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...[[Paramount Pictures]]. The movie is a fictionalized Hollywood account of silent film star [[Pearl White]]'s rise to fame, starring [[Betty Hutton]] as Pear ...ises from amateur-night vaudeville to silent-screen stardom. The film also stars William Demarest, Frank Faylen, Constance Collier, Billy DeWolfe, and John

...o 1939 and then returned to summer stock. She never had a really happy off-screen life and her sudden death in 1958 was pronounced a [[suicide]].

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...is received top billing in his second movie, Garner actually has much more screen time.

St. John entered silent films around 1912 and soon rose to co-starring and starring roles in short ...movies, he pseudonymously directed his nephew Al as a comic leading man in silent and sound films such as the ''The Iron Mule'' (1925) and ''Bridge Wives'' (

| caption = ''Stars of the [[Photoplay]]'', 1930 ...for winning a magazine beauty competition in 1921, she appeared in several silent films before being offered her first leading role in Das Spielzeug von Pari

...n important role in creating and sustaining the public perception of which stars are viewed as attractive. These media industries are in turn sustained by a ...seen as a real sex symbol, [[Lillian Gish]] ('The First Lady of the Silent Screen') became the most popular actress of the era. [[Theda Bara]] and Pola Negri

...ilent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable (and highly-paid) stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut. ...3 and 1934 were not financial successes. She then retired permanently from screen acting.

...cing at the Metropolitan Theater in Los Angeles, which led to her making a screen test. ...'). She starred in 17 films from 1926 to 1929, and unlike many silent film stars, she made a successful transition to talking films.

...Burr Goodman ({{star}}July 29, 1885 - {{dag}}April 13, 1955), an American silent film actress. Movie executives made promotional claims that her stage name ...film actress Musidora, popularized the vamp persona in the early years of silent film and was soon imitated by rival actresses such as Nita Naldi and Pola N

| caption = Publicity photo of Anna May Wong from ''Stars of the Photoplay'', 1930 ...can actress to gain international recognition. Her varied career spanned [[silent film]], [[film|sound film]], [[television]], [[Broadway theatre|stage]], an

...ican actress and [[movie star]] who made the transition from [[silent film|silent films]] to [[sound film|sound films]]. ...unt Pictures]] and cast by director Herbert Brenon as Wendy Darling in his silent movie version of J. M. Barrie's ''Peter Pan'' (1924). There she starred wit

...e made a reported 336 films between 1910 and 1935, all but 9 of which were silent features. He was Hollywood’s first Western megastar and is noted as havin ...ndian village of lodges was ringed by miniature plaster mountains which on screen were said to be "ferociously convincing." The set also included a simulated

...4): [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Olivia-Hallinan/photos/browse/490b?b=20 Screen caps #20-37]. .../group/MovieTVSpanking011/ Spanking in Movies and Television part 11] The Silent Era

...], director, and producer, who became noted for his swashbuckling roles in silent movies such as ''The Mark of Zorro'' (1920), ''The Three Musketeers'' (1921 ...siness acumen raised him up to be the third highest paid. To curtail these stars' astronomical salaries, the large studios attempted to monopolize the distr

...[[WAMPAS|Western Association of Motion pictures]] as their [[WAMPAS]] Baby Stars in 1932. Her first major role was in the 1933 film ''College Humor'' with [ ...canteen. She was praised for her angelic looks, and Laemmle offered her a screen test. Though she passed the test and started doing extra work at Universal,

...can Film Institute]] ranked Garbo fifth on its list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. ...ping the long-reigning Lillian Gish. Other well-known Garbo films from the silent era are The ''Mysterious Lady'' (1928), ''The Single Standard'' (1929) and

...47) was an American film and stage actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was nicknamed "the Joy Girl", after playing the lead in the 1 ...e Joyce). Borden quickly became one of their most popular and highest-paid stars, earning a salary of $1,500 a week. She had starring roles in eleven films

...27, 1965) was an American actress and sex symbol, who rose to fame in the silent film era of the 1920s. Bow was renowned for her sexual magnetism and became ...tam and her only dress, the contest judges were impressed. After numerous screen tests, Bow was selected the winner. She won a part in Beyond the Rainbow (1