Lizette Thorne

Biography

Birmingham delivered Lizette Thorne to the world on 24 November 1882, and by 1915 she was already haunting the flickering dark of nickelodeons—first as the desperate heroine of *The End of the Road*, then as the bruised-but-unbreakable lead in *The Bruiser*, and finally as the memory-walking dreamer in *A Dream or Two Ago*. The reels stopped turning, but she kept moving westward, trading England’s soot-streaked skies for California’s perpetual sunrise. Nearly nine decades after her first breath, she took her last in Los Angeles on 3 November 1970, leaving the Pacific to roll on without her.