{"product_id":"the-sound-of-silence-conversations-with-16-film-and-stage-personalities-who-bridged-the-gap-between-silents-and-talkies-paperback","title":"The Sound of Silence: Conversations with 16 Film and Stage Personalities Who Bridged the Gap Between Silents and Talkies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael G. Ankerich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Marion Shilling began her career as a silent film ingenue for MGM and went on to play heroines in Westerns of the 1930s. Stage actress Esther Muir made the transition from Broadway to Hollywood just as talkies became popular. Hugh Allan was a leading man in the last years of the silents only to leave the film business in 1930 because of the uncertainty surrounding his transition to sound films and his disgust with studio politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e These three performers and thirteen others (Barbara Barondess, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Pauline Curley, Billie Dove, Edith Fellows, Rose Hobart, William Janney, Marcia Mae Jones, Barbara Kent, Anita Page, Lupita Tovar, and Barbara Weeks) reminisce here about Hollywood and the movie business as it made the transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael G. Ankerich\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer whose work focuses on the silent film era of Hollywood. A former newspaper reporter, he has written extensively for \u003ci\u003eClassic Images, Films of the Golden Age\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHollywood Studio Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, which featured his interview with Butterfly McQueen (Prissy) on the 50th anniversary of the release of \u003ci\u003eGone With The Wind.\u003c\/i\u003e He can be reached at his website michaelgankerich.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699803426912,"sku":"9780786463831","price":35.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/the-sound-of-silence-conversations-with-16-film-and-stage-personalities-who-bridged-the-gap-between-silents-and-talkies-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}