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April 16, 1916
The Daily Ardmoreite
Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma
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Three teenage actresses, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Miriam Cooper, earn over $100,000 combined annually for leading roles in D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation,' highlighting the lucrative opportunities in early cinema.
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Aladdin's Lamp Not In It With the Camera
Here Is a Trio of "Movie Girls" In "The Birth of a Nation" Whose Combined Salaries Run Up to Considerably Over $100,000 a Year and None Is Out of Her Teens.
MAE MARSH
Before the moving pictures came this might have seemed to make the Arabian nights look a fairy story. At present it is just a reporter's notebook sketch of actual events, and there is a sordid sound of money in it.
Think of three girls still in their teens who are piling up annual incomes of over $100,000 in the aggregate. The girls are Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Miriam Cooper, who play the feminine leads in D. W. Griffith's epoch making spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation."
Here Is a Trio of "Movie Girls" In "The Birth of a Nation" Whose Combined Salaries Run Up to Considerably Over $100,000 a Year and None Is Out of Her Teens.
MAE MARSH
Before the moving pictures came this might have seemed to make the Arabian nights look a fairy story. At present it is just a reporter's notebook sketch of actual events, and there is a sordid sound of money in it.
Think of three girls still in their teens who are piling up annual incomes of over $100,000 in the aggregate. The girls are Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Miriam Cooper, who play the feminine leads in D. W. Griffith's epoch making spectacle, "The Birth of a Nation."
What sub-type of article is it?
Biography
Personal Triumph
Prodigy
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Fortune Reversal
What keywords are associated?
Teen Actresses
High Salaries
Birth Of A Nation
Movie Stars
D W Griffith
What entities or persons were involved?
Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Miriam Cooper
D. W. Griffith
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Lillian Gish
Mae Marsh
Miriam Cooper
D. W. Griffith
Story Details
Three teenage girls, Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, and Miriam Cooper, achieve remarkable financial success with combined annual salaries exceeding $100,000 for their leading roles in D.W. Griffith's film 'The Birth of a Nation.'