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2007-01-25 14:58:41 · 6 answers · asked by the wonderer 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
You can look them up in wikipedia.. try under American silent film actors/wikipedia....that will get you started...just in case..here are a couple...
Joan Crawford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford,
Roscoe" Fatty" Arbuckle, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, Greta Garbo, Clara Bow, Rudolph Valentino, Will Rogers, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy,
Hope I have helped!!! That is my favorite era...I love the old black and whites and the silent films. Good luck! OH how could I forget the Barrymore's!!!! Look 'em all up dear...good luck again!!!
2007-01-25 15:31:32 · answer #1 · answered by momofatsc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean 1920-1930? Too many to list off-hand. With it being Oscar time, why not check out the Best Actor/Actress winners for your timeframe (they started in the late 1920's). But don't forget, you're moving from the silent era to the talking pictures, so many of the bigs were silent stars like Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin.
Some more off the top of my head:
Douglas Fairbanks
Norma Shearer
Harold Lloyd
Clara Bow
Buster Keaton
Janet Gaynor
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Rudolph Valentino
Gloria Swanson
Charles Laughton
Lionel and John Barrymore
Joan Crawford
Bette Davis
2007-01-25 23:24:11 · answer #2 · answered by Roy Staiger 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jean Harlow 1911 1937
Rudolph Valentino 1895 1926
Louise Dresser1882 1965
screen credits...Mother Knows Best Air Circus Goose Woman Not Quit Decent by Universal, Paramont, Fox and others
Mae Murray
John Gilbert....in the Merry Widow 1925 by Metro-Goldwyn
Roland Young 1887 1953 Greatest success was the Topper comedy series for the Hal Roach Studios and Ruggles Of Red Gap by Paramont
George Bancroft 1882 1956
Mischa Auer
Lionel Atwill Silent Witness 1932 Fox, Mystery of the Wax Museum Warner Brothers; The Sphinx Monogram Studios 1933
Eddie Cantor
Al Jolson
Renee Adoree
Henry Armetta
Marion Davies
Ruth Chatterton
Bob Burns
Monte Blue
Ethel Mae Barrymore
2007-01-25 23:42:57 · answer #3 · answered by territizzyb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks, Louise Brooks, Eddie Cantor, Mary Pickford, Emil Jannings, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Harold Lloyd.
2007-01-25 23:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Conrad Veidt (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Max Shreck (Nosferatu) were good silent era movie stars. Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera is the most well known. Mary Philbin also did wonderful in there. John Barrymore did brilliantly in Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Theda Bera was supposed to be excellent. Douglas Fairfanks in the Mark of Zorro was superb. That was my personal favorite take on the character.
As far as the 30s, Bette Davis. Hands down. I've seen her in more stuff like hag horrors in the 60s, but that's enough to know that anything she was in was at least a 3 out of 5 star film. They were not cheap budget exploitation films. They were made well.
Paul Muni in Scarface was awesome. As was James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces. The Marx Broithers were also great along with the Three Stooges.
2007-01-26 00:00:37 · answer #5 · answered by jeffeymartinez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roland Gikbert; Rudolph Valentino;Jean Harlow;Wallace Beary;Mae West; Emil Jannings;Charlie Chaplin;Harold Lloyd;Lewis Stone;Great Garbo;George Raft;Warner Oland;
Melvin Douglas;Douglas Fairbanks;Mary Pickford;Ramon Navarro;Gloria Swanson etc.
2007-01-25 23:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋