Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses

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University Press of Kentucky, 12 wrz 2010 - 464

As a five-feet-three-inch hunchback who weighed about 100 pounds, Homer Lea (1876--1912), was an unlikely candidate for life on the battlefield, yet he became a world-renowned military hero. In the Dragon's Lair: The Exploits of Homer Lea paints a revealing portrait of a diminutive yet determined man who never earned his valor on the field of battle, but left an indelible mark on his times.

Lawrence M. Kaplan draws from extensive research to illuminate the life of a "man of mystery," while also yielding a clearer understanding of the early twentieth-century Chinese underground reform and revolutionary movements. Lea's career began in the inner circles of a powerful Chinese movement in San Francisco that led him to a generalship during the Boxer Rebellion. Fixated with commanding his own Chinese army, Lea's inflated aspirations were almost always dashed by reality. Although he never achieved the leadership role for which he strived, he became a trusted advisor to revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty.

As an author, Lea garnered fame for two books on geopolitics: The Valor of Ignorance, which examined weaknesses in the American defenses and included dire warnings of an impending Japanese-American war, and The Day of the Saxon, which predicted the decline of the British Empire. More than a character study, In the Dragon's Lair provides insight into the establishment and execution of underground reform and revolutionary movements within U.S. immigrant communities and in southern China, as well as early twentieth-century geopolitical thought.

 

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Bessie Love
229
Dorothy Mackaill
233
Mary MacLaren
237
Percy Marmont
241
Mae Marsh
247
James Morrison
251
Jack Mulhall
255
Mae Murray
259

Evelyn Brent
39
Mary Brian
43
Gladys Brockwell
51
Kate Bruce
55
John Bunny
59
Ruth Clifford
63
Elmer Clifton
69
Miriam Cooper
73
Pauline Curley
79
Viola Dana
83
Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon
89
Philippe De Lacy
97
Carol Dempster
101
Dorothy Devore
105
Richard Dix
109
Billie Dove
113
Claire DuBrey
117
Virginia Brown faire
121
Bess flowers
127
Howard Gaye
131
Lillian Gish
135
Dagmar Godowsky
141
Jetta Goudal
145
Ethel Grandin
153
Ralph Graves
159
Gilda Gray
163
Corinne Griffith
167
Robert Harron
173
William S Hart
179
Alice Howell
185
Alice Joyce
189
Madge Kennedy
193
Doris Kenyon
199
J Warren Kerrigan
203
Laura La Plante
209
Lon Chaney Charlie Chaplin Greta Garbo Buster Keaton and Rudolph Valentino
215
Harold Lloyd
221
Babe London
225
Conrad Nagel
263
Nita Naldi
267
Mabel Normand
271
Jane Novak
275
George OBrien
281
Gertrude Olmstead
285
Seena Owen
289
Jean Paige
293
Kathryn Perry
297
Olga Petrova
301
Mary Philbin
307
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
311
Arline Pretty
317
Esther Ralston
321
Charles Ray
325
Wallace Reid
329
Billie Rhodes
333
Charles Buddy Rogers
337
Clarine Seymour
341
Lowell Sherman
344
Pauline Starke
349
Gloria Swanson
353
Blanche Sweet
357
Constance Talmadge
369
Norma Talmadge
373
Alice Terry
377
Florence Turner
385
Theda Bara Louise Glaum Kitty Gordon Olga Grey Alice Hollister and Valeska Suratt
389
George Walsh
395
Henry B Walthall
401
Kathlyn Williams
407
Lois Wilson
411
Margery Wilson
415
Claire Windsor
421
Fay Wray
425
Index
429
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Anthony Slide is the author or editor of some sixty books on the history of popular entertainment, & editor of the "Filmmakers" series published by Scarecrow Press. He has served as an associate archivist of the American Film Institute & resident film historian of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. In 1990, in recognition of his work on the history of popular culture, Mr. Slide was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Bowling Green University. Anthony Slide resides in Studio City, California.

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