A 1920s Art Deco cinema is marking its centenary with a silent film festival of restored films, some of which were first shown there 100 years ago. The Rex in Wareham, Dorset, is showing 11 films ...
lending an elegant air to women's beauty as the industry shifted from silent to sound. A film star from 1920 until her death from tuberculosis in 1926, Barbara La Marr was known as "The Girl Who ...
Only a small proportion of silent movies have survived. For British movies in particular there is a "great gap" between 1906 and the early 1920s, said Christie, making the work of groups like the ...