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Silent Star of the Month In the beginning, films were silent. What early filmmakers lacked in sound, they made up with creative and artistic techniques. And it all ended with a jazz singer in the Jazz Age, but the output that survives from the silent period is astonishing, both in quantity and in content. Unfortunately, the new generations are unacquainted with the great pictures and the great ...

MABEL NORMAND HOME PAGE Welcome to the Website Dedicated to Silent Films' Greatest Comedienne! ANNOUNCEMENTS New Archives section added. Mabel Normand: A Source Book to Her Life and Films, the Revised Edition, by yours truly, WiIliam Thomas Sherman, is now available, on a subscrition bases from Cinema Books. For details write or call: Cinema Books 4753 Roosevelt Way N.E. Seattle, WA 98105, ...

Silent Star of June 1996 Tod Browning The film legacy of Charles Albert Tod Browning in the public mind has been stripped down to two films: Dracula (1931) and Freaks (1932). Lesser known is Browning's beginnings in the silent era, as a stock player in nickelodeon melodramas, to Griffith cast member, and director of the greatest character player ever, Lon Chaney. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, ...

Nell Shipman was one of the most fascinating pioneer filmmakers of the early Twentieth Century. She was a director, writer, producer and star of both Hollywood and her own independent films.

Lest you forget . . . . Special Ladies I have a definite facination with the four ladies presented here. I collect books and stuff and get the movies whenever I can find them. A confession -- I met them for the first time in that awful book (Hollywood Babylon) as creatures of scandal. But I looked at the faces and I wanted to know about them. Some of them didn't last long enough to become major ...

Silent Star of May 1996 Theda Bara This month's Silent Star of the Month profile on Theda Bara comes courtesy of Eve Golden, author of the recently published Vamp: The Rise and Fall of Theda Bara, Emprise Publishing Company, Vestal, New York. Theda Bara -- one of the most successful and glamorous stars of the 1910s -- is also the most inaccessible and mysterious today. She stood behind only Mary ...

Silent movie cowboy actor Fred Thomson rivaled Tom Mix in popularity, but he died tragically at the age of 38 just before the Talkies arrived. He was billed as 'The World's Greatest Western Star'. Included are books and videos & DVDs and posters about his life & films.

Silent Stars Dedicated to the Stars of The Silent Screen Welcome to my silent movie star site featuring biographys, filmographys and photo gallerys of my favorite silent movie stars, some famous, some not so famous. I will be adding new material on a regular basis so please drop by again .Please take time to sign my guestbook and feel free to e mail me with any ideas you think may improve my ...