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Mildred Davis

On Saturday February 10, 1923, she married Harold Lloyd. After their marriage Lloyd (possibly fearful of becoming a shadow to his wife's career) announced that Davis would not appear in any more motion pictures.

By this time, however, her momentum as a leading lady was lost and her career never regained the prestige that many believed it could have had.

Adele De Garde: A (sadly, very) Brief Biography

A child star and a longtime member of director D.W. Griffith's Biograph stock players, De Garde was a familiar face to movie audiences of the early 'teens, first appearing with Florence Lawrence in Griffith's 1908 short comedy, "The Christmas Burglars," when she was just 8 years old.

Along with fellow Griffith child actors John Tansey and Gladys Egan, Adele continued to work for Biograph, making approximately 50 more features and shorts over the next four years. In 1911 De Garde moved to Vitagraph where she would remain for the rest of her career, making another 63 films.

By 1918, however , a time when some stars were just starting their careers, Adele De Garde was closing in on the end of hers.

In 1917, she had received rave reviews for her performance in "Within the Law:"

•Variety: "Adele DeGarde as Aggie Lynch, which in reality is nothing more than a comedy foil for the lead, had something on the star, judging from the impression she left on the minds of the audience."

•Moving Picture World: "Adele DeGarde as Aggie Lynch must be credited with one of the best performances in the picture. In a character easy to overplay she strikes just the right note, and her amusing unmorality is always without offense." The article below, from Motion Picture Magazine, May 1918, notes Adele's success with "Within the Law," and goes on to predict her a future star. In truth, however, De Garde would wrap up her career in 1918 with "The Enchanted Profile" (originally titled "The Girl and the Graft"), based on an O. Henry story.

Little-known and rarely mentioned today, Adele De Garde seems to have disappeared without a trace. According to Wikipedia, the last public appearance she made was in 1939 at Ohrbach's department store in New York for an "Old Home Week" along with other silent stars. The article, quoting an AP wire report in the Reno Evening Gazette, claims that by then Adele was a housewife with five children.

There are two pictures of her in the Photo Album: One from the Kromo Gravure set, and one from a set of "Vitagraph Players" postcards.

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