the silent era revolutionized entertainment, produced several masterpieces, many of which are now lost, and launched the ...

One newspaper called her “the siren of the silent screen.” In 1915, the New York Tribune’s drama critic Heywood Broun wrote: “No good ever came from such eyes.” Her line, “Kiss me ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. More memorably, "Phantom" enabled silent screen star Lon Chaney — in the wake of his earlier triumph, "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" — to ...

silent screen star Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, a part she re-created on Broadway to equal success. Buckley also earned a Tony Award for her performance as Grizabella in Cats and a Tony ...