The Sound of Silence : Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap between Silents and Talkies

Ankerich, Michael G.

McFarland & Co Inc（2011/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786463831
• DDC分類 791.430280922

Full Description

Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics.

These three performers and thirteen others (Barbara Barondess, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Pauline Curley, Billie Dove, Edith Fellows, Rose Hobart, William Janney, Marcia Mae Jones, Barbara Kent, Anita Page, Lupita Tovar, and Barbara Weeks) reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     

Foreword by Marion Shilling     

Introduction     

1. Hugh Allan     

2. Barbara Barondess     

3. Thomas Beck     

4. Mary Brian     

5. Pauline Curley     

6. Billie Dove     

7. Edith Fellows     

8. Rose Hobart     

9. William Janney     

10. Marcia Mae Jones     

11. Barbara Kent     

12. Esther Muir     

13. Anita Page     

14. Marion Shilling     

15. Lupita Tovar     

16. Barbara Weeks     

Index