#SayTheirNames #SilentFilmEdition Rose Gibson - popcorn and red wine

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

#SayTheirNames #SilentFilmEdition Rose Gibson




  • 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
  • Created her own production company in 1920

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