First of all thanks for your nice comments yesterday! I'm not that sick or anything . . . I probably was extra dramatic about it--I just have some flu or cold bug. It kind of makes me extra lazy, but in a way it's nice and it makes me feel like I'm a kid again because all I really want to do is rest and watch movies and read books, and I don't care a bit about what I look like or if my outfit is nice (it isn't--right now it's a dog nightgown I've had since I was 15 and also black tights to keep warm). And I just want to drink some tea or apple cider and get around to finishing that collection of D.W. Griffith shorts from Netflix.

So it seemed appropriate to do another post on the silent film scrapbook I found. My goal is to eventually scan the whole thing to my Flickr account (here's what I have so far), and to do a short little post on each actress in it. This time I skipped ahead in the book to go with a blonde actress, because I feel like I hardly ever include blondes in my silent film inspiration posts. And it doesn't seem fair, but really I think it's just that the brunettes interest me most, if only because we have more in common, and there's more chance of my looking like a dark-haired Mabel Normand than, say, a very blonde Mary Pickford. Or the light-haired and angelic looking Blanche Sweet.


I always thought that Blanche Sweet's name had been made up by an overly cutesy film director, but according to the Wikipedia article on her it's her original name. And it's perfectly fitting for her innocent ingenue looks and for the roles she played--lots of D.W. Griffith innocent ingenue parts. Definitely the opposite of the Lula magazine vamp girl I wrote about the other day, but just as inspiring in her own way. And even though her hair is light and mine is dark, it looks like we both have the silent film frizzy hair going for us. Plus I think I want to steal her headband idea in the first photo.