Much material about or attributed to Norma concerns her early days at Vitagraph. The written material on the Talmadges is vast, but not deep, and largely repetitive. In 1914 Constance also became part of the Vitagraph Company stock company, often in comedies with Billy Quirk. Youngest sister Constance tagged along to the studio and worked as an extra. In films that are still readily available, she appears chiefly in ingenue parts, but the true scope of her early roles is still under investigation. Shortly thereafter she was given a permanent position in the stock company and was assigned to Van Dyke Brooke’s unit. She started playing bit parts, and by the end of 1910, she was taking leading roles and had a prominent part in Vitagraph’s three-reel special A Tale of Two Cities (1911).
Private Collection.Īccording to the 19 census, Norma Talmadge was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1894. The oldest of three daughters in a largely fatherless Brooklyn household, Norma broke into films at the Vitagraph Company studios in Flatbush, New York, in 1910, with no previous acting experience.
Norma Talmadge, She Loves and Lies (1920).
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