Philippe de Lacy

Born July 25, 1917
in Nancy, France

I have seen several versions of the spelling of Philippe's name. I am using
the version most often found on the back of vintage prints issued in the 1920s.

The Blue Boy, Romance Pictures Inc, 1926 Sarah and Son, 1930 The Marriage Playground, 1929.

Peter Pan, 1925 Philippe with Anita Louise and Frank Coghlan in Square Shoulders, 1929 Philippe de Lacy as Bobby Ashemore in Sara and Son Sarah and Son

The Marriage Playground Philippe with Ramon Navarro in The Student Prince in old Heidelberg, 1927 Philippe de Lacy 11 Omar the Tentmaker, 1922

Philippe de Lacy 13 Don Juan, Warner Brothers, 1926. This was Warner's first Vitaphone film, and ushered in the talkies. Joyce Coad with Philippe in The Magic Garden, 1927

The Magic Garden Sarah Padden with Philippe in Window Panes, a stage production. The Marriage Playground

Position your pointer over the image to see the name of the movie.

Image #11: The press release attached to the back of this print reads:

"At three and a half years, Philippe de Lacy is a vetran of the greatest war in history and an established movie actor. He was born in France, at Nancy during a German air raid that filled the air with bursting shells. Miss Edith de Lacy, an American nurse, found him beside his dead mother, cared for him, adopted him,brought him to this country, and, without difficulty, found him work in pictures. Little Philippe de Lacy furnishes a special charm in Without Benefit of Clergy, Rudard Kipling's first motion picture for Path production, which will be released sometime this month."

Image #13: The press release attached to the back of this print reads:

"Phillippe De Lacey gets a lesson in makeup from Mary Pickford, in whose new picture, "The Street Singer", he is making his screen bow. Phillippe was brought to America recently by Edith De Lacey, who during the war was a nurse in France and rescued this child from the cellar beneath his home which had been wrecked during a German air raid. The interested spectator is Ernst Lubitsch, Miss Pickford's director."
note: The press release is incorrect. Philippe had appeared in some 10 movies by this time. The Street Singer was renamed Rosita and released in 1923.

I would be an eager buyer of videos of most of Philippe's early films. I have an
excellent print of Love and a dubbed down print of Square Shoulders .
Bob@childfilmstars.com
What do you have to sell or trade?

Philippe deLacy in The Marriage Playground
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