Like anybody cares...but it was 100 years ago!
1.Mary Pickford- I seen her in 1 movie-SPARROWS (1926)
2. Marguerite Clark- not a clue.
3. Douglas Fairbanks- the dashing hero of the first action films.
4. Harold Lockwood- who the f**k knows.
5. William S. Hart- the Eastwood of early film.
6. Wallace Reid- Best known for his boozing and drug problems.
7. Pearl White- the Queen of the Cliffhangers.
8. Anita Stuart- Don't know much about her.
9. Theda Bara- the original Vampire.
10. Francis X. Bushman- Who's first film was in 1911, and last was BIKINI BEACH (1966) which also featured Boris Karloff!
Great. Now I need to see Bikini Beach. :wink:
Chaplin was #17.
Where'd you find this list, RC?
MOTION PICTURE NEWS magazine- on the Internet Archive!
They got every old magazine every made that's in the public domain-check it out.
https://archive.org/
Make sure you choose 'text only' on the search engine- or else your gonna get all sortsa s**t you won't want.
TCM has had Silent Sunday Night for years, occasionally I watch. Last night's shorts were from 1915... over 100 years ago. Silent films don't get "watchable" until the 1920s for me.
Though I have seen and like BROKEN BLOSSOMS (it's wonderful) starring LILLIAN GISH, RICHARD BARTHELMESS, and DONALD CRISP (yes, that Donald Crisp, he's 37) ... released 1919 !!! 100 years ago!
Here 'tis:
http://youtu.be/GNzYWG5FTmk (http://youtu.be/GNzYWG5FTmk)
I don't have TCM anymore, so If I watch a silent movie, it better be a good one!
I always enjoyed German silents more than American ones, for some reason.