Jean Vachon was a motion picture actress whose career began in the silent film

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 era. She was the daughter of Mrs. Rosemary Vachon of Los Angeles California.

Vachon is in the cast of For Sale (1924). Others actors in the movie are Tully Marshall

Tully Marshall

William Phillips was an American character actor known as Tully Marshall, with nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience behind before he made his first film appearance in 1914.-Career:...

, Vera Reynolds

Vera Reynolds

-Early life and career:Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1899, she started out as a dancer, worked as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and became a leading lady in silent motion pictures. Among her film credits are starring roles in Sam Wood's Prodigal Daughters , and Cecil B...

, Christine Mayo

Christine Mayo

Christine Mayo was a silent film actress whose Hollywood career spanned the years from 1915–1924. She was featured in vampire roles produced by Fox Film Corporation, Metro Pictures, World Film Corporation,and Ivan Film Productions, Inc...

, and Claire Windsor

Claire Windsor

Claire Windsor was a notable American film actress of the silent screen era.-Early life:Windsor was born Clara Viola Cronk in 1892 to George Edwin and Rosella R. Fearing Cronk in Marvin, Phillips County, Kansas of Scandinavian heritage. Her parents later moved to Cawker City, Kansas when she was...

. The photoplay

Photoplay

Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded a similar magazine entitled Motion Picture Story...

 depicts the life of the very rich. The setting shifts from New York City

New York City

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, to Paris, France, and then returns to New York. In 1927 Vachon portrayed a maid servant in Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is an American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor. A silent film, Two Arabian Knights was produced by Howard Hughes and was distributed by United Artists.-Plot:...

.

She became engaged to Nate "Chase" Watt, unit business manager for the Caddo Film Company at the Metropolitan Studios., in June 1928. Watt was promoted from assistant director only a few days earlier. At the time of the couple's engagement Watt was working with Thomas Meighan

Thomas Meighan

Thomas Meighan was an American actor of silent films and early talkies. He played several leading man roles opposite popular actresses of the day including Mary Pickford and Gloria Swanson. At one point he commanded $10,000 a week....

 on a new feature film.
He met Vachon when she first began making films. Their wedding was performed at St. Basil's Church, Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard

Wilshire Boulevard is one of the principal east-west arterial roads in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was named for Henry Gaylord Wilshire , an Ohio native who made and lost fortunes in real estate, farming, and gold mining. Henry Wilshire initiated what was to become Wilshire...

and Harvard Boulevard, in Los Angeles.