J WARREN KERRIGAN—SIGNED PHOTO—GAY SILENT STAR—COVERED WAGON

Description: Jack Warren Kerrigan (1879 – 1947) was a silent film actor and film director May 1917, Kerrigan was nearing the end of a four-month-long personal appearance publicity tour that had taken him across the United States and into Canada. At one of the final stops, a reporter for The Denver Times asked Kerrigan if he would be joining the war. Kerrigan replied: “I am not going to war. I will go, of course, if my country needs me, but I think that first they should take the great mass of men who aren't good for anything else, or are only good for the lower grades of work. Actors, musicians, great writers, artists of every kind—isn't it a pity when people are sacrificed who are capable of such things—of adding to the beauty of the world.” Picked up and reprinted in newspapers across the country, this statement stunned his fans and his popularity plummeted, never to fully recover. In the spring of 1924, after John Barrymore bowed out, Kerrigan was cast in the starring role in Captain Blood. While the film was a moderate success, critics were unmoved and Kerrigan found himself working less and less and in smaller roles. In December 1924, Kerrigan was injured in an automobile accident in Illinois. According to the Des Moines Tribune (page 1, Monday, December 8, 1924) his face was badly scarred and it was stated that "he may never star in films again (Family members later claimed in Behind the Screen (2001) by William J. Mann that his slump in popularity was more due to his living with his mother and partner James Vincent in the same house, and not having a business manager to overcome the negative publicity. Kerrigan lived with his domestic partner James Carroll Vincent — a fellow actor — from about 1914 until Kerrigan's death in 1947 from pneumonia at the age of 67. After Kerrigan's death, Vincent married Mitty Lee Turner (1894-1968) on October 24, 1947. But, on March 15, 1948, Vincent committed suicide by gas in his bedroom at 14716 Magnolia Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, nine months after the death of Kerrigan) CREDITS Calamity Anne's Inheritance Williams - the Mining Agent Calamity Anne's Vanity One of the Village Belle's Sweethearts Calamity Anne's Beauty The Handsome Young Drummer Woman's Honor Father Bob Her Big Story Joel Hammond - the Managing Editor 1913 Quicksands Frank Truth in the Wilderness Bruce Willard For the Flag Lieutenant Jack Bronson For the Crown Jacques le Grand Calamity Anne, Heroine Minor Role The Restless SpiritCalamity Anne's Inheritance Williams - the Mining Agent Calamity Anne's Vanity One of the Village Belle's Sweethearts Calamity Anne's Beauty The Handsome Young Drummer Woman's Honor Father Bob Her Big Story Joel Hammond - the Managing Editor Quicksands Frank Truth in the Wilderness Bruce Willard For the Flag Lieutenant Jack Bronson For the Crown Jacques le Grand Calamity Anne, Heroine Minor Role The Restless Spirit The Husband - the Restless Spirit The Girl and the Greaser Dave Lewis The Tale of the Ticker Tom Burns Back to Life Destiny's Victim Rory o' the Bogs Rory o' the Bogs 1914 Samson Samson 1915 The Stool Pigeon Walter Jason For Cash Arthen Owen The Oyster Dredger Jack, the Oyster Dredger The New Adventures of Terence O'Rourke Terence O'Rourke 1916 Langdon's Legacy Langdon The Pool of Flame Terence O'Rourke The Gay Lord Waring Lord Arthur Waring A Son of the Immortals Prince Alexis Delgrade The Silent Battle Tom Gallatin The Beckoning Trail Carter Raymond The Social Buccaneer Chattfield Bruce The Measure of a Man John Fairmeadow 1917 A Man's Man John Stuart Webster 1918 The Turn of a Card Jimmie Montgomery Farrell One Dollar Bid Toby A Burglar for a Night Kirk Marden Prisoners of the Pines Hillaire Latour Three X Gordon Harold Gordon 1919 The Drifters Burke Marston Come Again Smith Joe Smith The End of the Game Burke Allister The Best Man Cyril Gordon A White Man's Chance Donald Joseph Blenhorn The Lord Loves the Irish Miles Machree The Joyous Liar Burke Harlan 1920 Live Sparks Neil Sparks The Dream Cheater Brandon McShane A Man's Man John Stuart Webster Number 99 Arthur Penryn The Green Flame Frank Markham $30,000 John Trask The House of Whispers Spaulding Nelson The Coast of Opportunity Dick Bristow 1922 Night Life in Hollywood Himself Cameo 1923 The Covered Wagon Will Banion The Girl of the Golden West Ramerrez Mary of the Movies Himself Cameo Hollywood Himself Cameo The Man from Brodney's Hollingsworth Chase Thundering Dawn Jack Standish 1924 Captain Blood Captain Peter Blood (final film)

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