Silver Voices: Alice Terry Interview (1958)

Interview conducted by George Pratt. Photo courtesy Stills, Posters, and Paper Collections/George Eastman Museum 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:29 Looking at Stills – Discussion of photo subjects: Ralph Barton, Emmett Flynn, John Ford, Peter Lorre, Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Irving Thalberg 00:05:30 Career – THE GREAT DIVIDE (1925): negotiating her salary with MGM and working with Reginald Barker 00:09:45 Early Career – Meeting husband, filmmaker Rex Ingram 00:12:25 Early Career – THE FOUR HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921) and working with Rudolph Valentino, 00:17:20 Early Career – THE CONQUERING POWER (1921) and passing up role in THE SHEIK (1921) 00:21:10 Early Career – THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (1922): working with Ramon Novarro and marrying Ingram during production 00:23:45 Ingram’s Career -- TRIFLING WOMEN (1922), stories of production and Ingram working with Barbara La Marr 00:28:50 Career -- WHERE THE PAVEMENT END (1923) 00:32:58 Career -- SCARAMOUCHE (1923) 00:38:30 Career -- THE ARAB (1924), Dark hair, filming in North Africa with Ingram 00:42:00 Career – MARE NOSTRUM (1926), filming of aquarium scene 00:51:20 Career – THE MAGICIAN (1926), THE GARDEN OF ALLAH (1927), Ingram’s production style 00:59:50 Late Career – Co-directing BAROUD (1932) with Ingram 01:04:00 Ingram’s Career – Early days at Universal Studios and anecdotes from their working life together The Silver Voices Project, which allowed for digitization and sharing of this archival audio, was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, grant number MA-30-19-0681-19. Generous support for the introductions provided by Art Bridges, and made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this audio do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Library Sciences or the National Endowment for the Humanities.