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| Lon Chaney, his bag of tricks and just a few of his many faces - c. 1920s, London After Midnight (1927), He Who Gets Slapped (1924), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), and The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) . |
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| Bessie Love, (September 10, 1898 – April 26, 1986) was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies.was celebrated for portrayals of child roles while still a child. Her first featured part was that of a Swedish servant girl in "The Flying Torpedo," with John Emerson. Previous to that she was an unknown "extra," working after school. Before long she was playing opposite William S. Hart. The next step upward came when she starred in her own picture as "Nina, the Flower Girl." |
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| Billie Dove, born Bertha Bohny, (May 14, 1903 - December 31, 1997) to Swiss parents Charles and Bertha Bohny who emigrated to New York City before she was born. She legally changed her name to Lillian Bohny in the early 1920s. As a teen, she worked as a model to help support her family and was hired as a teenager by Florenz Ziegfeld to appear in his Ziegfeld Follies Revue. She migrated to Hollywood, where she began appearing in silent films. She soon became one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s, appearing in Douglas Fairbanks' smash hit Technicolor film The Black Pirate (1926), as Rodeo West in The Painted Angel (1929), and was dubbed The American Beauty (1927), the title of one of her films. |
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Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) and preferred to not stay in school but to go to the vaudeville houses and study the onstage antics of many different groups. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.
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