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John Gilbert (a.k.a. The Great Lover of the Silver Screen) was born John Cecil Pringle July 10, 1899, in Logan, Utah. The son of an actress, he made his first stage appearance as an infant and played an extra in films during his adolescence. The Merry Widow launched him to fame in 1925, and by 1928 he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. He is best known for his starring role in The Big Parade, the most successful film of the silent era, and, in fact, the most successful film until Gone with the Wind. He made nearly one hundred films before his untimely death in 1936.
His page-turning biography, Dark Star, by his daughter Leatrice Gilbert Fountain,is a must read for any John Gilbert fan Biography Credit: www.johngilbert.org/ |
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Trivia and QuotesTrivia Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops. Is portrayed by Barry Bostwick in The Silent Lovers (1980) (TV) A one-man play on the life of John Gilbert, entitled Silenced Idol, was announced in August 2006. The two-act theatrical work is by Tony Maietta (who also portrays Gilbert) and Jeffrey Vance. MGM star Gilbert had a huge enemy in Louis B. Mayer after Gilbert pummeled Mayer while defending lady love Greta Garbo`s honor. It is said that Mayer himself, and/or his chief sound engineer, manipulated the knobs of Gilbert`s first talking films so that a perfectly adequate speaking voice came out on the big screen as ridiculously high pitched. Sure enough, when the actor`s shrill declarations of love in His Glorious Night (1929) hit movie theaters, audiences howled with laughter. This proved to be the beginning of the end for the decade`s highest paid matinée idol ($250,000 per film). Was left standing at the altar in 1927, after Greta Garbo got cold feet about marrying him. Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section near the top of the hill. | ||
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