Michael G. Ankerich

The Sound of Silence

Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780786463831
• ISBN-10: 078646383X
• Artikelnr.: 32466374

Autorenporträt

Michael G. Ankerich is a writer whose work focuses on the silent film era of Hollywood. A former newspaper reporter, he has written extensively for Classic Images, Films of the Golden Age, and Hollywood Studio Magazine, which featured his interview with Butterfly McQueen (Prissy) on the 50th anniversary of the release of Gone With The Wind. He can be reached at his website michaelgankerich.com.

Inhaltsangabe

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