Pedro de Cordoba and Marion Davies in Young Diana, 1922. Miss Davies’ popularity as a romantic heroine was long a figment of William Randolph Hearst’s imagination, but she eventually won a following as a comedienne.

Lillian Gish with Ronald Coleman in The White Sister, 1923, her biggest hit after she left Griffith.

William Boyd, idolized as the rugged Hopalong Cassidy, began his career as a romantic and marcelled leading man in the costume dramas of Cecil B. De Mille and D.W. Griffith. Here he is in Griffith’s Lady of the Pavements, 1929, with Jetta Goudal and Lupe Velez.

Seventeen stars assembled in the M-G-M commissary for a single scene in Show People, 1928.

Polly Moran, Dorothy Sebastian, Louella O. Parsons, Estelle Taylor, Claire Windsor, Aileen Pringle, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Leatrice Joy

Renee Adoree, Rod La Rocque, Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Norma Talmadge, Douglas Fairbanks, Marion Davies, William S. Hart

Lillian Gish, heroine of The Birth of a Nation.

John Gilbert starred in minor films for William Fox before The Big Parade brought out the dynamic magnetism which made him the top male star until the end of the silent era.

In a famous scene, Gilbert, the American doughboy, teaches the French girl, Renee Adoree, the technique of chewing gum. (The Big Parade, 1925)

Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell were the sensations of 1927 in Seventh Heaven; they co-starred for over seven years.

Mae Murray.

Lillian Rich, Warner Baxter, in The Golden Bed, 1925.