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.

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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Keaton, the Keystone Film Company ruled slapstick comedy. The studio launched the careers of some of the most important figures of the silent era, including Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty ...

“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 ...

Although the Talmadge sisters no longer hold the same star power they did in the 1920s, the streets named after them are a lasting tribute to their contribution to Hollywood’s silent film era.

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.