Silent era stars biography

The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film going. Throughout the decade, film production increasingly focused on the feature film rather than the “short” or “two-reeler.” This is a change that had begun with the long D.W.

Griffith epics of the mid-1910s. In Hollywood, numerous small studios were taken over and made a part of larger studios, creating the Studio System that would run American film making until the 1960s. MGM (founded in the middle of the decade) and Paramount were the highest-grossing studios during the period, with Fox, Universal, United Artists, and Warner Brothers making up a large part of the remaining industry.

10.Max Schreck

For three years between 1919 and 1922, Schreck appeared at the Munich Kammerspiele,  including a role in the expressionist production of Bertolt Brecht’s début, Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night) (in which he played the “freakshow la