No one will ever forget the scene in D. W. Griffith's Way Down East
where Richard Barthelmess as David rescued Anna Moore from certain
death on an ice floe as it was about to plummet over a waterfall.
The actor risked his life for that stunt, and the exciting sequence
still thrills audiences to this day. His effort to fight back and
live on became more than the stuff of Hollywood legend. Richard
went on to be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor for The
Noose and The Patent Leather Kid. His signature roles are in many
of D. W. Griffith's silent films including Broken Blossoms, Scarlet
Days, The Love Flower, and The Idol Dancer. Few people are aware
that he was nearly felled by the chaos of Hollywood's transition
from silent to talking pictures when he used a voice double to sing
for him in Weary River. Despite the setback, his transition to
talking pictures and work in The Dawn Patrol, Cabin in the Cotton,
and Only Angel's Have Wings proved that his talent was enduring.
For the first time, the story is fully told how Alla Nazimova, a
famous Russian star, plucked him from obscurity to play in her
first film, and how his worldwide fame was nearly snuffed out when
he followed America's call to arms and gave up his movie career to
assist in the fight against Nazi aggression in World War Two. By
the time he returned to civilian life, a new generation had grown
up never seeing his work, but his determination to succeed against
all odds regained a foothold in films, and he continued to work
until retiring to a happy life as a senior citizen. Richard
appeared in more than 80 films, and this book reveals them with a
richly researched biography, an extensive Filmography, and hundreds
of rare portraits, posters, and lobby cards that capture the
glamour of Hollywood's Golden Era.
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