They recruit James Caan despite a disastrous lunch in his broken trailer, and then torture Liza Minnelli at the commissary (fortunately, she already badly wanted to be in the movie).
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They then disguise themselves as Flamenco dancers to get close to Anne Bancroft at a nightclub, and sign her on as well after a comical dance sequence.
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There, he was discovered and selected to play the role of Maciste, a muscular slave, in the silent movie classic Cabiria in 1914.
Saperton married Godowsky’s daughter, Vanita, sister of silent movie star Dagmar Godowsky, in 1924 and began to immerse in the study of his father-in-law’s difficult piano works including all the transcriptions.
Elsa Benham (November 20, 1908 – April 20, 1995, Irving, Texas) was a dancer and silent movie performer from St. Louis, Missouri.
Friede was a fictional spacecraft designed by Hermann Oberth and was featured in the 1929 silent movie Woman in the Moon.
When silent movies in Poland lost popularity following the arrival of Al Jolson's The Jazz Singer, (known in Yiddish as The Singing Buffoon), thousands of Polish musicians who'd played in the movie theaters lost their livelihood; they began to create large and small orchestras playing dance music and jazz.
The Shadow of Nazareth is a 1913 silent movie that takes place in Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus and tells the story of a vain woman named Judith, her brother Judas Iscariot, and her two admirers, a thief named Barabbas, and Caiaphas, the high priest of Jerusalem.
which was inspired by such diverse influences as the absurd humour of Monty Python; the nonsensical, wordy Blackadder; Not the Nine O'Clock News; the childlike mime-esque Mr. Bean, made famous by Rowan Atkinson; and even the slapstick of the silent movie era and the quick-fire wise-cracking of the Marx Brothers.
Her movie appearances include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (her first movie appearance, 1974), All the President's Men and Silent Movie (both 1976), as well as Maxie (1985) and John Cassavetes' final film, the 1986 comedy Big Trouble, plus a small, uncredited role in Best Friends.
Berthelet is remembered particularly for having directed William Gillette - noted as the definitive early Sherlock Holmes - in his only filmed performance as the great detective - and controversial feminist Mary MacLane in her silent movie Men Who Have Made Love to Me.
The Call of Cthulhu (2005) – Directed by Andrew Leman and described by one reviewer as the most successful adaptation of this story, this silent movie was filmed in black and white.
Harry Pollard (1889–1962), born Harold Fraser, best known as Snub Pollard, an Australian-born silent movie comedian, popular in the 1920s
Snub Pollard (Harry Pollard, 1889–1962), Australian-born silent movie comedian
The name is taken from the 1922 Swedish/Danish silent movie Häxan ("The Witch").
Speed is credited as the designer on the 1916 silent movie version of the novel She by H. Rider Haggard, which he had illustrated.
Duke Ridgley was a fan of Zane Grey's novel, "The Thundering Herd," and the silent movie that came out not long after the book was released in 1925.
The name Thundering Herd came from a Zane Grey novel released in 1925, and a silent movie of the same two years later.
Looking at the brief episodes it is easy to tell that Mr. Mops is based on none other than the silent movie star Charlie Chaplin, of whom Hergé was a great admirer.
One of de Meyer's short stories, Clothes and Treachery, was made into The Devil's Pass Key, a 1919 silent movie by director Erich von Stroheim.
Asserting her own vocabulary, she then embarked on her cinematic opus "Lulu In Suspension" inspired by silent-movie star Louise Brooks and her book "Lulu in Hollywood".
Guy Hedlund (1884–1964), silent movie actor was born in town.
Edna Purviance (born 1895), an American actress during the silent movie era.
Since 2010 the Dodge Brothers have played the live accompaniment to classic silent movies at film festivals around the country, accompanied by silent movie pianist Neil Brand.
The footage of the Gallipoli dream sequence is taken from the silent movie The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915).
George Lessey (1879–1947), silent movie actor lived his later years and died in Westbrook.