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    The Silent Command is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards featuring Bela Lugosi as a foreign saboteur in his American film...
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    The Last Command is a 1928 American silent romantic drama film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz...
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    A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion...
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    Martha Mansfield (category American silent film actresses)
    (born Martha Ehrlich; July 14, 1899 – November 30, 1923) was an American actress in silent films and vaudeville stage plays. She was born in New York...
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    The Mailman is a 1923 American silent melodrama directed by Emory Johnson. FBO released the film in December 1923. The film's "All-Star" cast included...
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    Diana Serra Cary (category American silent film actresses)
    child film actress, vaudevillian, author and silent film historian. She was the last surviving person with a substantial career in silent films. Baby...
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    Lucie Mannheim (category German silent film actresses)
    began a film career in 1923, appearing in several silent and sound films including Atlantik (1929) – the first of many versions of the story of the ill-fated...
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    The Shriek of Araby is a 1923 American silent film comedy starring Ben Turpin and directed by F. Richard Jones for producer Mack Sennett, who also wrote...
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    Alma Tell (category American silent film actresses)
    leading lady status in 1923's The Silent Command, opposite actors Edmund Lowe, Martha Mansfield and Béla Lugosi, in his first American film role.[citation needed]...
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    Pola Negri (category American silent film actresses)
    Polish stage and film actress and singer. She achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne...
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    approximately 1914 to 1923 and appeared in scores of silent-era films. He was executed in approximately August 1923 for his attack on trainer Curley Stecker. Apparently...
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    A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public...
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    Black Oxen (category 1923 films)
    is a 1923 American silent fantasy / romantic drama film starring Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, and Clara Bow. Directed by Frank Lloyd, the film is based...
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  • (1949) The Silent House (1929 film) Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969, TV) The Silent Voice (film) (1915) Silk Stockings (1957 film) The Silver Cord (film) (1933)...
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  • picture]". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved 2023-11-08. Blottner, Gene. Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926-1955: The Harry Cohn Years...
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    11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes. Extensive...
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    1942) was a silent film actor and film director. James Cruze is best known today among film buffs as the director of the epic silent Western The Covered Wagon...
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    The Winding Stair is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by John Griffith Wray and starring Alma Rubens, Edmund Lowe, and Warner Oland. It...
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  • (1923 film), a silent German film by Harry Piel Rivals (1925 film), a film starring Oliver Hardy The Rivals (1926 film), a Swedish silent comedy film directed...
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    The White Sister is a 1923 American silent drama film starring Lillian Gish and Ronald Colman, directed by Henry King, and belatedly released by Metro...
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    Neil Hamilton (actor) (category American male silent film actors)
    to get his first film role, in Vitagraph's The Beloved Impostor (1918). He got his big break in D. W. Griffith's The White Rose (1923). He traveled to...
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    Betty Jewel (category American film actresses)
    her "The Third Orphan of the Storm" (the other two being Dorothy and Lillian Gish). Soon she was tapped to feature in films like The Silent Command and...
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    2024 in American public domain (category Public domain in the United States)
    1928, enter the public domain in 2024. Sound recordings that were published in 1923 enter the public domain. The most famous work to enter the public domain...
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    Sidney Franklin (director) (category Film directors from San Francisco)
    became a director during the silent film era, best known for directing the early Technicolor film The Toll of the Sea. Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916) co-directed...
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  • One Arabian Night (category 1923 films)
    One Arabian Night is a 1923 British silent comedy film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring George Robey. It is based on the story of Aladdin. Aubrey...
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  • Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1991) SIlent Panic (2019) The Silent Partner: (1917, 1923, 1931, 1939 & 1978) Silent Rage (1982) Silent Running...
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    Tod Browning (category American male silent film actors)
    [in Germany]. His first American film was The Silent Command (1923)." Barson, 2020: "...Chaney was not yet open to the notion of making a sound picture...
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  • the Non-Fiction Film in Britain and America, 1897-1925. University of Exeter Press. ISBN 978-0859892964. "List of 7200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films...
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  • but unreleased silent films which are later remade. Films lost include Mary Pickford's Esmerelda and The Foundling and John Barrymore's The Red Widow. October...
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