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Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Silent Stars about?

From one of America's most renowned film scholars: a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misperceived, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Here is Valentino,'the Sheik,'who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded as; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original'Phantom'and'Hunchback,'Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Here, too, is the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.This is the first book to anatomize the major silent players, reconstruct their careers, and give us a sense of w

Who reads Silent Stars?

Author

Jeanine Basinger

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679438403

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.09 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13