Blanche Sweet(1896-1986)

In 1984 she helped a friend, producer Thomas R. Bond II, re-establish The Biograph Co., aka American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., which is the oldest movie company in the US, having been established in 1895.

[on D.W. Griffith] When I first met him, I wasn't impressed. I didn't know. I was feeling my way around. We were all learning. It wasn't just Griffith. They didn't know what they were doing, exactly. They were trying, and a lot failed, and a lot succeeded. It took a year of working with him before I suddenly realized, 'Hey, he's pretty good, you know".