lending an elegant air to women's beauty as the industry shifted from silent to sound. A film star from 1920 until her death from tuberculosis in 1926, Barbara La Marr was known as "The Girl Who ...
Also, despite the impression of Swanson’s performance in “Sunset Boulevard,” silent film acting was not always as broad as a caricature, especially by the 1920s. Rather, the actors were good ...
Only a small proportion of silent movies have survived. For British movies in particular there is a "great gap" between 1906 and the early 1920s, said Christie, making the work of groups like the ...