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

As silent films gave way to “talkies” and the Talmadge ... architects who made this community possible during the Great Depression. Without the financial investment and promotion from the ...

Recently I took my two daughters to see a silent film at Film Forum here in New York. “Kid Boots” was a hit romantic comedy of 1926, starring the stage comic Eddie Cantor (roughly the Martin ...

Depression-era audiences adored her ... fires were not uncommon. What little worth silent films had after their run vanished with the advent of sound in the late 1920s. Prints were often stripped ...