Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...

Douglas Fairbanks was the quintessential star of the 1920s. Starring in some of the best classic fantasy films, Fairbanks became known as a swashbuckler thanks to roles in films like the seminal The ...

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 ...

A Kansas City filmmaker discovered a long-lost, century-old silent film featuring Clara Bow, one of the biggest stars of that era whose name now lends itself to the title of a song on Taylor Swift&… ...

She made 80 films in just five years, but silent movie star Myrtle Gonzalez faded into oblivion... until now. Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the pioneer Mexican American actress on the ...

Martha Mansfield was born in New York but had ties to Mansfield. She made that her stage name as she rose to fame as an actress in silent film era.

The star-packed Hollywood epic Babylon rebukes the idea that movie stars don't exist in a roundabout way, with its metatextual casting of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie.

“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 ...

A silent-era star, Griffith was nominated for Best Actress at the second-ever Academy Awards, in 1930. But as silent films gave way to sound, she was forced to leave the screen behind.

Nell Shipman’s movie company was expanding with the acquisition of property at the north end of Priest Lake. Now, the Canadian silent movie star would be making her films at her Spokane studios ...

Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...