Constance Worth (Jocelyn Howarth of Sydney) as Lita gets the drop on Sheldon Leonard as Sometime Smith in Columbia’s 1943 western, Klondike Kate. Ten years before, she had taken the leading role in the Australian film The Squatter’s Daughter.
Thanks to…
My lecturers so long ago – Tom Ryan, Arthur Cantrill and Ken Mogg.
And special thanks to:
These groups on the net
- Australia’s Ozsilentfilmfestival
- Cinema and Theatre Historical Society of Australia
- Film Critics Circle of Australia
- John Culme Footlightnotes @ Instagram
- Theatre Heritage Australia Inc
- David Kilderry: Drive-Ins Downunder
- Screening the Past
- Garry Gillard: Australian Cinema
- Mark St Leon – The Penny Gaff. The Story of Circus in Australia.
- Tony Martin-Jones Film History Notes.
- Ozmovies
- Ozflicks – An Australian Film Site
- Dave Lord Heath – Another Nice Mess site devoted to the Hal Roach studio and films, also contains a special Australian-born actors page here
- Leann Richards : HAT-History of Australian Theatre
- Clay Djubal and others: The Australian Variety Theatre Archive: Popular Culture Archive, 1850-1930.
And these Individuals
- Sandra Joy Aguilar, Warner Bros Archives, University of Southern California regarding Mary Maguire
- Julie K Allen, Brigham Young University, regarding Saharet
- Melissa Anderson, regarding Lotus Thompson
- Norm Archibald, regarding Mary Maguire
- Richard Bradshaw, regarding Fred Stone
- Dianne Byrne, regarding Mary Magurie
- Sophie Church, Geelong Grammar School regarding Joan Lang
- Catherine Crocker, regarding Midas Martyn and the Pollards
- Simone Cubbin, regarding Mary Maguire
- Jane Cussen
- Bill Egan, regarding Daphne Pollard & Jolly John Larkins
- Jim Eldridge, regarding Saharet
- Lina Favrin, Yarra Libraries regarding the Pollards
- Katie Flack, State Library of Victoria.
- Claudia Funder, Australian Performing Arts Collection, Arts Centre Melbourne
- Alan Garner, regarding Norma Whalley
- William Gillespie regarding German representations of Australia
- Marguerite Gillezeau, Archivist at Ascham College regarding Shirley Ann Richards, and also Archivist at Redlands, Sydney Church of England Coeducational Grammar School regarding Anona Winn.
- Martin Goebel, regarding Saharet
- Robert Gott
- Dan Gulino, at radiowasbetter.com,
- Julie Hansen, regarding Shirley Ann Richards and the Garden School
- Prue Heath, Archivist, SCEGGS Darlinghurst regarding Nancy O’Neil
- Joe Henderson, National Archives in Kew, England
- Barry Humphries, regarding Saharet
- Joe Jordan, regarding The Desert Rats (1953)
- Elisabeth Kumm, at Theatre Heritage Australia
- Stephen Langley regarding Reita Nugent/Janet Lind
- Margaret Leask regarding Eileen Robinson
- Mark Lepp, regarding Saharet
- Elaine Marriner, at the Marriner Theatre Archive, Melbourne
- Robert Maynard regarding Willie Thomas and the Pollards
- Michael McCullough regarding Saharet
- Joyce Mostyn regarding Mary Maguire
- Jock Murphy, former Director of Collections at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne,
- Ingrid Purnell, editor
- Kate Rice, inaugural Frank Van Straten Fellow, Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne. See Performing the Past.
- Jean Ritsema, regarding Saharet, Wanda Radford, Leah Leichner, Dulcie and Ashley Cooper
- Sister Helen Salter, Loreto Convent in Brisbane, regarding Mary Maguire
- John Shrimski, regarding Maie Saqui
- Robbie Stockfeld
- Tony Tibballs, Cinema and Theatre Historical Society of Australia
- Patsy Trench, regarding her mother Nancy O’Neil. Her website is here.
- Mary Vanderfeen, regarding Saharet
- Trish Van Der Werff, regarding Shirley Ann Richards
- Dorothy Weekes, former Archivist at Academy of Mary Immaculate in Fitzroy, regarding Mary Maguire
- Jeffrey Weissman, regarding Hal Roach and Lotus Thompson
- Stephanie Welsh, regarding Jocelyn Howarth
- Libby White, regarding Barbara Smith and Lloyd Lamble
- John Armine Wodehouse, Earl of Kimberley regarding Mary Maguire
- Brenda Young, regarding Elsie Morris
- Charles Zhang, regarding Saharet
And these very useful texts that I often turn to
- Julie K Allen (2024) Screening Europe in Australasia: Transnational Silent Film Before and After the Rise of Hollywood. Exeter Studies in Film History. University of Exeter Press.
This book is on open access and can also be downloaded here : https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54077 - Stephen Alomes (1999) When London Calls. The expatriation of Australian creative artists to Britain. Cambridge University Press.
- Gillian Arrighi & Victor Emeljanow (Eds) (2014) Entertaining Children. The Participation of Youth in the Entertainment Industry. Palgrave Macmillan
- Kaz Cooke (2017) Ada. Comedian, Dancer, Fighter. Viking /Penguin. A fictional account of Ada Delroy’s life [funny, extremely well researched and valuable in the absence of interviews with so many early Australian performers.] Her website is here
- Peter Downes (2002) The Pollards. A family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880 -1910. Steele Roberts
- Ray Edmondson and Andrew Pike (1982) Australia’s Lost Films. National Library of Australia.
- Richard Lane (1994) The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama, 1923-1960. A History through Biography. Melb University Press
- Brian McFarlane (2003): The Encyclopedia of British Film. Methuen Publishing Ltd- BFI
- Kirsty Murray (2010) India Dark. Allen and Unwin. [A fictional work inspired by the Pollard Tour of India in 1909-1910.]
- Phillipe Mora, Peter Beilby, Scott Murray (eds) and others (1974-2001): Cinema Papers (Magazine) Cinema Papers P/L, Richmond, also MTV Publishing and Niche Media. See digitised collection at the University of Wollongong Archives
- John Parker (Ed) (1947) Who’s Who in the Theatre. A Biographical record of the contemporary stage. Tenth Edition. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd
- Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper (1980 & 1998): Australian film, 1900-1977 : a guide to feature film production. Oxford University Press.
- Hal Porter (1965) Stars of Australian Stage and Screen. Rigby Ltd
- Graham Shirley & Brian Adams (1989): Australian Cinema: The First Eighty Years. Currency Press
- Frank Van Straten (2003) Tivoli. Lothian Books
- J.P. Wearing (2013) The London Stage 1890–1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Rowman & Littlefield.
And companion volumes: The London Stage 1900–1909(2013), The London Stage 1910–1919 (2013), The London Stage 1920–1929 (2014), The London Stage 1930–1939 (2014), The London Stage 1940–1949 (2014) & The London Stage 1950–1959 (2014). - Andrée Wright (1986) Brilliant Careers; Women in Australian Cinema. Pan Books Australia.
- Adrian Wright (2020) Cheer Up! British Musical Films 1929-1945. The Boydell Press.
- Angela Woollacott, (2001). To try her fortune in London. Australian women, Colonialism and Modernity. Oxford University Press
- Angela Woollacott (2011) Race and the Modern Exotic. Three ‘Australian’ Women on Global Display. Monash University Publishing.
