Charming and classically handsome, John Gilbert (1897--1936) was
among the world's most recognizable actors during the silent era.
He was a wild, swashbuckling figure on screen and off, and accounts
of his life have focused on his high-profile romances with Greta
Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, his legendary conflicts with Louis B.
Mayer, his four tumultuous marriages, and his swift decline after
the introduction of talkies. A dramatic and interesting
personality, Gilbert served as one of the primary inspirations for
the character of George Valentin in the Academy Award--winning
movie The Artist (2011). Many myths have developed around the
larger-than-life star in the eighty years since his untimely death,
but this definitive biography sets the record straight. Eve Golden
separates fact from fiction in John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent
Film Stars, tracing the actor's life from his youth spent traveling
with his mother in acting troupes to the peak of fame at MGM, where
he starred opposite Mae Murray, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Greta
Garbo, and other actresses in popular films such as The Merry Widow
(1925), The Big Parade (1925), Flesh and the Devil (1926), and Love
(1927). Golden debunks some of the most pernicious rumors about the
actor, including the oft-repeated myth that he had a high-pitched,
squeaky voice that ruined his career. Meticulous, comprehensive,
and generously illustrated, this book provides a behind-the-scenes
look at one of the silent era's greatest stars and the glamorous
yet brutal world in which he lived.
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