'The Artist' and Quiet Stars Who Moved forward to Talkies

It is a historical Hollywood myth the coming of seem pictures in 1927 destroyed the careers on most quiet stars and forced the galleries to locate a new generation of Broadway-trained stars with full-throated speaking and singing voices. That myth finds its latest retelling in 'The Artist,' the brand new homage towards the lost talent that's itself a quiet movie, recounting the storyplot of the without words star, George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), who stumbles when Hollywood changes to talkies, even while his youthful protégé (Berenice Bejo) prospers. While it's certainly correct that a few of the quiet era's finest stars, from Buster Keaton to John Gilbert, unsuccessful to locate similar success in talkies, there have been still lots of quiet stars who did equally well as well as in seem films. Ahead, a glance at some stories who made the transition easily, and whose quiet achievements and talkie triumphs should be appreciated on a single page. Quiet Stars Who Moved forward to Talkies Joan CrawfordGreta GarboMarlene DietrichPaul MuniRonald ColmanMary AstorJohn BarrymoreLaurel & HardyGloria SwansonLon Chaney, Sr.Charlie ChaplinMyrna LoyWilliam Powell See All Moviefone Art galleries » Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook Follow Gary Susman on Twitter: @garysusman