“Agile Woman in Fun Films.” Motography, July 24, 1917, p. 130.
“Alice Howell, A Wholesome Gloom-chaser.” unidentified source.
“Alice Howell Ascending Comedy Star.” Moving Picture World, June 23, 1917, p. 1960.
“Alice Howell Comedies Are Making Good.” Motion Picture News, June 23, 1917, p. 3912.
“Alice Howell Directed by Blystone in Century Comedies.” Motion Picture News, June 2, 1917, p. 3448.
“Alice Howell in New Comedies.” Moving Picture World, May 19, 1917, p. 1135.
“Alice Howell, L-Ko Comedienne.” Moving Picture World, March 2, 1918, p. 1215.
“Alice Howell Not Afraid of Getting Bruised.” Motography, November 17, 1917, p. 1046.
“Alice Howell Overcame Obstacles.” Motion Picture News, March 2, 1918, p. 1290.
“Alice Howell Pictures To Be Known as Century Comedies.” Motion Picture News, May 26, 1917, p. 3282.
“Alice Howell, Star.” Motion Picture News, May 19, 1917, p. 3140.
“Alice Howell To Do Series for Emerald.” Motion Picture News, February 7, 1920, p. 1498.
“Alice Howell without Make-Up.” Moving Picture World, December 15, 1917, p. 1625.
“Alice in Society.” L-Ko Komedy News, November 4, 1916, p. 1.
Atkins, Irene Kahn. Yvonne Stevens Oral History. August 4, 1980.
Brown, Beth. “Making Movies for Women.” Moving Picture World, March 26, 1927, p. 342.
Burrows, Jon. “Near Broke, But No Tramp: Billie Ritchie, Charlie Chaplin and ‘That Costume.’” Early Popular Visual Culture, August 2010, pp. 247–62.
“Century Comedies.” Motography, June 2, 1917, p. 1140.
“Century Comedies.” Moving Picture World, September 8, 1917, p. 1557.
“Century Comedies Gain Attention.” Moving Picture World, July 14, 1917, p. 263.
“Century Follies Girls Group Enlists Yvonne Howell.” Universal Weekly, September 27, 1924, p. 22.
Chic, Mlle. “Alice Howell—Funniest Woman in Pictures.” Moving Picture Weekly, date unknown, p. 31.
Dean, Daisy. “News Notes from Movieland.” El Paso Herald, November 23, 1917, p. 7. [The same story also appears under the title “Alice Howell Hailed as the Female Chaplin of the Screen” in the Lima (OH) News, December 16, 1917, p. 4.]
Eckhardt, Joseph P. Living Large: Wilna Hervey and Nan Mason. Woodstock, NY: Woodstock Arts, 2015.
“Emerald Signs Alice Howell.” Variety, December 12, 1919, p. 47.
“Expletives!” Motion Picture Magazine, March 1920, p. 29.
“First Alice Howell’s Comedies Ready.” Motion Picture News, November 13, 1920, p. 3719.
Foote, Lisle. Buster Keaton’s Crew: The Team behind His Silent Films. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.
“The Funniest Woman in Pictures.” Pictures and the Picturegoer, June 16, 1917, p. 11.
“Funny Alice Howell Won’t Wear Any Borrowed Plumage.” Los Angeles Evening Express, September 29, 1917, clipping in the possession of the family.
“Henry M. Lehrman.” Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1915.
“Honest, These Girl Comediennes of the Screen Are Pretty When They’re Not on the Movie Screen.” Los Angeles Times, November 4, 1917, p. R04.
“Howell, Alice.” Moving Picture World, September 29, 1917, p. 1994.
“Inside Stuff on Pictures.” Variety, October 1, 1924, p. 19.
“Katrinka of the Cinema.” Motion Picture Magazine, December 1920, p. 73.
King, Rob. The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Lahue, Kalton C., and Terry Brewer. Kops and Custards: The Legend of Keystone Films. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968.
Lahue, Kalton C., and Sam Gill. Clown Princes and Court Jesters. South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes, 1970.
Lee, Carol. “Oddities of Screen Makeup.” Motion Picture Magazine, May 1917, pp. 33–36.
“Look Ahead for a Comedy Year.” Exhibitor’s Trade Review, August 16, 1924, p. 28.
“Lunatics and Politics Making at Emerald Studio.” Moving Picture World, June 26, 1920, p. 1742.
MacNeil, Anne. Music and Women of the Commedia dell’Arte. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Massa, Steve. Lame Brains & Lunatics: The Good, The Bad, and The Forgotten of Silent Comedy. Albany, GA: BearManor Media, 2013.
Mitchell, Glenn. A-Z of Silent Film Comedy. London: B. T. Batsford, 1998.
Moss, Marilyn Ann. Giant: George Stevens, a Life on Film. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.
“New Comedy Brand Ready for Distribution.” Motion Picture News, May 12, 1917, p. 2996.
“Quick Watson, The Needles!” pp. 24–25.
Roots, James. The 100 Greatest Silent Film Comedians. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Sennett, Mack. “Exceeding the Speed Limit.” New York Dramatic Mirror, June 9, 1915, p. 23.
“She’s a Rough Girl.” Photoplay, August 1917, p. 133.
Slide, Anthony. “Alice Howell.” In Eccentrics of Comedy. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998, pp. 75–79.
———. “Comediennes of the ’Teens.” In Aspects of American Film History prior to 1920. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978.
———. “Comediennes of the ’Teens.” Museum of Modern Art program note, May 29, 1977.
Steuart, Betsy. “It’s Not John & Liz But George Stevens & His Liz Who Are D.C.’s First Film Family.” People, February 13, 1978, pp. 76–78.
Talmadge, Constance. “The Tragedy of Being Funny.” Motion Picture Magazine, August 1927, pp. 54–55, 102.
Talmadge, Norma. “How Men Strike Me,” Photo-Play Journal, March 1919, p. 9.
Turner, George. Yvonne Stevens Oral History. November 16, 1994.
“Universal Announces April Comedies.” Motion Picture News, April 19, 1924, p. 1775.
Wagner, Kristen Anderson. “Have Women a Sense of Humor?: Comedy and Femininity in Early Twentieth-Century Film.” Velvet Light Trap, Fall 2011, pp. 35–46.
“Wide Publicity Campaign for Howell Comedies.” Motion Picture News, August 25, 1917, p. 1208.