1.   Gloria Swanson certainly never had another role to rival fading silent screen goddess Norma Desmond, and she knew it, too.

2.   He began taping play-by-plays in front of a silent TV screen.

3.   Norma Desmond was not a luminary of the silent screen for nothing, and Ms. Close is not one of our finest actresses on instinct alone.

4.   Some, like Farrell and Miss Pitts, had their biggest triumphs on the silent screen.

5.   Still, for aficionados of the silent screen, this is a must-have, and the invariably rare stills are worth the price of admission.

6.   The sensitive Gromit never says a word, but communicates vividly through close-set eyes that are the most expressive instruments since Valentino sizzled on the silent screen.

7.   The silent screen had already influenced the stage, as scenic and lighting designers emulated the techniques of the camera.

8.   There is much squawking because great artists of the silent screen were all but ignored.

9.   Though Rogers admired cowboy stars from the silent screen era like Hoot Gibson and Tom Mix, he did not envision himself galloping across the prairie.

10.   Annie is said to have been inspired by silent screen star Mary Pickford.