Classics of the silent screen (1959)

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of the silent era— rich enough I hope to bring back happy memories to those of you who remember the films and players, and to stimulate interest and an eagerness to see them among those of you who are too young. It would have been easier by far to have included many more films and many more stars— and said far less. But that has been done before. In devoting more space to individual films and players it has been possible to pay a more comprehensive tribute to the silent films— not just to say that they were great, but to explain why— and by implication if not by name, to all the wonderful motion pictures and the fine actors and actresses who through no lack of merit on their part now find themselves on the editorial equivalent of the cutting room floor. I should like to extend my warmest thanks to William K. Everson, my Research Assistant on this book, and to the following individuals and institutions who so generously supplied photographs for it: John E. Allen, Gerald D. McDonald, George Eastman House (Rochester, N. Y.), Sandra Everson, George J. Michell, Jr., Marjorie Oplotka (of the Museum of Modern Art, New York), and Samuel M. Sherman. Joe Franklin