American actress Clara Kimball Young started making films as an ingénue at the Brooklyn-based Vitagraph Studios in 1912. She was skilled at both comedy and drama; one of her better roles was the hypnotized title character in Trilby (1917). Clara married James Young, a prominent actor and director, and saw to it that her fame would help promote his career, even after the marriage faltered. The...
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