Movies: Silent film star

  • 2022
    Babylon

    Babylon (2022)

    Babylon

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    A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s....

    Babylon
  • 1952
    Singin' in the Rain

    Singin' in the Rain (1952)

    Singin' in the Rain

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    In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound....

    Singin' in the Rain
  • 1950
    Sunset Boulevard

    Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    Sunset Boulevard

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    A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity....

    Sunset Boulevard
  • 2011
    The Artist

    The Artist (2011)

    The Artist

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    Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break....

    The Artist
  • 2018
    The Great Buster: A Celebration

    The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)

    The Great Buster: A Celebration

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    A celebration of the life and career of one of America's most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians—Buster Keaton—whose singular style and fertile output during the silent era created his legacy as a true cinematic visionary....

    The Great Buster: A Celebration
  • 1976
    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

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    A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s....

    Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
  • 2013
    Birth of the Tramp

    Birth of the Tramp (2013)

    Birth of the Tramp

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    A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot....

    Birth of the Tramp
  • 2016
    The Great Actor

    The Great Actor (2016)

    The Great Actor

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    A breakthrough opportunity comes when internationally - renowned director Park announces an open call for his new film, and Jang begins intense preparation for the role of his life....

    The Great Actor
  • 1949
    You're My Everything

    You're My Everything (1949)

    You're My Everything

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    In 1924, stage-struck Boston blueblood Hannah Adams picks up musical star Tim O'Connor and takes him home for dinner. One thing leads to another, and when Tim's show rolls on to Chicago a new Mrs. O'Connor comes along as incompetent chorus girl. Holl...

    You're My Everything
  • 1947
    The Perils of Pauline

    The Perils of Pauline (1947)

    The Perils of Pauline

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    Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville performance. Her brief stage career leads her into those "horrible" moving pictures, where she comes ...

    The Perils of Pauline
  • 2012
    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss (2012)

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss

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    Actor and writer Mark Gatiss embarks on a chilling journey through European horror cinema, from the silent nightmares of German Expressionism in the 1920s to the Belgian lesbian vampires in the 1970s, from the black-gloved killers of Italian bloody g...

    Horror Europa with Mark Gatiss
  • 1969
    The Comic

    The Comic (1969)

    The Comic

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    An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and ...

    The Comic
  • 1927
    Character Studies

    Character Studies (1927)

    Character Studies

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    Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celeb...

    Character Studies
  • 1952
    Dreamboat

    Dreamboat (1952)

    Dreamboat

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    Thornton Sayre, a respected college professor - secretly formerly a silent films romantic action hero - is disturbed, feeling his privacy has been violated, and his professional credibility as a scholar jeopardized, when he learns his old movies have...

    Dreamboat
  • 1989
    Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

    Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989)

    Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius

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    A film about the career and methods of the master silent comedy filmmaker....

    Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius
  • 2012
    Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

    Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room (2012)

    Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room

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    Documentary about an extraordinary lady, Diana Serra Cary (born Peggy-Jean Montgomery). In the early 1920s she was one of Hollywood's first major child stars, Baby Peggy....

    Baby Peggy: The Elephant in the Room
  • 2021
    This Is Francis X. Bushman

    This Is Francis X. Bushman (2021)

    This Is Francis X. Bushman

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    Documentary about the life of silent film star Francis X. Bushman...

    This Is Francis X. Bushman
  • 1986
    Louise Brooks

    Louise Brooks (1986)

    Louise Brooks

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    55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks...

    Louise Brooks
  • 1934
    The Camera Speaks

    The Camera Speaks (1934)

    The Camera Speaks

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    In this short film, an elderly cameraman and his camera reminisce about their days shooting silent films and news stories....

    The Camera Speaks
  • 2022
    THE PUMPKIN-MAN AWAKENS

    THE PUMPKIN-MAN AWAKENS (2022)

    THE PUMPKIN-MAN AWAKENS

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    1920's style horror movie about a cursed pumpkin who takes control of a villager and seeks revenge!...

    THE PUMPKIN-MAN AWAKENS