Part 4: Molders of the Modern American Actor
The period between the invention of motion pictures and the advent of Talkies at the end of the 1920’s is known as the Silent Era. Carl Laemmle, Jesse Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Richard Rowland, Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, .William Selig, William Fox, the stars and comedians of the silent era, playwright Bertoit Brecht, French avant-garde theorist Antonin Artaud, Vsevolod Meyerhold, and, of course, Michael Chekhov.