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Dorothy Gibson
Gibson, in a 1911 publicity photo
Born
Dorothy Winifred BrownMay 17, 1889 (1889-05-17) Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Died
February 17, 1946 (aged56) Paris, France
Occupation
Actress, singer and model
Active years
1906 – 1917
Dorothy Gibson (May 17, 1889 February 17, 1946) was an American pioneer of silent film actress, artist's model and singer active in the 20th century. She is best remembered as a survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
Biography
Life and career
Daughter John A. and Pauline Boesen Brown, Winifred Brown Dorothy Gibson was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. His father died when she was three and his mother remarried John Leonard Gibson. Between 1906 and 1911, she appeared on stage as a singer and dancer in a series of theatrical productions and vaudeville, the most important in the Broadway Charles Frohman's musical Milk (1907). He was also a chorister regular shows produced by the Shubert brothers, the Hippodrome Theater.
Dorothy Gibson, as illustrated by Harrison Fisher, 1911
In 1909, the year before marrying George Battier, Jr., Gibson began to pose for the famous commercial artist Harrison Fisher, becoming one of his favorite models. Her image appeared regularly on posters, postcards, merchandising products and several illustrations of books over the next three years. Fisher also often chose his likeness for the cover of the best selling magazines like Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. Gibson was widely disseminated during this time as "The Original Harrison Fisher Girl".
Meanwhile, Gibson, separated from Battier, though the couple did not divorce until about 1916.
Film Career
Represented by top theatrical agent Pat Casey, Gibson entered films in early 1911, joining The Independent Motion Picture Company (IMP) as an extra and later the Lubin studios as a player exchange. He was hired as the star of the new U.S. office based Studios lair in Paris in July 1911. She was an instant hit with the public, becoming one of the top actresses in the new medium of film to be promoted as a "star" in their own right. Praised by his natural style, subtle acting was particularly effective as a comedian on popular shows such as Miss winders Masquerade (1911) and Love finds a way (1912), all of which were produced in Fort Lee, New Jersey, then the center of the burgeoning film industry U.S..
Lamar Johnstone Dorothy Gibson in a scene from the comedy, The Lucky Hold Up (1912)
Despite its popularity in comedies, one of its parts important was that of Molly Pitcher in the historical drama, Hands Across the Sea (1911), Eclair debut vehicle and turn the first star. One of Gibson's role more screen famous was the bran itself on the Titanic (1912), based on her experiences in the disaster of legend. Saved from the Titanic, released a month after the sinking, was the first of many films about the event.
Dorothy Gibson in a promotional picture for Saved from the Titanic (1912)
The Titanic is the best known aspect Gibson's life. After six weeks of vacation in Italy with her mother, she returned aboard the Titanic to make a new series of photos for Fort Eclair Lee. The women had been playing bridge with friends in the room the night of the ship's fatal collision with the iceberg. With two of his playmates escaped in the lifeboat first launched. After arriving in New York on the rescue ship Carpathia, Gibson was persuaded by his manager to appear in a film based in the sinking. She not only acted in the drama of reel, but wrote the screenplay. He also appeared in the same clothes he had brought aboard the Titanic with a white silk evening dress covered with a jacket and a polo coat.
Although saved from the Titanic was a huge success in the U.S., Britain and France, only known prints were destroyed by fire in 1914 in studies lair. The loss of the film is considered by film historians as one of the largest of the silent era. Gibson's other achievements in cinema including early protagonist of one of the first feature films made in the USA (Hands Across the Sea, 1911), co-star in the first American play produced in series or chapter (Revenge of the Silk Masks, 1912), and make an early public appearances always film personality (January 1912).
With contemporary Mary Pickford, Gibson was the highest paid actress in the world at the time of his premature retirement in May 1912. In a brief but … (and so on) For more information, please visit some products on the old gold jewelry, plastic bead necklace,. Round Faux Leather Rack wine products should show more here!
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