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The Sound of Silence: Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies
These three performers and thirteen others (Barbara Barondess, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Pauline Curley, Billie Dove, Edith Fellows, Rose Hobart, William Janney, Marcia Mae Jones, Barbara Kent, Anita Page, Lupita Tovar, and Barbara Weeks) reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition from silents to talkies. For the stage actors, sound film...more
Library Binding, 272 pages
Published
September 28th 1998
by McFarland & Company
(first published May 1993)
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Interviews with silent film players, mostly minor stars. More interesting in aggregate than individually. Patsy Ruth Miller’s favorite actresses were Norma and Nazimova, while Lina Basquette (who didn’t seem to get along with Hollywood people) thought Norma Talmadge and Mary Pickford were snobs. Interviews with Lew Ayres, William Blakewell, Lina Basquette, Madge Bellamy, Eleanor Boardman, Ethlyne Clair, Junior Coughlan, Joyce Compton, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Dorothy Gulliver, Maxine Elliott Hick...more
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This is an Excellent book for any silent movie fan. Those of us who've been addicted to the late night silent movie fests have seen many of these tragic ladies. Now we get to hear their stories. I could not stop turning the pages of this informative book.
A must-read for any movie fan!
A must-read for any movie fan!
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