bowie's CD, Hill Country Ragtime, is available for sale via his website at http://www.greenfieldbowie.com Pianist David Greenfield Bowie is a composer, and he has composed a variety of music including jazz. He is interested in other people recording his compositions, or perhaps using his music in a movie or television show. David Greenfield Bowie has been an Austin musician since 1977, playing a broad range of instrumental standards: from ragtime to classical, jazz to country, contemporary pop hits to golden oldies.

You are invited to view DGBowie's channel and enjoy listening to him performing several of his original pieces. Greenfield Bowie is the composer and pianist. Please check out David Bowie's Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/dgbowie and his website is at http://www.greenfieldbowie.com

Clara Kimball Young (September 6, 1890 - October 15, 1960) was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era.

Clarisa Kimball was born in Chicago; her parents Edward M. Kimball and Pauline Maddern were travelling stock actors. She made her stage debut at the age of three, and throughout her early childhood travelled with her parents and acted with their theater company. She attended St. Francis Xavier's Academy in Chicago and then was afterwards hired into a stock company and resumed her stage career, travelling extensively through the United States and playing various small town theaters.

Early in her career she met and married a fellow stock company actor named James Young. After sending a photograph to Vitagraph Studios, Clara Kimball Young, as she was then known, and her husband were both offered yearly contracts in 1912.

In the new medium of motion pictures, and without much screen competition, Clara Kimball Young's star at Vitagraph rose quickly. Young was predominantly cast in one and two reel roles as the virtuous heroine. By 1913 she had become one of the most popular leading ladies at Vitagraph and placed at number seventeen in a public popularity poll. Unfortunately, many of Young's films from her early period with Vitagraph are now lost.

In 1914 Vitagraph released the drama My Official Wife which starred Young as a Russian revolutionary and was directed by her husband James Young and co-starred the popular leading man Earle Williams. The film, which is now lost, was an enormous success and launched Clara Kimball Young and Earle Williams into first place in the popularity polls and Young was immediately signed to a contract with legendary pioneering Hollywood mogul Lewis J. Selznick.

After a string of successful roles, Young was firmly established as one of the chief attractions of World Film Corporation and her husband James was now a much sought after director. By 1915 Young's popularity was rivalling that of other early luminary actresses of the era: Mary Pickford, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, Pearl White, Edna Purviance, and Mabel Normand.

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[creamofcardstv]

Nicely edited video. Wow, she started in the movie industry in 1912

[Shabannie]

@creamofcardstv I selected Clara because I had been emphasizing actresses who had worked with Rudolph Valentino. Thank you for your thoughtful remarks.

---------Ellen

[alfredostudio]

Beautiful tribute my friend!!

I love all those old pictures!!

All my stars for your wonderful video Ellen!!

Have a beautiful week!!

~ Alfredo :)

[Shabannie]

@alfredostudio  Thank you for your thoughtful remarks.

-------Ellen

[TorontoEd7]

Another terrific video and music Ellen!

[Shabannie]

@TorontoEd7  Thank you for your thoughtful comments.

-------Ellen

[Shabannie]

@MrLuiscastellanos Thank you for your thoughtful comments.

---------Ellen 

[MrLuiscastellanos]

Wonderful memories !!!!



[Shabannie]

@imagefactories  I think that my friend's ragtime music goes well with the silent movie stars. He has composed other kinds of music that I will post later. Thank you for your nice comments.

------------Ellen