Seven year old Alice Norberg (right) photographed with her friend Alaska Jorgenson on Kupreanof Island circa 1920.
In 1927, a 14-year-old girl named Alice Norberg left the fox farm in West Petersburg where she was raised and boarded a steamer to Seattle then a Greyhound bus to Hollywood to pursue a showbiz career. She eventually appeared in 32 movies during the 1930s and 40s.
This Friday, the Clausen Memorial Museum is screening one of her films, "The Invisible Ghost" (1941), starring Bela Lugosi, in an evening designed to bring Alice's story back to Petersburg's collective memory.
"People kind of forgot her from the history of Petersburg," said Clausen Museum Curator Anne Lee. "The old timers knew about h...
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