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The birth of the ‘talkies’ sounded the death knell for so many silent stars

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Actor singer dancer Gene Kelly in scene from film Singin' in the Rain. Today in History The birth of the ‘talkies’ sounded the death knell for so many silent stars Marea Donnelly , History Writer, The Daily Telegraph July 2, 2016 12:00am BY the time Greta Garbo ordered, “Gimme a whvisky, gincher ale on the side ... and don’t be stingy, baby,’’ in 1930, the careers of several Hollywood contemporaries had already hit the floor. Those who failed to make the transition to sound included Vilma Banky, Mae Murray and Norma Talmadge. Comic legend Charlie Chaplin had yet to talk on film. Roles for Rudolph Valentino’s romantic rival John Gilbert dried up, Douglas Fairbanks became disillusioned and audiences avoided director D.W. Griffith’s talkies. The fate of Hollywood’s inaugural stars, after Warner Bros realised Thomas Edison’s vision of combining film and recorded sound in Al Jolson’s All That Jazz in 1927, inspired a cinema hit when Gene Kelly, umbrella folded, exuberantly ...
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The 10 best silent movie stars - in pictures

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  The 10 best ... The 10 best silent movie stars - in pictures Shares 157 Comments 44 Observer film critic Philip French's choice of the 10 most quietly impressive actors of their age Philip French Sun 6 Nov 2011 00.05 GMT First published on Sun 6 Nov 2011 00.05 GMT Greta Garbo (1905-90)The most discussed film at Cannes this year, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist , a pastiche of a monochrome Hollywood movie of the 20s, has created a welcome new interest in the silent cinema. It’s probably inspired by real-life lovers John Gilbert, whose star waned when the talkies came, and Greta Garbo, who became even more successful when her first sound film proclaimed “Garbo talks!”. She made one film in her native Sweden and a second in Germany before coming to Hollywood. The camera loved her, and she made 10 silent films in five years, the...
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