Answered an ad for a Millers Brothers 101 Ranch ad for girl horse riders at 18 years old
Doubled for Helen Holmes in "The Hazards of Helen" film series
Wrote a one-reeler around standing on a team of horses while catching a rope dangling from a bridge then swinging from the horses onto a train as it came under the bridge. Kalem gave her a raise of $50 a week for it.
Made $15 a week in her first billed role in "Ranch Girls on a Rampage" 1912
Replaced Helen Holmes in "The Hazards of Helen" (1914-1917) after having to replace Holmes for two episodes while she was out sick
The Spencer Production company paid her $450 a week in 1921
Was Featured in the Standing Woman Race in the Second Los Angeles Rodeo in 1913
Performed her most dangerous stunt in "A Girl's Grit" in 1915 where she leaped from a train station roof onto a moving train
Being typed as a lady is the greatest misfortune possible to a motion picture actress. It limits your characterizations, confines you to play feminine sops and menaces and the public never highly approves of either. An impeccably dressed lady is always viewed with suspicion in real life and when you strut onto the screen with beautiful clothes and charming manners, the most naive of theatergoers senses immediately that you are in a position to do the hero no good. I earnestly want to get away from this. First, because I want to improve my career and professional life and, secondly because I am tired of being a clothes horse - a sort of hothouse orchid in a stand of wild flowers.
Took a job at a stock company against her parent's objection
Signed her Universal Studios contract wearing the dowdiest clothes with messy hair and smeared makeup when MGM was also courting her at the same time and Russell preferring MGM instead.
Refused to be placed in the Best Supporting Actress category when Columbia Pictures promoted her for a nomination in Picnic (1955)
Demanded $750 when acting on the New Jersey Theater when she was waking $42.50
Convinced Universal Studios to release her from her contract lamenting her naivete and lack of knowledge of the studio system
Easily repelled Louis B. Mayer from making a tentative pass at her
