American silent screen star. Entered films with Vitagraph in Brooklyn at the age of sixteen. Romantically partnered on screen with Earle Williams. Had her own, short-lived production company with Louis B. Mayer around the time of her best-known film,
Virtuous Wives (1918). Under contract with First National from 1919. Remained a major draw card with movie audiences throughout the 1920s. Retired in 1928 with the advent of sound as one of the wealthiest women in Hollywood.