Buster Keaton was one of the biggest stars of the silent era, but his career took a nosedive in the 1930s and he was forced ...

The 1910s marked the birth of movie stardom, with women playing a central role in shaping this new form of entertainment. In the silent film era, actresses relied entirely on physical expression, ...

Silent movie star John Gilbert was the prominent leading man of his era but as times progressed he struggled to transition to spoken word movies ...

The silent film era feels almost like a dream now, a time when everything was new, and nothing about movies was certain. Actors had to rely on their eyes, their hands, and the smallest lift of a smile ...

A Los Angeles home built for silent film star Bessie Love and filled with original 1920s details is on the market, listing earlier this month for about $6.25 million. Designed in the Spanish Colonial ...

A century ago this month, Palm Beach was abuzz during the last gasp of the silent-movie era: One of Hollywood’s then-biggest starlets — she’d played opposite such box-office hunks as Rudolph Valentino ...