Gertrude Olmstead
2 credits on HibingeTV
American actress of the silent era, born in 1897. She appeared in roughly fifty films between 1920 and 1929, often in leading-lady roles opposite stars such as Rudolph Valentino. Her best-remembered performance is as Mary Burton in Cobra (1925). She retired from the screen after marrying director Robert Z. Leonard in 1926.
Acted In
Drama, Romance
Rudolph Valentino plays an Italian count and big-game hunter who moves to New York to work for a friend's antiques firm and is drawn into an affair with his employer's wife, a predatory socialite played by Nita Naldi. The title refers to the cobra that mesmerizes its prey, a metaphor the film lays on heavily. Valentino is in his element as the charming, doomed lover, and Nita Naldi's vamp persona is given full rein. The film was one of Valentino's last releases before his death in 1926, and it is a late showcase for the star persona that made him a phenomenon. Published in 1925, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Drama · Romance · Silent
Cobra
1925 - as Mary Burton
Drama, Romance
A 1926 American silent romantic drama directed by Monta Bell, and the first American film starring Swedish actress Greta Garbo. Based on the novel Entre Naranjos by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, the film follows Leonora (Garbo), a peasant girl who falls in love with Don Rafael Brull (Ricardo Cortez), the son of landed Spanish aristocrats. His mother disapproves and dispossesses Leonora's family. Leonora goes to Paris and becomes a famous opera singer, while Rafael stays home and becomes engaged to another woman. When Leonora returns, Rafael saves her life during a flash flood and their passion reawakens — but duty and family intervene. Produced by Irving Thalberg for Cosmopolitan Pictures, the film launched Garbo's legendary Hollywood career.
Drama · Romance
Torrent
1926 - as Remedios