John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars (Screen Classics),New

John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars (Screen Classics),New

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Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (18971936) was among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era. He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts of his life have focused on his highprofile romances with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B. Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after the introduction of talkies. A dramatic and interesting personality, Gilbert served as one of the primary inspirations for the character of George Valentin in the Academy Awardwinning movie The Artist (2011). Many myths have developed around the largerthanlife star in the eighty years since his untimely death, but this definitive biography sets the record straight. Eve Golden separates fact from fiction in John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars, tracing the actor's life from his youth spent traveling with his mother in acting troupes to the peak of fame at MGM, where he starred opposite Mae Murray, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, and other actresses in popular films such as TheMerry Widow (1925), The Big Parade (1925), Flesh and the Devil (1926), and Love (1927). Golden debunks some of the most pernicious rumors about the actor, including the oftrepeated myth that he had a highpitched, squeaky voice that ruined his career. Meticulous, comprehensive, and generously illustrated, this book provides a behindthescenes look at one of the silent era's greatest stars and the glamorous yet brutal world in which he lived.

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