Silent film star Marie Osborne Yeats dies at 99 Associated Press – November 18, 2010 9:24 AM ET SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) – Silent film child star Marie Osborne Yeats, who was known as Baby Marie Osborne in films such as “Little Mary Sunshine” … Read more Remembering Silent Film Star Baby Marie Osborne Melissa [...]

Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith incorporated United Artists on February 5, 1919. Each of them own 20% of the corporation with the remaining 20% by lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo serving as general counsel for the founders. The first agreement allowed the principles to release four pictures a year. A number [...]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were established in 1927. It was decided that they would create a ceremony to publicize and reward fourteen individuals and movies that were the best artistic examples of film making. The first award ceremony was in 1929 for the period August 1, 1927 to July 31, 1928. [...]

6. The Crowd – 1928 – King Vidor, Director Cast: Eleanor Boardman [Mary Sims], James Murray [John Sims], Bert Roach [Bert], Estelle Clark [Jane], Daniel G. Tomlinson [Jim], Dell Henderson [Dick], Lucy Beaumont [Mary’s mother], Freddie Burke Frederick [John Sims Jr.], Alice Mildred Puter [daughter]; Sidney Bracey [John’s supervisor], Johnny Downs [John Sims, age 12], [...]