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For even more authentically Weimar accommodations, the home of Danish silent-movie siren Asta Nielsen (best known for starring opposite Greta Garbo in "Joyless Street") has been turned into an affordable bed and breakfast, Hotel Pension Funk (Fasanenstrasse 69, hotel-pensionfunk.de ).

Come to the Cabaret Charles Runnette 2012

Jean Dujardin is irresistible as the fallen star of this 1920s Hollywood tale, lovingly told in the appropriate wide-eyed silent-movie style.

This week's new film, DVD & Blu-ray 2011

"Other silent-movie actors, like John Gilbert, who had a very high voice, were immediately forgotten," he adds.

Golden Silence on the Silver Screen Lanie Goodman 2011

The actor, who plays silent film star George Valentin in the film, concluded his acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical with a mouthed and mimed thank-you to the audience... in true silent-movie style.

The 17 Most Memorable Moments of the Golden Globes 2012

Maybe, in a nod to old time film-colony royalty, a woman named Yvonne Stevens, one of the last silent-movie actresses and first wife of Oscar-winning director George Stevens.

The last test of fame: Which stars make the Academy Awards "In Memoriam" tribute reel? 2011

With its nine separate numbers, "Oh, You Kid!" prompts laughs aplenty as its 11 "bathers" group and regroup to render danced vignettes related to the silent-movie and vaudeville arts of its musical period.

Laughing in the Light and Dark Robert Greskovic 2011

Maybe, in a nod to old-time film-colony royalty, a woman named Yvonne Stevens, one of the last silent-movie actresses and first wife of Oscar-winning director George Stevens.

Editing the final credits of the academy's 'In Memoriam' 2011

"Once in a Lifetime" is the story of George, Jerry and May Jason Bradley, Andrew Carter and Hillary Clemens, a trio of small-time vaudeville hoofers who see "The Jazz Singer" in New York and decide to go to Hollywood, pass themselves off as authorities on elocution and make their fortune by teaching silent-movie actors how to talk.

All Talking! All Laughing! Terry Teachout 2012

This little book — written by Jorge Louis Borges's some-time collaborator — takes its inspiration from H.G. Wells's Island of Doctor Moreau, mixes it with the author's adoration of the silent-movie star Louise Brooks, and went on to inspire Robbe-Grillet and Resnais 'Last Year at Marienbad (and probably countless film-theorists).

Reading Groups 2009

There is a clever moment in "Movements" when the corps is frozen in the poses of an exercise class -- lunges, side bends -- and Magnicaballi seems to faint, melodramatically, in her partner's arms like a silent-movie star.

Bluegrass pickin' perks up Ballet Across America's opening 2010