sentences:  In 1924, at the age of fourteen, Ricksen was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars; a promotional campaign sponsored by the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers in the United States, which honored thirteen young women each year who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.Other actresses named that year included Dorothy Mackaill and Clara Bow.While filming the Del Andrews directed comedy "The Galloping Fish" in 1924 opposite Sydney Chaplin and Louise Fazenda (in which she portrayed the role of the wife of the lead character), Ricksen became ill. She had appeared in prominent roles in ten films that year, including the popular drama "The Painted Lady" opposite George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill.