During Hollywood’s Silent Era, few child stars reached the heights of fame as quickly as Baby Peggy. While Jackie Coogan charmed audiences in The Kid (1921) and Shirley Temple later defined child ...

Clara Bow's rich filmography includes some of the best silent films of the 1920s, including Dancing Mothers and Mantrap.

The simple, silent films had grown into an art form ... Hollywood stars and one of the industry's toughest negotiators. Mary Pickford was in a position to make a lot of money.

Mary Pickford reached unprecedented heights of ... Talkies had arrived, and by 1930 silent film would be a dead medium. Pickford attempted a talkie -- she was the first major silent film star ...

Mary Pickford was one of the first proper Hollywood stars, starring in movies like 'Poor Little Rich Girl' and 'Coquette', making her a millionaire.

Mary Pickford was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood's silent era, and rose to become one of the most powerful women in America's film industry. Born plain old Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto in ...

Cinema was not far behind. By 1932 we had three films: a dreadful 1915 silent starring America’s sweetheart, Mary Pickford; Fritz Lang’s creepily effective 1919 silent, “Harakiri”; and in ...

Mary Pickford in A ROMANCE OF THE REDWOODS (US 1917), Regia di Cecil B. DeMille. Source: Courtesy George Eastman Museum. The Silent Film Festival is available online from October 3 through 10 and ...