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Nigel Barrie & Olive Thomas (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• B-59 said:

  Olive Thomas (October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920), American silent film actress and model. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Thomas See also comments under www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/11733331783/

• Art Siegel said:

  Though dressed as a New York Giant, this is an actor: "Nigel Barrie (5 February 1889, Calcutta, India – 8 October 1971, England) was an Indian-born British actor." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Barrie

• swanq said:

  See ithacamovies.proboards.com/thread/177 "The "Beatrice Fairfax" series tells the story of a fictional New York newspaper columnist who gets into trouble while trying to solve her readers' problems. In "Play Ball" Thomas plays the fiancee to actor Nigel Barrie's Bert Kerrigan, a baseball player who is kidnapped, along with Thomas, to prevent his participation at a baseball game. The film includes actual footage of the New York Giants and the New York Yankees at a polo field in New York City. Because of the rarity of the footage of these New York teams, this episode was donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY."

• Art Siegel said:

  I wonder if this series of baseball-related shots at the Polo Grounds was taken at the filming of "Play Ball." Looks like Grace Darling and Harry Fox, lead actors in the serial, were there, as well as these two. Not to mention the managers of the Yankees and Giants, who would never have met to play at the Polo Grounds unless it was the World Series.
  
  www.imdb.com/title/tt0201455/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
  
  LOC has a copy of the film: lccn.loc.gov/97518304
  
  "[Thomas'] first film role was in "PlayBall" in 1916, which was produced and directed by the Wharton Brothers here in Ithaca and in New York City for the International Film Company, owned by media mogul William Randolph Hearst."
  
  Hearst was also present in this series of pictures
  
  "The year 1916 brought more success with [Thomas'] first film role in "Beatrice Fairfax." She appeared in Episode 10, titled "Play Ball," which featured 18,000 baseball fans plus managers of the New York Yankees and New York Giants baseball teams. That year, she became the Yankees' official mascot.
  
  www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2010/09/26/Olive-Thom...

• Art Siegel said:

  OK, here it is, September 10, 1916, filming of a scene in the movie "Play Ball", concert by Nathan/Nahan Franko, and baseball game for charity: news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19160909&i...