Like other silent-era stars, Bow retired in the early '30s and became a rancher in Nevada. Her career also ended in something ...

The silent film era represents the earliest days of cinema. In Hollywood, silent movies starred some truly original and innovative talent, famous names that still resonate throughout the world today.

Being a star isn't just about performance, it's about cultivating personae. In the silent era particularly a star needed to be an easily recognizable personality in real life to go along with ...

Many of the “stars” who pioneered the feature film era are unknown to us today: a movie fan magazine in 1914 listed the most popular star as Earle Williams, followed by J. Warren Kerrigan ...

Anita Page, 98, one of Hollywood’s last silent-era screen stars and a leading lady in one of the first sound musicals, “The Broadway Melody,” died in her sleep Saturday at her home in Los ...

A contract with Linder led Mansfield to become a movie star during the silent era. Linder would call her "our Mansfield actress" and "our Mansfield girl." ...

Because many silent film stars found it difficult to “find their voice” in the new Hollywood medium, the talkies ended a lot of careers. But here are seven actors who succeeded—and prospered ...

She published an acclaimed memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982, and died of a heart attack at age 78 in 1985. Here's a look back at Louise Brooks ' singular star power in 10 stunning black-and ...

“Perhaps the ballyhoo meant nothing,” Kevin Brownlow wrote in his defining history of the silent film era, “The Parade’s Gone By…” It’s probably true that even avid moviegoers have ...

Texas movie stars from the Silent Era. The very first Academy Award for Best Picture went to "Wings," a romantic action movie about World War I pilots filmed in San Antonio between Sept. 7, 1926 ...

Cary, 95 — one of the last living stars from the silent era — is not only a pioneer in the medium of film, she became an early advocate for the rights of children in the industry.