Biography

Penrhyn Stanlaws was born on March 19, 1877 in Dundee, Scotland, UK. He was a director, known for Pink Gods (1922), Singed Wings (1922) and At the End of the World (1921). He was married to Jean Pughsley. He died on May 20, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Attended Princeton.

Was reported to have died in his Los Angeles studio after falling asleep while smoking in a chair.

After his last film was released, he burned all his bridges with the film colony by penning an eight-page article for the January, 1923 issue of Screenland magazine titled "What's the Matter With Our Hollywood Women?" In it, he raked many of the era's most popular actresses over the coals for their most minor physical imperfections. He said that most Hollywood actresses had too-short legs, claiming that the length of a properly proportioned woman's legs from the soles of her feet to the base of her pelvic bone should be the same as the length from the base of her pelvic bone to the top of her head, but that most movie stars' midpoints were at their waistlines. He also claimed that a properly proportioned woman should be "seven-and-a-half heads high" but that most Hollywood actresses were only about six heads high. And he insulted the shapes and sizes of their heads, eyes, mouths, necks, hands, breasts, hips, etc. A typical assessment: "Betty Blythe has been heralded as the modern Venus. But her figure is muscle-bound in the hips. She has poor hands. The chin is too small for the face. The underlip and chin recede pronouncedly and she has horse nostrils".

Turn-of-the century illustrator; among his models were Mabel Normand, Olive Thomas, and Florence La Badie prior to their movie careers.