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Silent lives : 100 biographies of the silent film era / by Lon Davis.
- Title
- Silent lives : 100 biographies of the silent film era / by Lon Davis.
- Author
- Davis, Lon, 1959-
- Publication
- Albany, Ga. : BearManor Media, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PN1998.2 .D376 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 411 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Book Description: A truly delightful, interesting and informative volume - with a nice (and very mixed) choice of subjects." Anthony Slide Silent Lives contains 100 biographical sketches of the great--and near great--of the silent film era. Each vividly written profile is illustrated by exquisite photographs, many of which have not been seen in decades. Kevin Brownlow (who provides the foreword) says: "If you ever wondered who created the movies, this fascinating book will provide the answer."
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies – Dictionaries
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-403) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Cast -- (In order of appearance) -- G M Anderson -- Roscoe Arbuckle -- Theda Bara -- Lionel Barrymore -- Ethel Barrymore -- John Barrymore -- Richard Barthelmess -- Beverly Bayne -- Billy Bevan -- G W Bitzer -- Clara Bow -- Betty Bronson -- Louise Brooks -- Tod Browning -- Clyde Bruckman -- John Bunny -- Francis X Bushman -- Eric Campbell -- Lon Chaney -- Sydney Chaplin -- Charlie Chaplin -- Charley Chase -- Andy Clyde -- Chester Conklin -- Jackie Coogan -- Joan Crawford -- Donald Crisp -- Karl Dane -- Marion Davies -- Cecil B DeMille -- Carol Dempster -- Marie Dressler -- Thomas Edison -- Douglas Fairbanks -- Geraldine Farrar -- Felix the Cat -- W C Fields -- Greta Garbo -- John Gilbert -- Dorothy Gish -- Lillian Gish -- D W Griffith -- William Haines -- Neil Hamilton -- Oliver Hardy -- William S Hart -- Jean Hersholt -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Harry Houdini -- Thomas Ince -- Al Jolson -- Buster Keaton -- Harry Langdon -- Stan Laurel -- Florence Lawrence -- Paul Leni -- Harold Lloyd -- Babe London -- Del Lord -- Marion Mack -- Mary MacLaren -- Georges Melies -- Model T Ford -- Antonio Moreno -- F W Murnau -- Fred Niblo -- Mabel Normand -- Ramon Novarro -- Willis O'Brien -- Our Gang -- Olga Petrova -- Mary Pickford -- Edwin S Porter -- Edna Purviance -- Jobyna Ralston -- Wallace Reid -- Rin-Tin-Tin -- Hal Roach -- Will Rogers -- Malcolm St Clair -- Larry Semon -- Mack Sennett -- Norma Shearer -- Ford Sterling -- Erich von Stroheim -- Gloria Swanson -- Norma Talmadge -- Constance Talmadge -- Natalie Talmadge -- Wm Desmond Taylor -- Irving Thalberg -- Ben Turpin -- Rudolph Valentino -- King Vidor -- H M Walker -- Henry B Walthall -- Lois Weber -- Billy West -- Pearl White -- Adolph Zukor -- General information -- About the author.
- ISBN
- 9781593931247 (alk. paper)
- 1593932022 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008004798
- OCLC
- 191763371
- SCSB-12434948
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library