Silent Star of the Month

In the beginning, films were silent. What early filmmakers lacked in sound, they made up with creative and artistic techniques. And it all ended with a jazz singer in the Jazz Age, but the output that survives from the silent period is astonishing, both in quantity and in content. Unfortunately, the new generations are unacquainted with the great pictures and the great actresses and actors from yesteryear. Through this page, we want to renew the interest in the silent film, lifting its label of "unfamiliar and remote" and making it, if not cherished, at least acknowledged and respected.

Previous Silent Stars featured include:

Month	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
January		Clara Bow
February			Rudolph Valentino	Ramon Novarro	Alla Nazimova
March		Norma Shearer	Eleanor Boardman		Marshall "Mickey" Neilan
April		Pola Negri	Myrna Loy	Kathlyn Williams	Felix the Cat
May		Theda Bara	Billie Dove	Florence Turner
June		Tod Browning
July	Blanche Sweet	Lottie Lyell	Mae Marsh	May McAvoy
August		Max Linder	Colleen Moore	Rod La Rocque
September		Bebe Daniels	Fay Wray
October		Pearl White	Erich von Stroheim	Charles Chauvel
November		Madge Bellamy	Norma Talmadge
December	Harold Lloyd	William S. Hart	Wallace Reid	Fred Thomson

The Silents Majority site has a Featured Star page.