81. But when talking films emerged, many studios intentionally played down silent films because they figured the two mediums could not co-exist, Brownlow said. 82. Charlie Chaplin became the other great star of silent films. 83. Chaplin himself sent for the boy, and Milton appeared in silent films with Chaplin, Marie Dressler, serial queen Pearl White, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. 84. During the early silent films, actors were not listed by name. 85. Early silent films starring George Bancroft, W.C. Fields and Fred Thompson were shot at the ranch. 86. Fairbanks did this in the silent films, but it was banned from later versions because too many youngsters tried it out on their playmates. 87. He also helped start a silent film festival at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York that has become an annual event on Halloween. 88. Hearn plays Max, the former movie director who discovered Desmond and gave her leading roles in silent films and now is her butler and chauffeur. 89. Julie Bishop, an actress whose career stretched from silent films to the early days of television, has died. 90. Much of the original silent film is irretrievably lost. |