Louise Lovely signed fan photo for Gladys reads 'To Gladys, with love and kindest thoughts, Louise Lovely, 1916'

The NFSA recently acquired two signed photographs of silent film star Louise Lovely and a letter of hers responding to a fan in 1916.

Louise Lovely (r) disguised as a man, sits by a stream with a pan in a scene from Jewelled Nights.

Camera crew filming Jewelled Nights with Louise Lovely.

Fox Films portrait of Louise Lovely.

Bettina Loved a Soldier wall advertisement

Library Officer Kerryn Poynter helped a client discover the identity of a silent-era actress she saw ... on the wall of a Tasmanian pub.