Gene Gauntier
She remembered in her 1928 autobiography Blazing the Trail: “My funds were running low, and in a vague way I thought of the new opening for actors – moving pictures, but, like the rest of the legitimate profession, I looked on them with contempt and felt sure that my prestige would be lowered if I worked in them.[2] Gauntier then returned to stage acting as the lead female role in George Ade's The County Chairman at Kansas City's Grand Opera House.[2] Gauntier wrote and starred in many of the films her company produced, while Olcott is credited as the main director during this time.[2] In 1920 at age thirty-five, and after writing forty-two screenplays and performing in eighty-seven films, Gauntier walked away from the business.[citation needed] Gauntier had sailed to Europe frequently where her sister Marguerite was an opera singer who had trained and worked in Germany, and found herself stranded there when World War I broke out.After leaving filmmaking, she worked as the film and drama critic for the Kansas City Post in 1919,[5] before returning to live in Europe where she remained for a number of years while writing her autobiography, Blazing the Trail.The work was serialized in 1928–29 in the American magazine, Woman's Home Companion, and the manuscript is on display in the Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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