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1 day ago · Silent Movie is a 1976 American satirical silent comedy film co-written, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, released by 20th Century Fox in summer 1976. The ensemble cast includes Dom DeLuise, Marty Feldman, Bernadette Peters. and Sid Caesar, with cameos by Anne Bancroft, Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, Marcel Marceau, and Paul Newman as themselves, and character cameos by Harry ...
1 day ago · At the Art House Convergence’s recent independent film exhibition conference held in Chicago, Josh Frank, author and urban drive-in entrepreneur, announced his radical initiative for luring people back into theaters: Silent movies. Hold on, hold on, hear him out. “Silents Synced,” scheduled to ...
6 days ago · The Gold Rush is a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film also stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman and Malcolm Waite . Chaplin drew inspiration from photographs of the Klondike Gold Rush as well as from the story of the Donner Party ...
3 days ago · Budget. $463,000 [1] Box office. $966,878 (rentals) [1] Sparrows (1926) by William Beaudine. Sparrows is a 1926 American silent drama film about a young woman who rescues a baby from kidnappers. The film, which was originally titled Scraps, starred and was produced by Mary Pickford, who was the most powerful woman in Hollywood at the time.
6 days ago · Silent movie icon's father was native of Mayo. By Tom Gillespie. THE only daughter of a Ballinrobe emigrant to America became an icon in Hollywood’s silent movies era in the 1920s. One of her iconic roles was as Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera, opposite acting legend Lon Chaney. Bernard Joyce, in his contribution to ...
5 days ago · Billy Bevan is probably the biggest name in this picture for modern fans of silent comedy and he is fun as both the overly ethusiastic secretary and Billie’s dead husband back from the dead to claim her. This sequence leads to a comical chase that dances on the edge of cartoonishness, but that’s not a complaint. Billy Bevan strikes.
3 days ago · 3 The Big Parade Was One of the Silent Era's Highest-Grossing Films (1925) IMDb Rating: 7.9. A silent World War I epic romance, King Vidor's The Big Parade is one of the crowning achievements of Hollywood silent filmmaking. The Big Parade stars John Gilbert as James Apperson, a lazy rich man who enlists in World War I.
