A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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MARTHA SLEEPER (F.B.O.) DANNY O'SHEA (F.B.O.) BOB CAMILLA DON BORIS STEELE HORN TERRY KARLOFF (F.B.O.) (UNITED ARTISTS) (FOX) (UNIVERSAL) MAS MEIGHAN, LOUIS WOLHEIM IN "THE RACKET" (PARAMOUNT) EMIL JANNINGS, EVELYN BRENT IN "THE LAST COMMAND" (PARAMOUNT) IRENE RICH, WARNER BAXTER IN "CRAIG'S WIFE" (PATHE) COLLEEN MOORE, MICKEY ROONEY IN "ORCHIDS AND ERMINE" (FIRST NATIONAL) INEST TORRENCE " EAMBOAT BILL, JR." NITED ARTISTS) RUTH TAYLOR IN 'GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" (PARAMOUNT) DON ALVARADO IN "DRUMS OF LOVE" (UNITED ARTISTS) NORMA TALMADGE IN "THE DOVE" (UNITED ARTISTS) RICHARD BARTHELMESS IN "THE LITTLE SHEPHERD OF KINGDOM COME" RAQUEL TORRES IN "WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS" (M-G-M) 28 JOSEPH SCHILDKRAUT, LEATRICE JOY, NILS ASTHER IN "THE BLUE DANUBE" (PATHE) Producers were apathetic as to the public reaction to the sound screen, but it _ wasn't long before they realized that the talkies," as they were labeled, were just what was | needed to shake the motion picture industry out of the doldrums. Motion picture theatres throughout the country were being wired for sound and exhibitors were profiting by the novelty. Musical backgrounds were synchronized to silent films, and in some instances dialogue was added. They were advertised as "part-talkie." "Abie's Irish Rose" was an example of this. Originally made as a silent film, talking and singing sequences were added. Released in two versions, advertisements read "Silent or with sound." (Right) BILLIE DOVE IN "THE LOVE MART GILBERT ROLAND (FIRST NATIONAL) *RDNER AMES VG-M) ROBERT ARMSTRONG (PATHE) GLENN TRYON (UNIVERSAL) BARBARA KENT (M-G-M) EDDIE FRED RUTH REX QUILLAN KOHLER TAYLOR LEASE (PATHE) (PARAMOUNT) (PARAMOUNT) (F.B.O.) REX BELL (FOX) 317