Captions

All photos are by courtesy of Jessie Salmon, except for lucysemon.jpg. That one comes from you, Steve! The optional photo BestCarlisle.jpg of the gouache painting is from Chester Prudhomme.

(motherat16.jpg) Della Pope, Lucille's mother, at 16.

(father.jpg) Frank White, Lucille's father.

(lucillemelbafriend.jpg) Lucille (center), her sister Melba (right) and a friend (c. 1907).

(Brains-and-Beauty-photo.jpg) This is probably the photo that made Lucille enter the movies (c. 1916).

(lucyandlarry.jpg) Lucille and Larry Semon in a candid from the Semon comedy The Simple Life (1919) of which only a five minute fragment is known to exist.

(lucysemon.jpg) Stage hand Larry Semon and supporting player courting an unnerved Lucille in The Stage Hand (1920).

(lucynose.jpg) Lucille after her nose operation (c. 1922) which lost her a part in the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

(voice.jpg) A later portrait of Lucille, now Lucille Millikin, the Voice of the Mothers of America.

(2tmsLucille.jpg) Lucille with her niece Lucille Johnson years before she would raise her (c. 1925).