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Title: Voices of Hollywood's Early Film Stars
Author: Blanche Sweet, Bronco Billy Anderson, D.W. Griffith, Harold Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin
Narrator: Blanche Sweet, Bronco Billy Anderson, D.W. Griffith, Harold Lloyd, Jackie Coogan, Charlie Chaplin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2015-03-17
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio
Genres: Biography & Memoir, Non-Fiction, Interviews, Arts & Entertainment, Biography & Memo
Publisher's Summary:
Blanche Sweetwas an Americansilent filmactresswho began her career in the earliest days of theHollywood. As theRoaring Twentieswound down, Sweet's career faltered with the advent oftalkies. Sweet made just three talking pictures, including her critically lauded performance in 1930'sShow Girl in Hollywood, before retiring from the screen that same year. Bronco Billy Andersonwas an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who is best known as the first star of theWesternfilm genre. Anderson played three roles in Edwin Porter's 1903motion pictureThe Great Train Robbery. D. W. Griffithwas an American film director, mostly remembered as the director of the 1915 filmThe Birth of a Nation and the subsequent filmIntolerancein 1916. The Birth of a Nationmade pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film in the United States. Harold Lloyd was anAmericanactor,comedian,film director,film producer, screenwriter, andstunt performerwho is most famous for hissilentcomedy films. Harold Lloyd ranks alongsideCharlie ChaplinandBuster Keatonas one of the most popular and influential film comedians of thesilent filmera. JackieCooganwas an American actor who began his movie career as achild actorinsilent films. Many years later, he became known asUncle Festeron the 1960ssitcomThe Addams Family. In the interim, he sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, widely known as theCoogan Act. Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in thesilent film era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona the Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry.His career spanned more than 75 years,from childhood in theVictorian erauntil a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
