Margaret Livingston, sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingstone or Margaret Livingstone, was an American film actress and businesswoman during the silent film era. She is remembered today as "the Woman from the City" in F. W. Murnau's 1927 film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
Marie Ault was a British character actress of stage and film.
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
Florence Vidor was an American silent film actress.
Lionel Belmore was an English character actor and director on stage for more than a quarter of a century.
Emily Fitzroy was an English theatre and film actress who eventually became an American citizen. She was at one time a leading lady in London for Sir Charles Wyndham.
Edith Roberts was an American silent film actress from New York City.
Mary Bessie Brough was an English actress in theatre, silent films and early talkies, including eleven of the twelve Aldwych farces of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Lya Mara was a Polish actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema.
Frederic Zelnik was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s.
Claire McDowell was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 350 films between 1908 and 1945.
Warwick Manson Ward was an English actor of the stage and screen, and a film producer. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1919 and 1933. He also produced 19 films between 1931 and 1958. He was born in St. Ives, Cornwall.
Edna Murphy was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in 80 films between 1918 and 1933. Murphy was voted "Most Photographed Movie Star of 1925" by ScreenLand Magazine.
Alfons Fryland was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 47 films between 1921 and 1933. He was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary and died in Graz, Austria.
Olga Engl was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films.
Frida Richard was an Austrian actress. She was a prolific actress in both the silent and sound eras.
Werner Brandes was a German cinematographer. Brandes moved to Britain in the late 1920s to work on several prestige films for British International Pictures.
Vivian Gibson was a British-born actress. Born Georgina Mabel Gibson she took the stage name Vivian Gibson. Her silent movie career was in Germany between the wars. She returned to the UK in 1932 after which she worked on the stage.
Maria Forescu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian opera singer and film actress. During the silent and talkies era of the German cinema, she appeared in several movies as a supporting actress. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Forescu, like other Jews of that period, was barred from her profession. Living undercover during the later years of World War II, she survived the Holocaust and died in 1947 in East Berlin.
Fanny Carlsen was a German screenwriter of the silent era. As she was Jewish she was likely forced to emigrate with the Nazi Party's coming to power in 1933, although her exact fate is unknown.
