Welcome to the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. I have a lot
of author friends, and many of them write above movies. One of my
favorites is Lawn Davis, a documentarian and lecturer on movie history, and his
latest project is a lot of fun. It's called Stumbling into Film History.
Lawn has been called the champion of the Silent Cinema, and this is a
great recap of some of the big stars from the Silent Era, many of
whom sadly you never heard of. Lawn was just a young teenager back in
the seventies and he had such a love for film that he was able to
spend some time at the Old Actors Home and get to know some of the
legends. Chapters in this latest book include stories such as Eddie Leveck, the
last of the Keystone Cops, Zoey Ray, the Universal Baby Baby Peggy,
known as the last Silent Star. There's a great section on the late great
Buster Keaton called Saluting the General, and Lawn, who's written about this in
the past, includes some new material on Larry Fine, one of the legendary
Three Stooges. If you love movies and want to know more about the silence.
Read Stumbling into film History by Lawn Davis The Book Club, b Z
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