She’d grown up admiring the work of silent film actress Florence Turner, who’d once been one of the most famous women on screen ... straight out of a movie: A private train would pick up ...

Born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, Brad Pitt was just two weeks shy of graduating from the University of Missouri when ...

It’s known as the ‘Sweet Science,’ and its popularity in the 1920s played a big role in getting the movie industry off the ...

The 1915 silent film “The Birth of a Nation” is acclaimed today as one of the greatest achievements in motion picture history ... before seen on the silver screen. He employed a cast of ...

Thousands of films from the silent ... movie of the small German studio Prana Film, the original Nosferatu premiered at the Berlin Zoological Garden on March 4, 1922. Nine days later, the picture ...

“Wings” (1927), a silent war film directed by William A. Wellman, won the Best Picture award—along with the Oscar for Best Engineering Effects—at the inaugural Academy Awards ceremony in 192 ...