Women in the Silent Cinema

Front matter

ANNETTE FORSTER

Histories of Fame and Fate

Amsterdan Universit

Table Of Contents

INTRODUCTION 9

The Method of Writing Careerographies 11

Archival and Other Sources 15

Part I Adrienne Solser, The Netherlands

ADRIENNE SOLSER ON THE DUTCH POPULAR STAGE 25 The Formative Years, 1885-1904 25

Pioneering Comedians in the Dutch Variété 26

The Years of Achievement, 1904-1914 38

New Entertainment Genres and Blurry Boundaries 39 Entr’acte: Solser’s Repertoire and Stage Persona 46 The Years of Character Comedy, 1914-1920 55 Adriénne Solser as the Amsterdam Folk Woman 56 Stage History of Amsterdam Folk Characters 58

ADRIENNE SOLSER AND THE DUTCH SILENT CINEMA 73 Interaction On-stage and On-screen, 1896-1930 73 Mixed Programs in Dutch Variétés and Cinemas 73 Staging Films: Lecturing 80

Dutch Comic Film Production until1920 83 Reviewing Interaction Between Stage and Screen 90 Dutch Comic Film during the 1920s 92

Adriénne Solser as an On- and Off-screen Film Performer 92 A Difficult Choice 105

Adriénne Solser’s Production Company, 1924-1928 106 Solser’s Live Act and the Bet-character 116

Solser’s Careerinthe Cinema 131

Epilogue 132

Part II Musidora, France

Jeanne Roques Becoming Musidora, 1906-1912 137 Musidora’s Early Acting Career 142

French Popular Stage Genres 143

Musidora in Music-hall and the Parisian Revue, 1912-1914 145 Of Vedettes and “their” Genres 148

Musidora in the Parisian Revue 151

Revue and Film 162

Musidora’s Writings and Charicatures 166

Conditions of Musidora’s Stage Career by1914 167

MUSIDORA AND THE FRENCH SILENT CINEMA 169 Musidora as an Actress at Gaumont, 1914-1916 169 Feuillade’s Dramas and Comic Films with Musidora 173 Coexistence Cinema and Stage Performance 188 Ciné-vaudevilles and Stage Vaudeville 192

Feuillade’s Serials with Musidora 210

Musidora as an Actress, 1916-1918 236

Musidora Speaking about Acting in LAVAGABONDE 240 Musidora Writing, Directing, Acting and Producing Films, 1919-1924 245 VICENTA (1920) 246

POUR DON CARLOS (1921) 249

SOLEIL ET OMBRE (1922) 263

LA TERRE DES TAUREAUX (1924) 271

Epilogue 278