Charlie Chaplin

1917-1918 : Colour photographs of Charlie Chaplin, Chris Wild

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Brigitte Helm

Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). It was Helm’s first role; she was only 18 when filming commenced.

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Speedy

Animated gifs created from he nighttime Coney Island sequence featured the 1928 Harold Lloyd vehicle Speedy. 

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Alice In Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1915)

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara c.1918

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Pandora's Eyes

Pandora’s eyes, take II

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong, 1930s

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Dorothy Mackaill

Dorothy Mackaill in His Captive Woman (1929, dir. George Fitzmaurice) 

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Clara Kimball Young

Clara Kimball Young, (September 6, 1890 – October 15, 1960),  was an American film actress, who was highly regarded and publicly popular in the early silent film era. A tall, dark-haired, full-figured gal that was a popular type of the early 20th century, Clara played both conventional leading ladies and light comedy, the latter of which she excelled at. She quickly became a top star at Vitagraph, ranking seventeenth in a 1913 popularity poll of stars that was topped by Kalem's Alice Joyce.

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Philippe De Lacy

Philippe De Lacy a.k.a. Philippe DeLacy, (July 25, 1917 - July 29, 1995)  was a former silent film era child actor. Born during World War I, the already fatherless Philippe lost his mother and five siblings when a German shell devastated the family home. Only two days old at the time of tragedy, the boy was kept alive, but barely, in the basement of his grandmother's house. He was adopted by Mrs. Edith De Lacy. After the war ended, Mrs. De Lacy brought Philippe to America, where his stunning looks soon created opportunities for him as a model for magazine advertisements. His modeling assignments brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and he appeared in his first film in a bit part at the age of four. Phillipe's childhood story was used as the subject of a fictional children's book, "Little Philippe of Belgium", written by Madeline Brandeis as part of her 'Children of the World' series.

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Vintage Film

City Lights is a 1931 American silent film and romantic comedy-drama written by, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Although "talking" pictures were on the rise since 1928, City Lights was immediately popular. Today, it is thought of as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin's prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, City Lights has an ending widely regarded as one of the most moving in cinema history.

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College 1927

College is a 1927 comedy-drama silent film directed by James W. Horne and Buster Keaton, and starring Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, and Harold Goodwin.

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois.  She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category.

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Vintage Film

Flaming Youth was a 1923 silent film featuring Colleen Moore that centered on the story of a young woman named Patricia Frentiss. The portrayal cemented Colleen's position in the film world as the prototypical flapper (though it was not the first "flapper" film made).

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Vintage Film, Dr. Jack

Harold Lloyd, Dr. Jack (1922) - Dr. Jack is the title of a 1922 comedy movie starring Harold Lloyd.

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Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter. One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances.

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Dorothy Mackaill

Publicity still for the musical Bright Lights (1930). Dorothy is Louanne 'Lou'.

Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 - August 12, 1990) was an English-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s.

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Myrna Loy

Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. - vintage

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Theda Bara

Theda Bara (July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955), born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols.

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE  (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

Charlie Chaplin as “The Little Tramp”

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