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...

1929's Piccadilly opens on a love triangle — a nightclub dancer (Gilda Gray) in love with the club's owner (Jameson Thomas) while...

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...

The Mythical Monkey's essay about Buster Keaton and Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle reads even better when one of the best silent movi...

I've been on the road for most of February and only this morning heard about the Buster Keaton Blogathon ongoing at Silent-ology . I co...

Katie-Bar-The-Door is out of town again — ongoing family issues — so my pal Mister Muleboy and I met at the AFI-Silver yesterday afternoon t...