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Movie Makers at the Crown Point Chalet

Actors, directors, producers, writers, film executives, and anyone known to be associated with movie production. (1916-26) Listed alphabetically within year of appearance at the Chalet.

* Unconfirmed
+ Subject of Detailed Study

Name

Year Connection to film making
Roscoe Arbuckle + 1916 Fatty moniker/comedic actor/sensational scandal and trial in SF
Bille Burke* 1916 Actress, stage and screen /married to Florenz Ziegfeld in 1914
Vernon Castle + 1916 Dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle / film Whirl of Life (1915)
Fred H. Kiser 1916 Photographer/studio at Crater Lake NP/first footage at summit Mt. Hood
Mary R. Rinehart + 1916 Mystery writer/her novels and story writing credited with 34 films
Jean Hersholt + 1919 Actor/famous for Academy Award's Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Mrs. Via Hersholt 1919 Via Anderson married Jean Hersholt (above) in 1914
Carol Holloway + 1919 Actress/credited 37 films/appeared with Tom Mix and Buster Keaton
Walter H. McMonies 1919 President American Lifeograph Co.,a motion picture studio in Portland
Lewis H. Moomaw + 1919 Director and head of American Lifeograph Co., a pioneering film studio
Bert Sprotte + 1919 Actor/in films with Mary Pickford, William S. Hart, Jean Hersholt
Raymond Wells 1919 Film director, writer, actor (1915-28)/credited 6 films with Jean Hersholt
Charlotte Greenwood   1920 Actress, zany comedienne / 6ft. 3 inches tall
Victor Moore* 1920 Bumbling character comedian of stage and screen
Clara Morris 1920 Silent film actress & writer/credited 5 films
Valeska Suratt 1920 Silent film actress played “vamp” roles /credited 11 films (1915-17)
Fay Bainter + 1921 Academy award for best supporting actress, Jezebel (1938)
Harry Joe Brown + 1921 Producer, director, writer/credited with 151 films (1922-67)
Lew Cody + 1921 Actor, charming, debonair roles / married to actress Mabel Normand
Ronald Colman + 1921 Romantic leading man, silent and sound / academy award winner
Ted Lewis + 1921 Showman extraordinaire/ band leader / credited with 7 films
Bert Lytell + 1921 Actor/portrayed fictional heroes "The Lone Wolf" & "Boston Blackie"
Margaret Matzenauer 1921 New York Met soprano for 19 seasons/credited one film 1936
Arthur Reid* 1921 Hollywood screen writer/credited with 3 films (1948)
Wallace Reid*+ 1921 Silent film super star / died January 18, 1923 of drug addiction
Frank Shellenback 1921 Actor/credited Alibi Ike (1935) with Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland
Ilya Tolstoy + 1921 Wrote adaptation, acted in Resurrection (1927)/son of Count Leo Tolstoy
Theda Bara*+ 1923 Hollywood sex queen of silent era /famous image as the "Vamp"
Lillian Burkhart* 1923 Hollywood hair stylist/credited with 2 films (1948 & 1956)
Charles W. Cadman 1923 Music Composer/wrote From the Land of Sky Blue Waters
Charles Chaplin*+ 1923 Sir Charles Chaplin/actor, director, producer /made famous the "Tramp"
Douglas McLean*+ 1923 Actor, producer, writer /credited with 56 films (1914-37)
Jay Morley 1923 Actor/in Trailin (1921) with Chalet guests Carol Holloway, Bert Sprotte
Pola Negri*+ 1923 Hollywood sex outrage/intimately associated with Charles Chaplin
Carol Wines 1923 Actress/silent & sound/credited with 10 films (1915-33)
Robert C. Bruce 1924 Director, producer, cinematographer / from White Salmon, Wa.
Carol Dempster + 1924 Actress and mistress of legendary director D. W. Griffith
Mary Garden + 1924 Sensual opera star/2 silent films:Thais (1917) & Splendid Sinner 1918)
Dorothy Gray 1924 Actress/wife of Robert C. Bruce (above)/ credited with 10 films
Kathleen Norris + 1924 Writer credited with 16 films, mostly for novels adapted to screen
Jack Pickford + 1924 Actor, director, producer/brother of Mary Pickford/credited 106 films
Milton Sills + 1924 Actor/tall, ruggedly handsome intellectual/The Sea Wolf (1930)
Melville W. Brown 1925 Director, writer/born in Portland/credited with 32 films (1919-37)
Mildred Davis 1925 Actress & wife of Harold Lloyd / credited with 22 films
Harold Lloyd + 1925 Actor, producer/ immortal comedian of the silent screen
John L. Murphy 1925 Harold Lloyd’s production manager & close friend
Loyd Wright 1925 Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles attorney/preference for confrontation
Charlotte Dabney 1926 Actress/Internet reveals one sound film: True Confession (1937)
Virginia Dabney 1926 Actress /credited with 15 sound films (1935-40)
Charles Pollock 1926 Still photographer/credit one 1931 film with Jean Hersholt
John J. Richardson 1926 Actor/credited 7 films (1924-7), including Beau Brummel (1924)