Broken Silence: Conversations with 23 Silent Film Stars
About this audiobook
This is a collection of twenty-three original interviews with stars of the silent screen, with biographical information and a filmography included for each. Interviewed are Lew Ayres, William Bakewell, Lina Basquette, Madge Bellamy, Eleanor Boardman, Ethlyne Clair, Junior Coghlan, Joyce Compton, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Maxine Elliott Hicks, Dorothy Janis, George Lewis, Marion Mack, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lois Moran, Baby Marie Osborne, Muriel Ostriche, Eddie Quillan, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier, David Rollins, and Gladys Walton.
About the author
Michael G. Ankerich is a biographer whose work focuses on American silent film and early twentieth-century actors and actresses. A former newspaper reporter, Ankerich has written extensively for Classic Images, Films of the Golden Age, and Hollywood Studio magazine, which featured his interview with Butterfly McQueen (Prissy) on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Gone with the Wind.
Alex Boyles is an actor and an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator.
