About

Sophia D’Aurelio is a writer and researcher on classical Hollywood cinema, among other things, with a special affinity for silent film, the pre-Code era (1930-1934), and the obscure actresses within. She runs a ‘general’ film history blog, Vitaphone Zone, and a website dedicated to Jean Harlow, Harlow Heaven.

She first discovered Adrienne Doré at the age of nineteen, when she realized during a pre-Code movie binge that the saucy flapper from The Wild Party had made her way to Joan Blondell’s side in The Famous Ferguson Case, and that there was virtually no biographical information on the actress available. She made the connection from Elizabeth Himmelsbach to Adrienne Doré after juxtaposing census, studio, hospital, and funeral home records with newspaper articles during her initial research, and a few years later, counts herself lucky and proud to still have Adrienne ephemera coming out of her ears.