From the earliest days of cinema, comedy has been one of the most dominant genres. In the silent era, stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin brought laughs to audiences worldwide ...

It opens with the 1925 silent comedy Her Sister From Paris, starring Constance Talmadge as both a wife whose husband is coming to believe she’s boring and her lively twin sister. As the husband, ...

The sound effects bounce off the walls and vibrate the seats at a recent screening of the 1929 silent comedy ... play the theater organ, “you’re the human soundtrack for the movies,” says ...

Think of silent cinema and chances are a number of images will come to mind. Count Orlok’s shadow on the stairs in Nosferatu ...