- Appeared in 1915 as an extra in several films for the Essannay Film Company at their studio in Chicago. She landed the gig haphazardly while working on a story for the Chicago Tribune. She had so much fun doing extra work that she kept missing work and the Tribune fired her. However, the studio kept her employed for the next six months, and by the end of her time there, she was making $12 a day.
- Distant relative of American frontiersman Daniel Boone.
- According to authors Michael Corcoran and Arnie Bernstein, Porter appeared in several films at Essenay alongside Gloria Swanson who was just breaking into films as a teenager at the time.
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