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Silent film actors The following is a list of actors and actresses whose careers began in the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. This list includes international performers who were well known throughout the world, and those who may have only achieved a degree of success in their native countries.
Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery; October 29, 1918 – February 24, 2020), known as Baby Peggy, was an American child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian. She was the last surviving person with a substantial career in silent films.
B. Helen Badgley; Leah Baird; Nellie Bly Baker; Winnie Baldwin; Mabel Ballin; Gertrude Bambrick; Margaret Wood Bancroft; Tallulah Bankhead; Vilma Bánky; Theda Bara
Gloria Josephine Mae Swanson [1] (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She first achieved fame acting in dozens of silent films in the 1920s and was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, most famously for her 1950 turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, which earned her a Golden Globe Award.
Silent Film Actors from the United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. + American male silent film actors (1,250 P)
“Movie sets during the silent period were like noisy. Two movies were shooting at the same time,” he said referring to a "Babylon" scene. “But then when the sound came," Calva said, "the set ...
A massive pipe organ that underscored the drama and comedy of silent movies with live music in Detroit's ornate Hollywood Theatre nearly a century ago was dismantled into thousands of pieces and ...
In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton. [119] Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton "looked like their caricatures". [120]