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A Pictorial Treasury

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An edition of Classics of the Silent Screen (1959)

Classics of the Silent Screen

A Pictorial Treasury

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Showbiz historian and TV/radio personality Joe Franklin's picks of 50 great silent films and 75 irrepressible stars.

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Citadel Press
Language
English
Pages
255

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Classics of the Silent Screen
October 1983, Lyle Stuart
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Cover of: Classics of the silent screen
Cover of: Classics of the Silent Screen
Cover of: Classics of the silent screen
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Classics of the Silent Screen: A Pictorial Treasury
1959, Citadel Press, The Citadel Press
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Table of Contents

Forward. Page 7
Part One. FIFTY GREAT FILMS
The Great Train Robbery, 1903 Page 10 The Perils of Pauline, 1914 Page 12 The Spoilers, 1914 Page 14 The Birth of a Nation, 1915 Page 16 Intolerance, 1916 Page 20 Hell's Hinges, 1916 Page 23 Broken Blossoms, 1919 Page 25 Till the Clouds Roll By, 1919 Page 27 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1920 Page 28 Way Down East, 1920 Page 30 The Mark of Zorro, 1920 Page 34 Tol'able David, 1921 Page 36 Orphans of the Storm, 1921 Page 38 Nanook of the North, 1922 Page 41 The Last of the Mohicans, 1922 Page 42 Safety Last, 1923 Page 44 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1923 Page 45 Greed, 1923 Page 48 The Covered Wagon, 1923 Page 51 The Ten Commandments, 1923 Page 54 The Iron Horse, 1924 Page 56 Sherlock Jr., 1924 Page 59 Peter Pan, 1924 Page 61 The Big Parade, 1924 Page 64 The Gold Rush, 1925 Page 66 The Phantom of the Opera, 1925 Page 68 The Lost World, 1925 Page 70 A Kiss for Cinderella, 1925 Page 72 Son of the Sheik, 1926 Page 74 Sparrows, 1926 Page 76 The Scarlet Letter, 1926 Page 78 Stella Dallas, 1926 Page 80 The Black Pirate, 1926 Page 82 Don Juan, 1926 Page 83 Seventh Heaven, 1927 Page 85 Flesh and the Devil, 1927 Page 86 What Price Glory?, 1927 Page 88 The General, 1927 Page 89 Wings, 1927 Page 92 The Strong Man, 1927 Page 94 White Gold, 1927 Page 96 Sunrise, 1927 Page 98 Ben-Hur, 1927 Page 102 Beau Geste, 1927 Page 104 The Cat and the Canary, 1927 Page 105 White Shadows in the South Seas, 1928 Page 108 Our Dancing Daughters, 1928 Page 110 The Crowd, 1928 Page 112 City Lights, 1931 Page 114 Tabu, 1931 Page 116
Part Two. SEVENTY-FIVE GREAT STARS
Bronco Billy Anderson Page 120 Vilma Banky Page 122 Theda Bara Page 124 John Barrymore Page 126 Richard Barthelmess Page 129 Clara Bow Page 131 William Boyd Page 133 Betty Bronson Page 134 Louise Brooks Page 138 John Bunny Page 139 Francis X. Bushman Page 140 Lon Chaney Page 141 Charlie Chaplin Page 144 Marguerite Clark Page 147 Ronald Coleman Page 148 Jackie Coogan Page 150 Dolores Costello Page 151 Maurice Costello Page 152 Joan Crawford Page 153 Marion Davies Page 155 Carol Dempster Page 156 Reginald Denny Page 158 Richard Dix Page 159 Douglas Fairbanks Page 160 William & Dustin Farnum Page 162 Greta Garbo Page 164 John Gilbert Page 167 Dorothy Gish Page 169 Lillian Gish Page 171 Corrinne Griffith Page 174 William Haines Page 175 Neil Hamilton Page 176 William S. Hart Page 177 Sessue Hayakawa Page 179 Emil Jannings Page 180 Leatrice Joy Page 182 Alice Joyce Page 184 Buster Keaton Page 185 Norman Kerry Page 187 Harry Langdon Page 188 Laura La Plante Page 189 Laurel & Hardy Page 190 Elmo Lincoln Page 193 Harold Lloyd Page 194 Bessie Love Page 197 Mae Marsh Page 199 Thomas Meighan Page 202 Tom Mix Page 203 Colleen Moore Page 205 Mae Murray Page 206 Alla Nazimova Page 207 Pola Negri Page 208 Mabel Normand Page 210 Ramon Novarro Page 212 Mary Pickford (NOTE: PAGES MISSING FROM THIS VERSION) Page 213 Esther Ralston Page 215 Charles Ray Page 216 Wallace Reid Page 218 Rin Tin Tin Page 219 Norma Shearer Page 220 Milton Sills Page 221 Lewis Stone Page 222 Erich von Stroheim Page 223 Glora Swanson Page 225 Blanche Sweet Page 228 Constance Talmadge Page 229 Norma Talmadge Page 230 Alice Terry Page 231 Fred Thompson Page 232 Ben Turpin Page 234 Rudolph Valentino Page 235 Florence Vidor Page 239 Henry B. Walthall Page 240 Pearl White Page 242 Clara Kimball Young Page 244
Part Three. APPENDIX
Questions and Answers Page 247 Casts of Films Page 252

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.4309
Library of Congress
PN1993.5.U6 F7

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
255 p.
Number of pages
255

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OL5775760M
Internet Archive
classicsofsilent00fran_0
LCCN
59014063
OCLC/WorldCat
329849
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520774

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