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John Gilbert was the golden boy at MGM during the final years of the silent era. He was the young studio’s biggest male star, working with such top directors as King Vidor (“The Big Parade ...
Leatrice Fountain had that sense of frustration in 1973, when, over the course of a three-day marathon at George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., she saw 20 John Gilbert movies and realized that ...
John Gilbert biography and filmography. Moana 2 breaks Wicked's spell on weekend box office Moana 2 captured the top spot at the weekend box office on the Thanksgiving long weekend.
Gilbert broke into movies as a teenage extra and bit player. ... One of the virtues of Eve Golden’s smart, funny biography of John Gilbert is that she doesn’t make him seem too pathetic.
This Saturday marks the 80th anniversary of John Gilbert’s death.If you don’t know this silent-movie idol, you are not alone, for his renown peaked between the mid-1920s and early 1930s.
By 1924, when Gilbert was cast in the second lead in the Norma Shearer/Lon Chaney circus movie He Who Gets Slapped, Gilbert had begun to establish his persona as a star: not so much a lover as a ...
For 80 years, Exhibit A in the sad saga of movie stars who were decimated by talkies (see ”Singin' in the Rain”) has been John Gilbert, MGM's matinee idol.