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Pages in category "American silent film actresses" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,144 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Theda Bara (/ ˈ θ iː d ə ˈ b ær ə / THEE-də BARR-ə; [1] born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols.
Norma Marie Talmadge [1] (May 2, 1894 – December 24, 1957) was an American actress and film producer of the silent era. A major box-office draw for more than a decade, her career reached a peak in the early 1920s, when she ranked among the most popular idols of the American screen.
Clara Gordon Bow (/ b oʊ /; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929.
Colleen Moore (born Kathleen Morrison; August 19, 1899 – January 25, 1988) [1] was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. [2] Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
Olive Thomas (born Oliva R. Duffy; [1] October 20, 1894 – September 10, 1920) was an American silent-film actress, art model, and photo model.. Thomas began her career as an illustrator's model in 1914, and moved on to the Ziegfeld Follies the following year.
Unfortunately the movie-going public did not accept a woman in the lead role of a western. Ride 'Em Cowgirl was released next, that same year, and fared even worse than the first. Later that same year, The Singing Cowgirl was released, [5] in which Page again starred with O'Brien. It would be the last film by Grand National Pictures, and ...
It turned Clara Bow from an up-and-coming movie actress into the biggest movie star of the 1920s who in the process became a film legend as a result of "It". The term "The It girl" has since entered the cultural lexicon. A scene from the film is included in the 1931 Paramount promotional compilation film The House That Shadows Built.