Actors of the Actors of the 1920s1920s

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Al Jolson (1886-1950)

• 1st openly Jewish actor• “world’s greatest

entertainer”• starred in the world’s first

talking film• more than 80 hit records• 16 national and

international tours• 3 stars on the Hollywood 3 stars on the Hollywood

Walk of FameWalk of Fame

• performed in “blackface”

• used fame to defy racism

– promoted 1st Broadway production with an all-black cast

– helped introduce African American music to white audiences (jazz, ragtime, blues)

– defended two black songwriters kicked out of a restaurant

Joseph “Buster” Keaton (1895-1966)

• nicknamed “Buster” by Harry Houdini

• “The Michelangelo of Silent Comedy”

• named 7th greatest director or all time by Entertainment Weekly

• 2 stars on the 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Hollywood Walk of FameFame

His trademark:The Great Stone FaceThe Great Stone Face

also known for wearing trendy porkpie hats

Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

• won an Oscar for Best Music in Original Score

• received longest Academy Award standing ovation (5min)

• knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

–2 Academy Honorary Awards

–died in Switzerland

Clark Gable (1901-1960)

• named 7th Greatest Male Star of All Time by American Film Institute

• played Rhett ButlerRhett Butler in Gone with the Wind

• three nominations for Best Actor

• died after 3 successive heart attacks

Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)• started own production

company

• 1st president of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences

• hosted the first Academy Awards

• cast in Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers and The Mark of Zorro

• One star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909-2000)

• son of Douglas Fairbanks

• cast in The Three Musketeers with his father

• part of Operation Husky in WW2 (invasion of Sicily)

• received 6 military awards

• made an Honorary Knight Commander of the British empire

Emil Jannings (1884-1950)

• Swiss actor

• 1st winner of an Academy Award for best actor

• Oscar winner

• end of career due to his thick German accent in talking films

Frank “Gary” Cooper (1901-1961)

• 2 time winner of Academy Award for Best Actor

• 5 time nominee

• 1961 winner of

Academy Honorary Award

• roles in over 110 movies and 11 TV programs

Harold Lloyd (1893-1971)• nearly 200 films in 30 years• Academy Award for being "a

master comedian and good citizen“

• two stars on Hollywood two stars on Hollywood Walk of FameWalk of Fame

• 4th 4th person to leave prints, autograph and outline of his outline of his signature glassessignature glasses

• on a US postage stamp in 1994

John Gilbert (1899-1936)

• Cast in The Count of Monte Cristo, Singin’ in the Rain

• One star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Image on a postage stamp

• Married 4 times

John Barrymore (1882-1942)

• Related to Drew Barrymore

• Cast in Hamlet,

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• One star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Married 4 times

Ramon Navarro (1899-1968)

• Cast in The Barbarian, The Little American, Red Lily

• One of few openly homosexual actors

• Murdered by

brothers trying to find money

• One star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Richard Dix (1893-1949)

• Cast in The Ten Commandments and The Thirteenth Hour

• Academy Award Best Actor nominee

• One star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Died of a heart attack

Jackie Coogan (1914-1984)• Began acting as a

child• California Child

Actor’s Bill created due to his case

• Sole survivor of a deadly car crash

• Remembered as Charlie Chaplin’s sidekick

• Cast in Oliver Twist and Huckleberry Finn

Tom Mix (1880-1940)

• Born in Mix Run, PA• Hollywood’s 1st Western Star• One star on the Hollywood

Walk of Fame• Starred in 336 films

Wallace Reid (1981-1923)

• Cast in The Phoenix and The Birth of a Nation

• Injured in a train wreck and became addicted to morphine

• Died in a coma• One star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Warner Baxter (1889-1951)

• Cast in The Great Gatsby

• Won Best Actor in the second Academy Awards

• Highest paid actor by 1936

• One star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Will Rogers (1879-1935)

• “Oklahoma’s

favorite son”• Guinness World Record

for throwing 3 ropes at once

• Traveled the world in a

circus before acting

• Wrote over 4000 national newspaper columns

• Cast in Young as You Feel, Life begins at 40

• The star of Fox Films (now 20th Century Fox)

• Made over 70 movies• Ran for president in

1928• Died in an airplane

crash

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