Before dialogue became the heart of cinema, silent film stars captured audiences through expression, presence, and pure screen charisma. The 1920s were a golden era for these performers, who became ...

The early dawn of the silver screen represented a lawless, wildly creative era in which the foundational rules of global celebrity were invented from scratch. During the 1910s and 1920s, a highly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gloria Swanson stars in Erich von Stroheim's "Queen Kelly" (1929). (S.F. Silent Film Festival) After two years at other venues as ...