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Title: SILENT STARS
Format: Paperback

List price: £28.50


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ISBN 10: 0819564516
ISBN 13: 9780819564511
Publisher: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND
Pub. date: 1 November, 2000
Pages: 510
Description: Lassie the dog was to feature in six more movies before transferring to US television in 1954. Her fame grew with every passing year, with one collie after another being recast in the role.
Synopsis: Film scholar Jeanine Basinger offers a revelatory, perceptive, and highly readable look at the greatest silent film stars -- not those few who are fully appreciated and understood, like Chaplin, Keaton, Gish, and Garbo, but those who have been misrepresented, unfairly dismissed, or forgotten. Included are Valentino, "the Sheik," who was hardly the effeminate lounge lizard he's been branded; Mary Pickford, who couldn't have been further from the adorable little creature with golden ringlets that was her film persona; Marion Davies, unfairly pilloried in Citizen Kane; the original "Phantom" and "Hunchback," Lon Chaney; the beautiful Talmadge sisters, Norma and Constance. Here are the great divas, Pola Negri and Gloria Swanson; the great flappers, Colleen Moore and Clara Bow; the great cowboys, William S. Hart and Tom Mix; and the great lover, John Gilbert. Basinger also includes the quintessential slapstick comedienne, Mabel Normand, with her Keystone Kops; the quintessential all-American hero, Douglas Fairbanks; and, of course, the quintessential all-American dog, Rin-Tin-Tin.
Publication: US
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Returns: Returnable
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