The shift from silent films to talkies was a huge deal for actors in the late 1920s. Many silent film stars found it difficult to “find their voice” and place in this new Hollywood medium ...

Watch any of this actor-filmmaker’s silent classics ... kicking open the door for every found-footage horror film that followed. Its small cast improvised their dialogue and shot “Blair ...

Silent films were shot on flammable nitrate ... It seems that Cunningham had the whole movie cast, but just couldn’t find the right girl to play the part of Virginia Harris, the ingenue who ...