Are you enthusiastic about a subject and would like to know about it more deeply? Do you want to engage in it as a hobby? In the mood of further develop your tastes/passions? Perhaps this episode can help you to have some insights about how to get more knowledge and organize your methodology for it.

2020 has been a really weird and surprising year. Nobody could expect that the world would stop due to a virus. New practices had to be implemented immediately and all old certainties were lost in a blink of eyes. Public gatherings were suddenly gone and life had to be more internet-oriented. This has definitely included silent film festivals, which had to adapt to the new reality. By doing so, they were also making history because transferring a big cinema festival to an on line environment has been really unprecedented and it's something that will definitely be reminded in the future because it worked so well and it was cozy to still be able to congregate with fellow silent film fans. This episode was published as a review in Silent Beauties blog in October 12th 2020.

Do you know those truly inspirational stories of people who fought all sorts of adversities and succeeded anyway? Who had no other resources besides their own will power and resilience? Who suffered but remained true to their character? This is the life of Clara Bow, who faced lots of difficulties but succeeded due to her undeniable talent, strength of character and friendly personality. Listen to this episode and get inspired.

Mary Pickford's career was so full of accomplishments that it was necessary another episode. She was a real pioneer, not only as an actress but also as a businesswoman, screenwriter, headhunter and even studio mogul. Being a hard worker, she was involved with nearly every aspect of her work and was competent in all of them. Even out of cinema field per se she was active and competent, for instance: In charity, radio programs, book and newspapers columns writing. She even had her own trademark of cosmetics for a while.

The silent era has many competent actors, actresses, directors, etc. Some of them even had inspirational stories. This is the case when it comes to pioneering Mary Pickford and vibrant Clara Bow, both very skilled actresses, who overcame lots of difficulties reached stardom.

Recommendation of an interesting book about history of the cinema, with emphasis on early cinema (1900s - 1910).