The Glass House Girl - UI #164

Useless Information Podcast

Airwave Media Podcast Network

History, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing in silent movies for Paramount Studios. While she never became a movie star, Edna drew large crowds in nearly every town that she visited. That’s because Edna Kirby lived in a glass house. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.1	Beginning in the early 1920s, Edna Kirby spent more than a decade in Hollywood appearing
1:08.6	in a long list of silent movies for Paramount Studios.
1:13.1	She worked with many of the greats of the day, including Harold Lloyd, Betty Thompson,
1:16.9	BB Daniels, Wallace Beary, Maurice Chavier, Claudette Colbert, Joan Bennett, and Spencer
1:22.2	Tracy.
1:24.4	And while Edna Kirby would never become what we consider a movie star, you know the fame,
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