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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.
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.
Amabel Ethelreid Normand (November 9, 1893 [1] [2] – February 23, 1930), better known as Mabel Normand, was an American silent film actress, director and screenwriter. She was a popular star and collaborator of Mack Sennett in their Keystone Studios films, [3] and at the height of her career in the late 1910s and early 1920s had her own film studio and production company, [4] the Mabel ...
Olive Mary Borden (July 14, 1907 – October 1, 1947) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. [1] She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", [2] after playing the lead in the 1927 film of that same title. [3]
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.
Gladys Louise Smith (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979), known professionally as Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress, producer, screenwriter and film studio founder. A pioneer in the American film industry with a Hollywood career that spanned five decades, Pickford was one of the most popular actresses of the silent film era ...