Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young (1890-1960) was a popular American actress and producer of the early silent film era. She was a prominent film star of Vitagraph Studios and later of World Film Corporation, but many of her films with Vitagraph are now lost. After a highly publicized affair with producer Lewis J. Selznick which resulted in her divorce from director James Young, Young and Selznick formed the Clara Kimball Young Film Corporation in 1916 of which she acted as the vice president and Selznick the president. She was the second film actress to create a namesake production company. After their romantic and professional relationship failed, Young created her own namesake production company, C.K.Y. Film Corporation, which operated from 1917-1919. She produced the 1918 film adaptation of “The Claw” by Cynthia Stockley as adapted by Winnifred Eaton Reeve. She quit producing in 1919 but continued to act until 1941.

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Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL). He is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia where he specialized in Indigenous and diasporic literature, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.

Cynthia Stockley

  • Born: 1873
  • Died: 1936
Cynthia Stockley (1873-1936), born Lillian Julian Webb, was a South African-Rhodesian novelist, journalist, and actress. She was born in Orange Free State in Southern Africa. Her parents were Irish and English, and she moved to England where she later died. She is the author of The Claw which was re-adapted for screen by Winnifred Reeve and released in 1927. The Claw was previously turned into a film in 1918. Six of her books were turned into films: Poppy (1917), The Claw (1918), Wild Honey (1922), Ponjola (1923), and The Claw (1927).

Winnifred Eaton

  • Born: August 21, 1875
  • Died: April 08, 1954
See the Biographical Timeline for biographical information on Winnifred Eaton.
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