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Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.
I'm Jordan Rich. I have a lot

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of author friends, and many of
them write above movies. One of my

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favorites is Lawn Davis, a documentarian
and lecturer on movie history, and his

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latest project is a lot of fun. It's called Stumbling into Film History.

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Lawn has been called the champion of
the Silent Cinema, and this is a

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great recap of some of the big
stars from the Silent Era, many of

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whom sadly you never heard of.
Lawn was just a young teenager back in

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the seventies and he had such a
love for film that he was able to

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spend some time at the Old Actors
Home and get to know some of the

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legends. Chapters in this latest book
include stories such as Eddie Leveck, the

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last of the Keystone Cops, Zoey
Ray, the Universal Baby Baby Peggy,

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known as the last Silent Star.
There's a great section on the late great

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Buster Keaton called Saluting the General,
and Lawn, who's written about this in

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the past, includes some new material
on Larry Fine, one of the legendary

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Three Stooges. If you love movies
and want to know more about the silence.

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Read Stumbling into film History by Lawn
Davis The Book Club, b Z

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