If the Academy was vaguely in the ballpark the first year it handed out Oscars, it completely blew it the next. This year the winners were...

As the silent era drew to a close, Lillian Gish — one of the day's greatest film stars (second only to Mary Pickford in my book) — was...

Our Dancing Daughters was the first movie written specifically for Joan Crawford and it made her a star. It's the story of a rich, wi...

Beggars of Life is the story of a teenage girl (Louise Brooks) who kills her stepfather in order to avoid being raped. Disguising herself...

The story of a girl from the country who makes it big in Hollywood was a staple of the silent era — see, e.g., A Girl's Folly , Souls f...

In Tod Browning's West Of Zanzibar , Lon Chaney is crippled in a quarrel with his wife's lover (Lionel Barrymore) and takes his rev...

One of the most enduring tropes of the early sound era is that of the silent film star who finds his career in ruins when his voice prove...

Let's call this the Great Reconciliation. No, not between the Republicans and the Democrats — as if! Even the Monkey's not that go...