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Article: Who was the first Canadian movie star? D.W. Griffith, the Keystone Kops and the Canadian Connection.
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- June 1, 2004
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In his fulsome introduction in Maclean's (September 2003) to an excerpt from Kay Armatage's revisionist biography of the Victoria-born Nell Shipman, The Girl from God's Country: Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema, critic Brian D. Johnson claimed Shipman to be "Canada's first movie star." Johnson was not entirely accurate, however. Shipman was only a bit player in the history of Hollywood, never more than a starlet. Ten years prior to her appearence in Back to God's County, which was released in 1919, no less than three actresses could lay claim to the title of the first Canadian movie star, and, remarkably, they all appeared in films by D.W. Griffith, the legendary father ...
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