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Title: great gift for anyone
Review: like all Basinger's books, this imparts lots & lots of info and is a fun, often funny, read. it does not, however, go as deep as her other books and is just a selective introduction for the non-specialist to the world of silent films thru its actors: brief bio-critiques, of varying degrees of rigor & interest, of Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, Douglas Fairbanks, Norma & Constance Talmadge, Tom Mix, Wm. S. Hart, Gloria Swanson, Pola Negri, Rudolph Valentino, Marion Davies, Lon Chaney, John Gilbert, Clara Bow, Colleen Moore and Rin-Tin-Tin. some chapters are very rivetting & enlightening [Lon, John, Rudy, Wm.], others ho-hum [Mary, Marion], and one ["Doug" (sic)] so vapid that one must turn one's eyes away and blush. the photos, however, are altogether gorgeous. a lush book of high general interest & many hours of perusing pleasure.
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