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• July 28 - Lights of New York
  Lights of New York (1928 film)
  Lights of New York was the first all-talking feature film, released by Warner Brothers and directed by Bryan Foy. The film, which cost only $23,000 to produce, grossed over $1,000,000. It was also the first film to define the crime genre...
  
   is released by Warner Brothers. It is the first "100% Talkie" feature film, in that dialog is spoken throughout the film. Previous releases Don Juan
  Don Juan (1926 film)
  Don Juan is a Warner Brothers film, directed by Alan Crosland. It was the first feature-length film with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack, though it has no spoken dialogue...
  
   and The Jazz Singer
  The Jazz Singer (1927 film)
  The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner Bros. with its Vitaphone sound-on-disc system,...
  
   had used a synchronized soundtrack with sound effects and music, with The Jazz Singer having a few incidental lines spoken by Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
  .

• July 31 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
  
  's mascot Leo the Lion
  Leo the Lion (MGM)
  Leo the Lion is the mascot for the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and one of its predecessors, Goldwyn Pictures, featured in the studio's production logo, which was created by the Paramount Studios art director Lionel S. Reiss....
  
   roars for the very first time, giving voice to one of the most popular American film logos.

• August 17 - The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool is a 1928 musical drama Part-Talkie motion picture which was released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer...
  
  , Warner Brothers' follow-up to The Jazz Singer, is released. While still only a partial-talkie (sequences still featured intertitle
  Intertitle
  In motion pictures, an intertitle is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action, at various points, generally to convey character dialogue, or descriptive narrative material related to, but not necessarily covered by, the material photographed.Intertitles...
  
  s), 66 minutes of the film's 105 minute running time featured dialogue or songs, making it the longest talking motion picture yet. (Lights of New York runs a total of 57 minutes.) It was the highest-grossing film of the year, became Warner Brothers' highest-grossing film for the next 13 years, and was the most financially successful film of Al Jolson's career.

• November 18 - Disney's
  The Walt Disney Company
  The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
  
   Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by The Walt Disney Studio and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse, and as his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters...
  
   premieres. This animated short was the first film to include a soundtrack, completely created in post production, including sound effects, music, and dialogue.

• December 25 - In Old Arizona
  In Old Arizona
  In Old Arizona is a 1929 American Western film directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the story The Caballero's Way by O...
  
  , released by Fox Films, is the first sound-on-film feature-length talkie, utilizing the Movietone
  Movietone sound system
  The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as a variable-density optical track on the same strip of film that records the pictures...
  
   process. Previously, feature-length talkies used the less-reliable Vitaphone
  Vitaphone
  Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...
  
   sound-on-disc process. It is also the first Western talkie, and the first sound film primarily shot outdoors.

Top grossing films

Academy Awards

• Best Actor
  Academy Award for Best Actor
  Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
  
  : Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
  for The Last Command and the 1927 movie The Way of All Flesh
• Best Actress
  Academy Award for Best Actress
  Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role is one of the Academy Awards of merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry...
  
  : Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
  
  for Street Angel and the 1927 movies Seventh Heaven and Sunrise

Films released in 1928

• Across to Singapore
  Across to Singapore
  Across to Singapore is a 1928 silent film by director William Nigh starring Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford. The plot involves a love triangle between a woman and two brothers, set on board ship and in Singapore...
  
  , starring Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino...
  
   and Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
  
• The Actress
  The Actress (1928 film)
  The Actress is a 1928 silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film was directed by Sidney Franklin and starred Norma Shearer....
  
   directed by Sidney Franklin
  Sidney Franklin (director)
  Sidney Franklin was an American film director and producer. His brother Chester Franklin also became a director during the silent film era best known for helming the early Technicolor film Toll of the Sea....
  
  ; starring Norma Shearer
  Norma Shearer
  Edith Norma Shearer was a Canadian-American actress. Shearer was one of the most popular actresses in North America from the mid-1920s through the 1930s...
  
  
• Alraune
  Alraune (1928 film)
  Alraune is a 1928 silent science fiction horror film directed by Henrik Galeen and starring Brigitte Helm in which a prostitute is artificially inseminated with the semen of a hanged man. The story is based upon the legend of Alraune and the powers of the mandrake root to impregnate women...
  
  , starring Brigitte Helm
  Brigitte Helm
  Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.-Career:...
  
   and Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener
  Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.-Stage and early film career:...
  
   - (Germany)
• L'Argent
  L'Argent (1928 film)
  L'Argent is a French silent film directed in 1928 by Marcel L'Herbier. The film was adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, and it portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.-Background:...
  
   (Money), starring Pierre Alcover
  Pierre Alcover
  Pierre Alcover was a French film actor.He starred in 40 films between 1918 and 1943.In 1920 he starred in the film Champi-Tortu...
  
   and Brigitte Helm
  Brigitte Helm
  Brigitte Helm was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis.-Career:...
  
   - (France
  French films of 1928
  A list of films produced in France in 1928:-1928:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database**...
  
  )
• Arsenal
  Arsenal (film)
  Arsenal is a 1928 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko. It is the second film in his "Ukraine Trilogy", the first being Zvenigora and the third being Earth ....
  
   - (U.S.S.R.
  Soviet films of 1928
  A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1928 .-1928:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
  
  )
• The Awakening
  The Awakening (1928 film)
  The Awakening is a feature film directed by Victor Fleming.-Cast:*Vilma Bánky as Marie Ducrot*Walter Byron as Count Karl von Hagen*Louis Wolheim as Le Bete*George Davis as The Orderly*William Orlamond as Grandfather Ducrot...
  
  , directed by Victor Fleming
  Victor Fleming
  Victor Lonzo Fleming was an American film director, cinematographer, and producer. His most popular films were The Wizard of Oz , and Gone with the Wind , for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.-Life and career:Fleming was born in La Canada, California, the son of Elizabeth Evaleen ...
  
  , starring Vilma Banky
  Vilma Bánky
  Vilma Bánky was a Hungarian-born American silent film actress, although the early part of her acting career began in Budapest, spreading to France, Austria, and Germany...
  
   and Louis Wolheim
  Louis Wolheim
  Louis Wolheim was an American character actor.His trademark broken nose was the result of an injury sustained while playing football for Cornell University. Despite his rugged visage, Wolheim was intelligent and cultivated, speaking French, German, Spanish, and Yiddish. He was also a mathematics...
  
  
• Balaclava
  Balaclava (film)
  Balaclava is a 1928 British war film directed by Maurice Elvey and Milton Rosmer and starring Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume, Alf Goddard, Harold Huth and Wally Patch. A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War and succeeds in capturing a top Russian...
  
   - (U.K.)
• Beau Sabreur
  Beau Sabreur
  Beau Sabreur is a 1928 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by John Waters and starred Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent. The plot was based on a novel by P. C. Wren. Only a trailer exists of this film...
  
  , directed by John Waters, starring Gary Cooper
  Gary Cooper
  Frank James Cooper, known professionally as Gary Cooper, was an American film actor. He was renowned for his quiet, understated acting style and his stoic, but at times intense screen persona, which was particularly well suited to the many Westerns he made...
  
   and Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
  
  
• Beggars of Life
  Beggars of Life
  Beggars of Life is an early sound film with talking sequences starring Wallace Beery as a rail-riding hobo and Louise Brooks as a girl on the run. Based on a novel called Beggars of Life by Jim Tully, the film is often regarded as Brooks's best American movie...
  
  , directed by William Wellman, starring Wallace Beery
  Wallace Beery
  Wallace Fitzgerald Beery was an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill in Min and Bill opposite Marie Dressler, as Long John Silver in Treasure Island, as Pancho Villa in Viva Villa!, and his titular role in The Champ, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
  
   and Louise Brooks
  Louise Brooks
  Mary Louise Brooks , generally known by her stage name Louise Brooks, was an American dancer, model, showgirl and silent film actress, noted for popularizing the bobbed haircut. Brooks is best known for her three feature roles including two G. W...
  
  
• The Big City
  The Big City (1928 film)
  The Big City is a 1928 crime film directed by Tod Browning. It is now a lost film. The last known print of the film had been sent to Australia in the late 1950s...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
  
• The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple
  The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple
  The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple is a Chinese silent film serial directed by Zhang Shichuan. The film, adapted from the novel The Tale of the Extraordinary Swordsman, focuses on the rescue of a commander held captive in a temple full of traps....
  
   (Huo shao hong lian si) - (China
  Chinese films of the 1920s
  This is a list of films produced in mainland China ordered by year of release in the 1920s. For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see :Category:Chinese films-1920s:-See also:*Cinema of China...
  
  ) - Released in 18 parts as the film runs for a total of 27 hours
• The Cameraman, a Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   film
• Champagne
  Champagne (film)
  Champagne is a silent comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by English writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft...
  
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
   - (U.K.)
• The Circus
  The Circus (silent film)
  The Circus is a 1928 silent film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin with Joseph Plunkett as an uncredited writer. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman...
  
  , starring, directed and written by Charles Chaplin
• The Cossacks
  The Cossacks (1928 film)
  The Cossacks is a 1928 silent film produced and distributed by MGM and directed by George Hill and Clarence Brown, with much reshot footage by Brown. The picture starred John Gilbert and Renee Adoree. It is an extant film...
  
   starring John Gilbert
  John Gilbert (actor)
  John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw...
  
  , Renee Adoree
  Renée Adorée
  Renée Adorée was a French actress who had appeared in Hollywood silent movies during the 1920s.-Early life:...
  
   and Ernest Torrence
  Ernest Torrence
  Ernest Torrence was a Scottish born film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including Broken Chains with Colleen Moore,Mantrap with Clara Bow, and Fighting Caravans with Gary Cooper and Lili Damita...
  
  
• The Crowd
  The Crowd
  The Crowd is a 1928 American silent film directed by King Vidor. It is notable for its dramatization of the concerns and dangers of urbanization and modernity....
  
  , directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
  
  
• Dawn, directed by Herbert Wilcox
  Herbert Wilcox
  Herbert Sydney Wilcox was a British film producer and director.-Early life:Wilcox's mother was from County Cork, Ireland, but he was born in Norwood and attended school in Brighton...
  
  , starring Sybil Thorndike
  Sybil Thorndike
  Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike CH DBE was a British actress.-Early life:She was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire to Arthur Thorndike and Agnes Macdonald. Her father was a Canon of Rochester Cathedral...
  
   - (U.K.)
• The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman
  The Divine Woman is an American silent film directed by Victor Sjöström and starring Greta Garbo. Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was Garbo's fifth Hollywood film. Only a single nine-minute reel is currently known to exist of this otherwise lost film...
  
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
  
• The Docks of New York
  The Docks of New York
  The Docks of New York is a silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Baclanova. It tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love...
  
  , directed by Josef von Sternberg
  Josef von Sternberg
  Josef von Sternberg — born Jonas Sternberg — was an Austrian-American film director. He is particularly noted for his distinctive mise en scène, use of lighting and soft lens, and seven-film collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich.-Youth:Von Sternberg was born Jonas Sternberg to a Jewish...
  
  , starring George Bancroft
  George Bancroft (actor)
  George Bancroft was an American Hollywood film actor of the 1920s and '30s.-Biography:Bancroft was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1882. During his early days as a sailor he staged plays on board ship. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy, but left the Navy to become a "black...
  
  , Betty Compson
  Betty Compson
  Betty Compson was an American actress. Born Eleanor Luicime Compson in Beaver, Utah, she had an extensive film career. Her father died when she was young, and she was forced to drop out of school and earn a living for herself and her mother...
  
   and Olga Baclanova
  Olga Baclanova
  Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova, or Baklanova, was a Russian-born actress, who achieved prominence during the silent film era. She was billed as the Russian Tigress and remains most noted by modern audiences for portraying the leading lady in Tod Browning's unique horror movie Freaks , which features...
  
  
• Easy Virtue, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
   - (U.K.)
• The Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher) - (France)
• The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer's Wife
  The Farmer’s Wife is a silent film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.It was based on a play of the same name by British novelist, poet and playwright Eden Phillpotts, best known for a series of novels based on Dartmoor, in Devon.-Synopsis:...
  
  , directed by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
   - (U.K.)
• Feel My Pulse
  Feel My Pulse
  Feel My Pulse is a 1928 silent film about a wealthy hypochondriac, played by Bebe Daniels, who inherits a sanatorium and finds love and adventure...
  
  , starring Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels
  Bebe Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began her career in Hollywood during the silent movie era as a child actress, became a star in musicals like 42nd Street, and later gained further fame on radio and television in Britain...
  
  , Richard Arlen
  Richard Arlen
  -Biography:Born Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore in St. Paul, Minnesota, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. His first job after the war was with St. Paul's Athletic Club...
  
   and William Powell
  William Powell
  William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...
  
  
• Four Sons
  Four Sons
  Four Sons is a silent drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie. It is one of only a handful of survivors out of the more than fifty silent films that Ford directed between 1917 and 1928. It starred Margaret Mann, James...
  
  , directed by John Ford
  John Ford
  John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
  
  
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (lost film)
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was a silent film directed by Mal St. Clair, co-written by Anita Loos based on her novel, and released by Paramount Pictures. No copies are known to exist, and it is now considered to be a lost film...
  
  , starring Ruth Taylor
  Ruth Taylor (actress)
  Ruth Taylor was an American actress in silent films and early talkies. Her son is the writer Buck Henry.-Early years:Born Ruth Alice Taylor to Norman and Ivah Taylor in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
  
   and Alice White, subtitle
  Subtitle (captioning)
  Subtitles are textual versions of the dialog in films and television programs, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. They can either be a form of written translation of a dialog in a foreign language, or a written rendering of the dialog in the same language, with or without added...
  
  s written by Anita Loos
  Anita Loos
  Anita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...
  
  
• A Girl in Every Port
  A Girl in Every Port (1928 film)
  A Girl in Every Port is a silent comedy film about two sailors. Renowned stripper Sally Rand played one of their many girlfriends.The film was remade as Goldie in 1931, with Spencer Tracy, Warren Hymer, and Jean Harlow.-Cast:...
  
  
• The Godless Girl
  The Godless Girl
  The Godless Girl is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shown for years as his last completely silent film.-Production background:...
  
  , directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
  
  
• Hangman's House
  Hangman's House
  Hangman's House is a 1928 romantic drama genre silent film set in Co. Wicklow, Ireland, directed by John Ford with intertitles written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan. It is based on a novel by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne. It was adapted by Philip Klein with scenarios by Marion Orth...
  
  
• Homecoming
  Homecoming (1928 film)
  Homecoming is a 1928 German film directed by Joe May.- Plot :Richard and Karl are German prisoners of war in Siberia. Since escape is almost impossible, they are unguarded and live an almost idyllic existence running a ferry...
  
   (Heimkehr) - (Germany)
• The House on Trubnaya
  The House on Trubnaya
  The House on Trubnaya is a 1928 comedy film directed by Boris Barnet and starring Vera Maretskaya.-Cast:* Vera Maretskaya - Parasha Pitunova - housemaid* Vladimir Fogel - Mr. Golikov - hairdresser* Yelena Tyapkina - Mrs...
  
   (Дом на Трубной), directed by Boris Barnet - (U.S.S.R.)
• In Old Arizona
  In Old Arizona
  In Old Arizona is a 1929 American Western film directed by Irving Cummings and Raoul Walsh, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which was based on the character of the Cisco Kid in the story The Caballero's Way by O...
  
  
• Interference
  Interference (film)
  Interference is an early sound film drama released in 1928 and starring William Powell and Evelyn Brent. This was Paramount Pictures' first ever full talking movie. It was also simultaneously filmed as a silent. The film was based on the play Interference, a Play in Three Acts by Roland Pertwee and...
  
  , Paramount's first ever all talking movie
• Jujiro
  Jujiro
  , also known as Crossroads, Crossways, Shadows of the Yoshiwara or Slums of Tokyo, is a 1928 silent Japanese film drama by directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.- Cast :* Akiko Chihaya as Okiku* Junosuke Bando as Rikiya* Yukiko Ogawa as O-ume...
  
   - (Japan
  Japanese films of the 1920s
  A incomplete list of films produced in Japan ordered by year in the 1920s. For an A-Z of films see :Category:Japanese films. Also see cinema of Japan.- 1920s :-1922:-1923:-1924:-1925:-1926:-1927:-1928:-1929:-External links:...
  
  )
• King Cowboy
• Ladies of the Mob
  Ladies of the Mob
  Ladies of the Mob was a silent film directed by William Wellman, produced by Jesse L. Lasky and Adolph Zukor for Famous Players-Lasky, and distributed by Paramount Pictures.-Production:The film is based on a story by Ernest Booth...
  
  , starring Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
  
  , Richard Arlen
  Richard Arlen
  -Biography:Born Sylvanus Richard Van Mattimore in St. Paul, Minnesota, he attended the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. His first job after the war was with St. Paul's Athletic Club...
  
   and Helen Lynch
  Helen Lynch
  Helen Lynch was an American silent-film actress.She was born in Billings, Montana where she was also raised. After winning a beauty contest conducted in her hometown, she soon went to movie studios and received little trouble gaining roles, starting out as an extra in 1918...
  
  
• The Last Command
  The Last Command (film)
  The Last Command is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró. Star Emil Jannings won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in this film and The Way of All...
  
  , directed by Joseph von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
  , Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent
  Evelyn Brent was an American film and stage actress.-Early life:Born Mary Elizabeth Riggs in Tampa, Florida and known as Betty, she was a child of 10 when her mother Eleanor died, leaving her father Arthur to raise her alone...
  
   and William Powell
  William Powell
  William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...
  
  
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh
  Laugh, Clown, Laugh
  Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 silent film starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young. The movie was directed by Herbert Brenon and produced and released through MGM Studios.-Cast:*Lon Chaney - Tito/Flick*Loretta Young - Simonetta...
  
  , starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
   and Loretta Young
  Loretta Young
  Loretta Young was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953...
  
  
• Lights of New York
  Lights of New York (1928 film)
  Lights of New York was the first all-talking feature film, released by Warner Brothers and directed by Bryan Foy. The film, which cost only $23,000 to produce, grossed over $1,000,000. It was also the first film to define the crime genre...
  
  
• A Little Bit of Fluff
  A Little Bit of Fluff
  A Little Bit of Fluff or Skirts is a comedy genre silent film made in England, starring Syd Chaplin and Betty Balfour, and directed by Wheeler Dryden and Jess Robbins.-Production background:...
  
  , starring Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin
  Sydney Chaplin was an English actor. He was the elder half-brother of Sir Charlie Chaplin and served as his business manager, and the half-uncle of the actor Sydney Chaplin , who was named after him.-Early life:...
  
   and Betty Balfour
  Betty Balfour
  Betty Balfour was an English screen actress, popular during the silent era, and known as the "British Mary Pickford" and "Britain's Queen of Happiness"...
  
   - (U.K.)
• The Man Who Laughs
  The Man Who Laughs (1928 film)
  The Man Who Laughs is an American silent film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name and stars Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine and Mary Philbin as the blind Dea...
  
  , directed by Paul Leni
  Paul Leni
  Paul Leni born Paul Josef Levi was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionist filmmaking, making Backstairs and Waxworks in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary , The Chinese Parrot , The Man Who Laughs , and The Last Warning in...
  
  , starring Conrad Veidt
  Conrad Veidt
  Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari , The Man Who Laughs , The Thief of Bagdad and Casablanca...
  
   and Mary Philbin
  Mary Philbin
  Mary Philbin was a notable film actress of the silent film era. Philbin is probably best remembered for playing the roles of Christine Daaé in the 1925 film The Phantom of the Opera opposite screen legend Lon Chaney and Dea in The Man Who Laughs...
  
  
• The Matinee Idol
  The Matinee Idol
  The Matinee Idol is a 1928 silent romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, and starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker. A Broadway star falls in love with a woman who does not know his real identity....
  
  , directed by Frank Capra
  Frank Capra
  Frank Russell Capra was a Sicilian-born American film director. He emigrated to the U.S. when he was six, and eventually became a creative force behind major award-winning films during the 1930s and 1940s...
  
  , starring Bessie Love
  Bessie Love
  Bessie Love was an American motion picture actress who achieved prominence mainly in the silent films and early talkies. With a small frame and delicate features, she played innocent young girls, flappers, and wholesome leading ladies. Her role in The Broadway Melody earned her a nomination for...
  
   and Johnnie Walker.
• The Midnight Taxi
  The Midnight Taxi
  The Midnight Taxi is a 1928 early part-talkie melodrama picture from Warner Brothers directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Antonio Moreno, Helen Costello and Myrna Loy. It is unknown whether a copy survives, but a silent copy with no talking is in the care of the British Film Institute. The...
  
  
• Mother Machree
  Mother Machree
  Mother Machree is a 1928 silent film, directed by John Ford, based on a novel by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. John Wayne had a minor role in the film.-Cast:* Belle Bennett as Mother Machree...
  
  , directed by John Ford
  John Ford
  John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
  
  
• The Mysterious Lady
  The Mysterious Lady
  The Mysterious Lady is an MGM silent film starring Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, and Gustav von Seyffertitz, directed by Fred Niblo, and based on the novel War in the Dark by Ludwig Wolff.-Synopsis:...
  
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
   and Conrad Nagel
  Conrad Nagel
  Conrad Nagel was an American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well-known television actor and radio performer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Noah's Ark, starring George O'Brien
• The Noose
  The Noose (film)
  The Noose is a silent film adaptation of the Willard Mack play The Noose, which was released in 1928, and stars Richard Barthelmess, Montagu Love, Robert Emmett O'Connor and Thelma Todd. The movie was adapted by Garrett Graham and James T. O'Donohoe from the play...
  
  , starring Richard Barthelmess
  Richard Barthelmess
  Richard Semler "Dick" Barthelmess was an Oscar-nominated silent film star.-Early life:Barthelmess was educated at Hudson River Military Academy at Nyack and Trinity College at Hartford, Connecticut...
  
  
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir), directed by Sergei Eisenstein
  Sergei Eisenstein
  Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...
  
   - (U.S.S.R.)
• On Trial
  On Trial
  On Trial is an early talking drama film produced and distributed by Warner Brothers and directed by Archie Mayo. The picture stars Pauline Frederick, Lois Wilson, Bert Lytell, Holmes Herbert and Jason Robards. Obviously a film where many a silent player was crossing over to sound for the first...
  
  , sound film
  Sound film
  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 exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...
  
  , starring Pauline Frederick
  Pauline Frederick
  Pauline Frederick was a leading Broadway actress who later became known for her motion picture work.-Early years:...
  
   and Bert Lytell
  Bert Lytell
  Bert Lytell , Born Bertram Lytell, he was a popular screen star of the silent film era who starred in romantic, melodrama and adventure films....
  
  
• Our Dancing Daughters
  Our Dancing Daughters
  Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown , about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg...
  
  , starring Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
   and Johnny Mack Brown
  Johnny Mack Brown
  Johnny Mack Brown was an All-American college football player and film actor originally billed as John Mack Brown at the height of his screen career.-Early life:...
  
  
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the record of the trial of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti...
  
   (La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Danish film director. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.-Life:Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark...
  
  , starring Maria Falconetti - (France)
• The Patsy
  The Patsy (1928 film)
  The Patsy is a 1928 silent comedy/drama film directed by King Vidor, produced and starring Marion Davies for her Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
  
  , directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
  
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
   and Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler
  Marie Dressler was a Canadian-American actress and Depression-era film star. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1930-31 in Min and Bill.-Early life and stage career:...
  
  
• The Power of the Press
  The Power of the Press
  The Power of the Press is a 1928 silent film directed by Frank Capra and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr as an aspiring newspaper reporter and Jobyna Ralston as a young woman suspected of murder....
  
  
• Ramona
  Ramona (1928 film)
  Ramona is a 1928 silent drama film directed by Edwin Carewe, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. It starred Dolores del Rio and Warner Baxter....
  
  
• The Red Dance
• Red Hair
  Red Hair (1928 film)
  Red Hair is a 1928 silent film starring Clara Bow and Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures....
  
  , starring Clara Bow
  Clara Bow
  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in the silent film era of the 1920s. It was her appearance as a spunky shopgirl in the film It that brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl." Bow came to personify the roaring twenties and is described as its leading sex...
  
  
• The Road to Ruin
  The Road to Ruin (1928 film)
  The Road to Ruin is a 1928 silent black-and-white exploitation film directed by Norton S. Parker. The film is about a teenage girl, Sally Canfield, whose life is ruined by sex and drugs. The film was the top grossing movie of 1928 and was remade as a talkie in 1934.-Cast:*Helen Foster as Sally...
  
  
• Rose-Marie
  Rose-Marie (1928 film)
  Rose-Marie was a 1928 drama film directed by Lucien Hubbard. It is the first of three MGM adaptations of the 1924 Broadway musical Rose-Marie The best-known film adaptation was released in 1936; another film was released in 1954. All three versions are set in the Canadian wilderness...
  
  , starring James Murray
  James Murray (actor)
  James Murray was an American movie actor.-Background:Born in The Bronx, New York, James Murray went to Hollywood in the 1920s to try to succeed as an actor. After several years of work, mostly as an extra, with little hope of a starring role, he was "discovered" by director King Vidor, who saw...
  
   and Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
  
• Sadie Thompson
  Sadie Thompson
  Sadie Thompson is an American silent film that tells the story of a "fallen woman" who comes to Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco. The film stars Gloria Swanson, Lionel...
  
  , starring Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson
  Gloria Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the...
  
   and Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...
  
  
• The Seashell and the Clergyman
  The Seashell and the Clergyman
  The Seashell and the Clergyman is considered by many to be the first surrealist film.-Production background:The film was directed by Germaine Dulac, from an original scenario by Antonin Artaud, and premiered in Paris on 9 February 1928...
  
   (La Coquille et le clergyman) - (France)
• Sex in Chains
  Sex in Chains
  Sex in Chains , original German title Geschlecht in Fesseln, is a silent film directed by William Dieterle.-Plot:The film opens with Franz Sommer and his newlywed wife, Helene . They are going through hard times, and Sommer is without steady employment, partly due to his honest-to-a-fault nature...
  
   (Geschlecht in Fesseln), starring and directed by William Dieterle
  William Dieterle
  William Dieterle was a German actor and film director, who worked in Hollywood for much of his career. His best known films include The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Story of Louis Pasteur and The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
  
   - (Germany)
• Show People
  Show People
  Show People is a 1928 comedy silent film directed by King Vidor. The movie was a starring vehicle for actress Marion Davies and actor William Haines and included notable cameo appearances by many of the film personalities of the day, including stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, William S....
  
  , directed by King Vidor
  King Vidor
  King Wallis Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter whose career spanned nearly seven decades...
  
  , starring Marion Davies
  Marion Davies
  Marion Davies was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career....
  
  
• The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool
  The Singing Fool is a 1928 musical drama Part-Talkie motion picture which was released by Warner Brothers. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Jazz Singer...
  
  , starring Al Jolson
  Al Jolson
  Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
  
   and Betty Bronson
  Betty Bronson
  Betty Bronson was an American television and film actress who began her career during the silent film era. She was a famous actress in silent and sound films.-Film career:...
  
  
• Sins of the Fathers
  Sins of the Fathers (1928 film)
  Sins of the Fathers is a 1928 silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Ludwig Berger and stars Emil Jannings and Ruth Chatterton in her motion picture debut.-Cast:...
  
   starring Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
   and Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton
  Ruth Chatterton was an American actress, novelist, and early aviatrix.- Early life :Chatterton was born in New York City, on Christmas Eve 1892, to Walter Smith and Lillian Reed Chatterton...
  
  
• Skyscraper, directed by Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil B. DeMille
  Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...
  
  , starring William Boyd
  William Boyd
  William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock , Scottish nobleman*William Boyd William Boyd may refer to:*William Boyd, 3rd Earl of Kilmarnock (died 1717), Scottish nobleman*William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock (1704–1746),...
  
  , Alan Hale
  Alan Hale
  Alan Hale may refer to:*Alan Hale, Sr. , American actor; played Little John in three different Robin Hood films*Alan Hale, Jr. , American actor in television show Gilligan's Island; son of Alan Hale, Sr....
  
  , Sue Carol
  Sue Carol
  Sue Carol was an American actress and talent agent.While at a social function in Los Angeles in 1927, a director offered her a part in a film. She took it and began playing minor parts...
  
   and Alberta Vaughn
  Alberta Vaughn
  Alberta Vaughn was an American actress in silent motion pictures and early Western sound films. She appeared in some 130 motion pictures.-Career:...
  
  
• The Smart Set
  The Smart Set (1928 film)
  The Smart Set is a silent film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Jack Conway, and starring William Haines, Jack Holt, and Alice Day. Haines plays a self-centered polo player who has to redeem himself after he is kicked off the U.S...
  
  , starring William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
  
  , Jack Holt
  Jack Holt (actor)
  Jack Holt was an American motion picture actor. He was a leading man of silent and sound films, and was known for his many roles in Westerns.-Early life:...
  
  , and Alice Day
  Alice Day
  Alice Day was a film actor who began her career as of the Sennett Bathing Beauties....
  
  .
• Speedy
  Speedy (film)
  Speedy is a 1928 silent film that was one of the films to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy. It starred famous comedian Harold Lloyd in the eponymous leading role, and it was his last silent film to be released in theatres. The film was written by Albert...
  
  , starring Harold Lloyd
  Harold Lloyd
  Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....
  
  
• Spione
  Spione
  Spione is a German silent espionage thriller written and directed by Fritz Lang in 1928. Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou, worked as a co-writer. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film, and the first for his own production company; Fritz Lang-film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, such as Dr...
  
   (Spies), directed by Fritz Lang
  Fritz Lang
  Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
  
   - (Germany)
• Steamboat Bill Jr.
  Steamboat Bill Jr.
  Steamboat Bill Jr. is a 1928 feature-length comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and proved to be the last picture Keaton would make for...
  
  , a Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   film
• Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie
  Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by The Walt Disney Studio and released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse, and as his girlfriend Minnie, but the characters...
  
  , a Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
  
   Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...
  
   short
• Storm Over Asia
  Storm Over Asia
  Storm Over Asia is a 1928 Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, written by Osip Brik, Ivan Novokshonov and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother and The End of St...
  
   (Potomok Chingis-Khana), starring Valéry Inkijinoff - (U.S.S.R.)
• Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor
  Janet Gaynor was an American actress and painter.One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven , Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans and Street Angel...
  
   and Charles Farrell
  Charles Farrell
  Charles Farrell was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor...
  
  
• Sweeney Todd
  Sweeney Todd (1928 film)
  Sweeney Todd is a 1928 British thriller film directed by Walter West and starring Moore Marriott, Zoe Palmer and Iris Darbyshire. It was adapted from a play by George Dibdin-Pitt based on the legend of Sweeney Todd.-Cast:* Moore Marriott - Sweeney Todd...
  
   - (U.K.)
• Tempest, starring John Barrymore
  John Barrymore
  John Sidney Blyth , better known as John Barrymore, was an acclaimed American actor. He first gained fame as a handsome stage actor in light comedy, then high drama and culminating in groundbreaking portrayals in Shakespearean plays Hamlet and Richard III...
  
  , Camilla Horn
  Camilla Horn
  Camilla Horn was a former German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.-Biography:...
  
   and George Fawcett
  George Fawcett
  George Fawcett was an American stage and film actor of the silent era. On stage he appeared in such plays as Ghosts with the controversial Mary Shaw, The Squaw Man with William Faversham, The Great John Ganton with an up-and-coming actress Laurette Taylor in the cast and Getting A Polish with...
  
  
• The Terror
  The Terror (1928 film)
  The Terror is a 1928 "mystery melodrama" written by Harvey Gates and directed by Roy Del Ruth, based on a play by Edgar Wallace. It was the second "all-talking" motion picture released by Warner Bros...
  
  , starring May McAvoy
  May McAvoy
  May McAvoy was an American actress, who worked mainly during the silent film era. She starred in Hollywood's revolutionary part talking film, The Jazz Singer.-Career:...
  
  , Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton
  Edward Everett Horton was an American character actor. He had a long career in film, theater, radio, television and voice work for animated cartoons. He is especially known for his work in the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.-Early life:Horton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Isabella...
  
  , and Louise Fazenda
  Louise Fazenda
  Louise Fazenda was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.-Early life:Of Portuguese ancestry, she was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker. After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent...
  
  
• Thérèse Raquin
  Thérèse Raquin (1928 film)
  Thérèse Raquin is a 1928 drama film directed by Jacques Feyder. It is the third silent film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Émile Zola. The film stars Gina Manès as Thérèse Raquin, Wolfgang Zilzer as Monsieur Raquin, and Jeanne Marie Laurent as Madame Raquin. The décors of the Paris...
  
  , directed by Jacques Feyder
  Jacques Feyder
  Jacques Feyder was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema...
  
   - (France)
• Three Sinners
  Three Sinners
  Three Sinners is a 1928 silent film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Pola Negri and co-starring Warner Baxter, Olga Baclanova and Paul Lukas. the film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on a play Das Zweite Leben by Rudolf Bernauer and...
  
   starring Pola Negri
  Pola Negri
  Pola Negri was a Polish stage and film actress who achieved worldwide fame for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles from the 1910s through the 1940s during the Golden Era of Hollywood film. She was the first European film star to be invited to Hollywood, and became a great American star. She...
  
  , Warner Baxter
  Warner Baxter
  Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
  
   and Olga Baclanova
  Olga Baclanova
  Olga Vladimirovna Baclanova, or Baklanova, was a Russian-born actress, who achieved prominence during the silent film era. She was billed as the Russian Tigress and remains most noted by modern audiences for portraying the leading lady in Tod Browning's unique horror movie Freaks , which features...
  
  
• Tillie's Punctured Romance
  Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928 film)
  Tillie's Punctured Romance is a 1928 circus comedy starring W. C. Fields as a ringmaster and Louise Fazenda as a runaway. Written by Monte Brice and Keene Thompson and directed by A. Edward Sutherland, this movie has nothing to do with the revered 1914 Charles Chaplin film aside from sharing the...
  
  , starring W.C. Fields, Louise Fazenda
  Louise Fazenda
  Louise Fazenda was an American film actress, appearing chiefly in silent comedy films.-Early life:Of Portuguese ancestry, she was born in Lafayette, Indiana. Her father, Joseph Fazenda, was a merchandise broker. After moving west Louise attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent...
  
   and Chester Conklin
  Chester Conklin
  Chester Cooper Conklin was an American comedian and actor. He appeared in over 280 films, about half of them in the silent era.-Early life:...
  
  
• Underground
  Underground (1928 film)
  Underground is a British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, and Norah Baring. An electrician and a porter both fall in love with a shop girl they meet on the London Underground....
  
  , directed by Anthony Asquith
  Anthony Asquith
  Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...
  
   - (U.K.)
• The Viking
  The Viking (1928 film)
  The Viking was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3.-Production background:...
  
   - the first feature-length Technicolor
  Technicolor
  Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...
  
   film
• The Wedding March, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim
  Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...
  
   with Fay Wray
  Fay Wray
  Fay Wray was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong...
  
   and Zasu Pitts
  ZaSu Pitts
  ZaSu Pitts was an American actress who starred in many silent dramas and comedies, transitioning to comedy sound films.-Early life:ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas to Rulandus and Nellie Pitts; she was the third of four children...
  
  
• We Faw Down
  We Faw Down
  We Faw Down is a 1928 two-reel silent comedy starring Laurel and Hardy and directed by Leo McCarey. It was shot in August and September 1928, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on December 29 of that year, with synchronized music and sound effects in theaters wired for sound.The plot line was...
  
  , starring Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
  
  
• West of Zanzibar, starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney, Sr.
  Lon Chaney , nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces," was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema...
  
   and Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore
  Lionel Barrymore was an American actor of stage, screen and radio. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul...
  
  
• West Point
  West Point (1928 film)
  West Point is a 1928 silent romantic drama film starring William Haines and Joan Crawford in a story about an arrogant cadet who finds love and discipline just in time for the big Army-Navy game. The story and screenplay were written by Raymond L. Schrock with titles written by Joseph Farnham. The...
  
  , starring William Haines
  William Haines
  Charles William "Billy" Haines was an American film actor and interior designer. He was a star of the silent era until the 1930s, when Haines' career was cut short by MGM Studios due to his refusal to deny his homosexuality...
  
   and Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford
  Joan Crawford , born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre....
  
  
• While the City Sleeps
  While the City Sleeps (1928 film)
  While the City Sleeps, is a 1928 silent film, about a tough New York City police detective, played by Lon Chaney, out to get a murdering gangster...
  
  , directed by Jack Conway; starring Lon Chaney
  Lon Chaney
  Chaney is an American surname of French origin, and may refer to:* Charles "Bubba" Chaney , Louisiana politician* Chris Chaney, US musician* Darrel Chaney, US baseball player* Don Chaney, US basketballer* Esty Chaney , US baseballer...
  
  
• White Shadows in the South Seas
  White Shadows in the South Seas
  White Shadows in the South Seas is a silent film adventure romance produced by Cosmopolitan Productions in association with MGM and distributed by MGM. The movie was directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starred Monte Blue and Raquel Torres...
  
  , starring Monte Blue
  Monte Blue
  Monte Blue was a movie actor who began his career as a romantic leading man in the silent film era, and later progressed to character roles....
  
   and Raquel Torres
  Raquel Torres
  Raquel Torres was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres....
  
  
• The Wind
  The Wind
  The Wind is a 1928 American dramatic silent film directed by Victor Sjöström. The movie was adapted by Frances Marion from the novel The Wind written by Dorothy Scarborough. It features Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, and others...
  
  , directed by Victor Sjostrom
  Victor Sjöström
  Victor Sjöström was a Swedish actor, screenwriter, and film director.- Biography:Born in Silbodal, in the Värmland region of Sweden, he was only a year old when his father, Olof Adolf Sjöström, moved the family to Brooklyn, New York. His mother died when he was seven years old in 1886...
  
  , starring Lillian Gish
  Lillian Gish
  Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....
  
   and Lars Hanson
  Lars Hanson
  Lars Hanson was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.-Biography:...
  
  
• A Woman of Affairs
  A Woman of Affairs
  A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Lewis Stone...
  
  , starring Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo
  Greta Garbo , born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress. Garbo was an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods. Many of Garbo's films were sensational hits, and all but three were profitable...
  
   and John Gilbert
  John Gilbert (actor)
  John Gilbert was an American actor and a major star of the silent film era.Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw...
  
  

Short film series

• Buster Keaton
  Buster Keaton
  Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...
  
   (1917–1941)
• Our Gang
  Our Gang
  Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, the series is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively...
  
   (1922
  1922 in film
  -Events:* June 11 - United States première of Robert J. Flaherty's Nanook of the North, the first commercially successful feature length documentary film....
  
  -1944
  1944 in film
  The year 1944 in film involved some significant events, including the wholesome, award-winning Going My Way plus popular murder mysteries such as Double Indemnity, Gaslight and Laura.-Events:*July 20 - Since You Went Away is released....
  
  )
• Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy
  Laurel and Hardy were one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comedy double acts of the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema...
  
   (1921-1943
  1943 in film
  The year 1943 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 3 - 1st missing persons telecast * February 20 - American film studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor films....
  
  )

Animated short film series

• Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat
  Felix the Cat is a cartoon character created in the silent film era. His black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of the situations in which his cartoons place him, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history...
  
   (1919
  1919 in film
  The year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...
  
  -1936
  1936 in film
  The year 1936 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May 29 - Fritz Lang's first Hollywood film Fury, starring Spencer Tracy and Bruce Cabot, is released.*November 6 - first Porky Pig animated cartoon...
  
  )
• Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables
  Aesop's Film Fables was a series of animated short subjects, created by American cartoonist Paul Terry. Terry came upon the inspiration for the series by young actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook, who suggested making a series of cartoons based on Aesop's Fables. Although Terry later claimed he...
  
   (1921
  1921 in film
  -Top grossing films :-Films released in 1921:U.S.A. unless stated*$10,000 Under a Pillow, silent film directed by Frank Moser*The Ace of Hearts, silent film directed by Wallace Worsley*Across the Divide, silent film directed by John Holloway...
  
  -1933
  1933 in film
  -Events:* March 2 - King Kong premieres in New York City.* June 6 - The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey.* British Film Institute founded....
  
  )
• Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat
  Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run...
  
   (1925
  1925 in film
  -Events:*November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premier*December 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars -Top grossing films :...
  
  -1940
  1940 in film
  The year 1940 in film involved some significant events, including the premieres of the Walt Disney classics Pinocchio and Fantasia.-Events:*February 7 - Walt Disney's animated film Pinocchio is released....
  
  )
• Inkwell Imps
  Koko the Clown
  Koko the Clown was an animated character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. The character originated when Max Fleischer invented the rotoscope, a device that allowed for animation to be more lifelike by tracing motion picture footage of human movement. To test out his new invention...
  
   (1927
  1927 in film
  -Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...
  
  -1929
  1929 in film
  -Events:The days of the silent film are numbered. A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound is on.*January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona is released. The film is the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors....
  
  )
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
  Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Pictures in the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  
  • Harem Scarem
  • Neck 'n' Neck
  • The Ol' Swimmin' Hole
  • Africa Before Dark
  • Rival Romeos
  • Bright Lights
  • Oh, What a Knight
  • Sagebrush Sadie
  • Ride'em Plow Boy
  • Sky Scrappers
  • Ozzie of the Mounted
  • Hungry Hoboes
  • Poor Papa
  • The Fox Chase
  • Tall Timber
  • Sleigh Bells
  • Hot Dog
• Newslaffs (1927
  1927 in film
  -Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...
  
  -1928)
• Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse
  Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at The Walt Disney Studio. Mickey is an anthropomorphic black mouse and typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves...
  
  
  • Plane Crazy
  • Gallopin' Gaucho
  • Steamboat Willie
  • The Barn Dance

Births

• January 7 - William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....
  
  , screenwriter
• January 26 - Roger Vadim
  Roger Vadim
  Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, director, and producer as well as a journalist, author and actor, who launched Brigitte Bardot's career in the film And God Created Woman.-Early life:...
  
  , director, screenwriter, actor
• February 1 - Stuart Whitman
  Stuart Whitman
  Stuart Maxwell Whitman is an American actor.Stuart Whitman is arguably best-known for playing Marshal Jim Crown in the western television series Cimarron Strip in 1967...
  
  , film & television actor
• February 11 - Conrad Janis
  Conrad Janis
  Conrad Janis is an American jazz musician and also a theatre, film, and television actor. In the fall of 1953, he played eldest son Edward in the Ezio Pinza situation comedy Bonino on NBC...
  
  , actor.
• February 29 - Tempest Storm
  Tempest Storm
  Tempest Storm is the stage name of an American stripper, burlesque star, and motion picture actress. Along with Lili St. Cyr and Blaze Starr, she was one of the best known burlesque performers of the 1950s and 1960s. She is regarded as having one of the longest careers as a burlesque performer,...
  
  , burlesque
  American burlesque
  American Burlesque is a genre of variety show. Derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall and minstrel shows, burlesque shows in America became popular in the 1860s and evolved to feature ribald comedy and female striptease...
  
   performer, actress
• March 1 - Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette
  Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....
  
  , film director
• March 19 - Patrick McGoohan
  Patrick McGoohan
  Patrick Joseph McGoohan was an American-born actor, raised in Ireland and England, with an extensive stage and film career, most notably in the 1960s television series Danger Man , and The Prisoner, which he co-created...
  
  , actor (d. 2009)
• March 24 - Vanessa Brown
  Vanessa Brown
  Vanessa Brown was an Austrian-American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television.-Early life:...
  
   (d. 1999
  1999 in film
  The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
  
  )
• April 23 - Shirley Temple
  Shirley Temple
  Shirley Temple Black , born Shirley Jane Temple, is an American film and television actress, singer, dancer, autobiographer, and former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia...
  
  , actress
• May 7 - Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Rusev
  Georgi Iliev Rusev was a Bulgarian theatre and film actor.Rusev created a real gallery of colorful characters for about four decades in the film industry. He became famous as a master of the so called "second plan roles".-Biography and Career:...
  
  , Bulgarian actor
• June 13 - Nikola Todev
  Nikola Todev
  -Biography and Career:Todev was born on June 13, 1928 in the town of Devin, Smolyan Province. He started acting on the stage of Smolyan theater in 1952...
  
  , Bulgarian actor (d. 1991)
• July 26 - Stanley Kubrick
  Stanley Kubrick
  Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
  
  , director (d. 1999)
• August 6 - Andy Warhol
  Andy Warhol
  Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
  
  , artist, director (d. 1987)
• August 15 - Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Roeg
  Nicolas Jack Roeg, CBE, BSC is an English film director and cinematographer.-Life and career:Roeg was born in London, the son of Mabel Gertrude and Jack Nicolas Roeg...
  
  , director
• August 16 - Ann Blyth
  Ann Blyth
  Ann Marie Blyth is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. Her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:Blyth was born in Mount Kisco,...
  
  , actress
• August 31 - James Coburn
  James Coburn
  James Harrison Coburn III was an American film and television actor. Coburn appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances during his 45-year career, and played a wide range of roles and won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.A capable,...
  
  , actor (d. 2002)
• September 17 - Roddy McDowall
  Roddy McDowall
  Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series...
  
  , actor (d. 1998)
• September 19 - Adam West
  Adam West
  William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name...
  
  , actor
• October 1 - George Peppard
  George Peppard
  George Peppard, Jr. was an American film and television actor.Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's , portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in The Carpetbaggers , and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in...
  
  , actor (d. 1994)
• October 2 - George 'Spanky' McFarland, actor (d. 1993)
• November 3 - Wanda Hendrix
  Wanda Hendrix
  Wanda Hendrix was an American film and television actress.Born Dixie Wanda Hendrix in Jacksonville, Florida, Hendrix was performing in her local amateur theater when she was seen by a talent agent who signed her to a Hollywood contract...
  
  , actress (d. 1981
  1981 in film
  -Events:*January 19 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie Heaven's Gate, a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it....
  
  )
• December 25 - Dick Miller
  Dick Miller
  Richard "Dick" Miller is an American character actor who has appeared in over 100 films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including James Cameron and Joe Dante, with the distinction of appearing in every film made...
  
  , actor

Deaths

• January 2 - Emily Stevens, American stage & film actress
• April 22 - Frank Currier
  Frank Currier
  Frank Currier was an American actor and director of the silent era. He appeared in 133 films between 1912 and 1928. He also directed 19 films in 1916...
  
  , American director, stage & silent film actor
• June 22 - George Siegmann
  George Siegmann
  George Siegmann was an American actor in the silent film era. His more notable roles include Silas Lynch in Griffith's Birth of A Nation , the guard in the 1927 film The Cat and the Canary, Porthos in The Three Musketeers , Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist , and Dr...
  
  , American silent film actor
• June 24 - Holbrook Blinn
  Holbrook Blinn
  Holbrook Blinn was an American actor, born in San Francisco. He appeared on the legitimate stage as a child, and played throughout the United States and in London. He appeared in silent films, and was the director of popular one-act plays at New York's Princess Theatre.In 1900, he appeared in...
  
  , American stage & silent film actor
• July 20 - Scott Sidney
  Scott Sidney
  Scott Sidney , was an American film director. He directed 117 films between 1913 and 1927.He died in London, England, United Kingdom.-External links:...
  
  , American film director
• July 21 - Ward Crane
  Ward Crane
  Ward Crane was a silent film actor popular in comedies and dramas. Out of dozens of films he's best remembered as the handsome heavy to Buster Keaton in Sherlock, Jr. 1924.Crane died at age 38 from pneumonia....
  
  , American film actor
• August 10 - Rex Cherryman
  Rex Cherryman
  Rexford Raymond "Rex" Cherryman was an American actor of the stage and screen whose career was most prolific during the 1920s....
  
  , American actor
• August 17 - Frank Urson
  Frank Urson
  Frank Urson was an American silent film director and cinematographer from Chicago, Illinois. Originally a photographer, he moved onto cinematography and film directing for the Thanhouser Company. He is also credited with acting in one film Her Gallant Knights which starred William Garwood in 1913....
  
  , American film director
• October 8 - Larry Semon
  Larry Semon
  Lawrence "Larry" Semon was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era. In his day, Semon was considered a major movie comedian, but he is now remembered mainly for working with both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they started working together.He is also...
  
  , American film comedian
• December 14 - Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
  
  , American film actor
• December 25 - Fred Thomson
  Fred Thomson
  Frederick Clifton Thomson was an American silent film cowboy who rivaled Tom Mix in popularity before dying at age 38 of tetanus.-Birth and athletic achievement:...
  
  , American film actor

Film Debuts

• Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey Bogart
  Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema....
  
  
• Madeleine Carroll
  Madeleine Carroll
  Edith Madeleine Carroll was an English actress, popular in the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:Carroll was born at 32 Herbert Street in West Bromwich, England. She graduated from the University of Birmingham, England with a B.A. degree...
  
  
• Jean Gabin
  Jean Gabin
  -Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...
  
  
• Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow
  Jean Harlow was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde" , Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
  
• Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton
  Charles Laughton was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Anna Magnani
  Anna Magnani
  Anna Magnani was an Italian stage and film actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress, along with four other international awards, for her portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo....
  
  
• Merle Oberon
  Merle Oberon
  Merle Oberon was an Indian-born British actress best known for her screen performances in The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Cowboy and the Lady . She began her film career in British films as Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII . She travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel...
  
  
• Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott
  Randolph Scott was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in a variety of genres, including social dramas, crime dramas, comedies, musicals , adventure tales, war films, and even a few...