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Post by jhar26 on Mar 19, 2015 7:14:11 GMT -5
The recent HOF votes made me think about him. I know that he was a superstar of the silent era, but I've never actually seen a movie with him. So, was he any good, or was he just eye candy for the ladies?
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Post by profblues on Mar 19, 2015 9:43:26 GMT -5
Eye candy mostly. His films played to women's fantasies and he had really expressive eyes from what I have seen of his films. His voice was poor so that is why he never made the jump to talkies.
Ramon Navarro was a better actor in similar scripts.
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Post by egoodstein on Mar 19, 2015 9:51:11 GMT -5
Eye candy mostly. His films played to women's fantasies and he had really expressive eyes from what I have seen of his films. His voice was poor so that is why he never made the jump to talkies. Ramon Navarro was a better actor in similar scripts. **Agreed. Except didn't he die at a very young age before the talkie era? I thought about him coz of his star status in '20's, but he made relatively few films, and even at the time, fairly camp really  . Good point about Navarro. |
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. Good point about Navarro.