SummerStars

THOUSANDS CHEER

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird

Lamarr, Hedy

Skipping I Jolson, Al

Thanks for all of the useful information! I kind of had a feeling that certain silent stars were required (unless the choice was optional) to wear dark makeup around their eyes so that they can be see better on the rather prmitive and grainy film used back then. I do know that when I was in a TV/Film class in college, my professor played the music video of the Smashing Pumpkins' song "Tonight Tonight", and many of the people in it had that dark eye makeup since the video was created to look like a silent film. Not just any silent film, but that classic (and truly ancient) silent film "A Trip to the Moon" by George Melies. It was REALLY neat. I just never found the look of dark makeup on the eyes, like with Larry Semon, to look appealing. Or especially Stan Laurel in his and Oliver Hardy's first film together. It just looks sort of odd, sort of like strange clown makeup. As I said before (and I wouldn't be surprised if this ever occurred with some comedic actor like Larry Semon), it would just be great to see one of those actors with the dark eye makeup getting sprayed in the face with water from a garden hose or a seltzer bottle, since this kind of humor was frequent in early silent comedies, as well as in vaudeville.

Goddard, Paulette

Dunne, Irene

Wyman, Jane

Tierney, Gene

Rogers, Ginger

Powell, Dick

Niven, David

Lamour, Dorothy

Johnson, Van

Dorothy Malone Next: M.H.

Hepburn, Audrey

CADDYSHACK Next: Jimmy Durante

Faye, Alice

SHOW BOAT

IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME

Bogart, Humphrey

Young, Loretta

MY DREAM IS YOURS

Wyman, Jane