Beverly Bayne walked into Chicago’s Essanay Studios when she was 16 years old and immediately turned heads with her big brown eyes and soft, dark hair. She became a pioneering silent film star of the 1910s, forming a popular romantic duo with matinee idol Francis X. Bushman – most notably in 1916’s Romeo and Juliet. Their onscreen chemistry was real. The couple married in 1918, but it begot scandal as Bushman had been divorced from his previous wife for only three weeks. Bayne’s film career subsequently waned, she and Bushman divorced in 1925 and Bayne turned from the screen to the theater. This print captures Bayne in an upright pose. She holds an over-sized opened floral parasol. Bayne’s gaze is directed over her right shoulder with an air of wistfulness.