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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.
Marie Prevost (born Mary Bickford Dunn; November 8, 1896 [1] – January 21, 1937) was a Canadian-born film actress. During her 20-year career, she made 121 silent and sound films. Prevost began her career during the silent film era. She was discovered by Mack Sennett who signed her to contract and made her one of his "Bathing Beauties" in the ...
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.
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.
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]
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 ...
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.