With a filmography including over forty films, Bara was one of the most prolific stars of the silent era. As a partially lost film, Cleopatra is not available to stream or purchase. Clara Bow's ...

Both exalt art as a calling. After a movie collapses as a result of a scandal, Tinseltown’s moguls blacklist Klaus, who flees ...

A profile sketch of a woman with curly hair, dark makeup, and smoking a cigarette scrawled on concrete in the undercroft of the Lincoln Memorial could be that of silent-film star Theda Bara, according ...

Before Keaton, the Keystone Film Company ruled slapstick comedy. The studio launched the careers of some of the most important figures of the silent era, including Charlie Chaplin, Roscoe “Fatty ...

These new crime films were different from the morality tales of the silent era's crime genre. Their ethnic characters, pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, were the new archetypal Americans.