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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Forever silent

I've been thinking of those silent actors whose voices, for one reason and another, were never heard on film.

Here are some of them:

Elliott Dexter. Retired from the screen in 1925.

Bobby Harron. Died in 1920.

Wallace Reid. Died in 1923.

Clarine Seymour. Died in 1920.

Constance Talmadge. Retired from films upon the advent of sound.

Olive Thomas. Died in 1920.

Rudolph Valentino. Died in 1926.

And, of course, the older actors who had simply faded off the screen, or died, before sound came in.

Then there's one who only made one sound film: Lon Chaney. What might he have done with his voice, as he did with his face and body, had he lived longer?

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