The early dawn of the silver screen represented a lawless, wildly creative era in which the foundational rules of global celebrity were invented from scratch. During the 1910s and 1920s, a highly ...

The actor was one of the first to be mourned by the public at large as audiences fell in love with Hollywood’s silent film ...

Before dialogue became the heart of cinema, silent film stars captured audiences through expression, presence, and pure screen charisma. The 1920s were a golden era for these performers, who became ...

You’ve probably heard of Ramon Novarro, the devastatingly sexy Mexican star of the silent screen whose queerness surprised exactly nobody. Maybe you’ve also heard of William Haines, another ...

A century ago this month, Palm Beach was abuzz during the last gasp of the silent-movie era: One of Hollywood’s then-biggest starlets — she’d played opposite such box-office hunks as Rudolph Valentino ...

This 1991 film is at once a biopic devoted to the Chinese silent-film star, Ruan Lingyu, and a self-reflexive documentary starring Maggie Cheung. By J. Hoberman Produced during the late-20th-century ...