| Theda Bara | Josephine Baker | Clara Bow |
| Louise Brooks | Janet Gaynor | Lillian Gish |
| Mary Pickford | Sazu Pitts | Gloria Swanson |
| Fay Wray | Pola Negri |
| It is difficult for most of us today to imagine what a thrill early motion pictures must have fueled. With portrait photography and custom-made stars and starlets, the first Holywood "Image Makers" found just what the people wanted. Heroes and heroines, vamps, damsels and villains, romance and adventure, suspense, terror and laughter. Need anyone wonder why such an enduring love for movies persists today? The first Suave Titans and Elegant Divas of the silver screen have mostly passed into memorial, but as long as the world remains in love with film, their adventures, loves gained and lost, walking and talking, breathing, laughter and tears, fears and triumphs will stay with us. More importantly, pure and simple joy. A joy that can be visited again and again, for obvious or for personal reasons, through each decade. While our nation, our world, and our movie making grows (hopefully) more mature and sophisticated, the elegant portrayals of early film making, ambitious experimentation, articulate writing and plotting all stand the sets of time. And the larger-than-life screen divas of the silent era remain perhaps even more mysterious, enticing, enchanting, inspiring and beautiful than they ever were. |
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