Silent Wierdness

    1876-1961   Important French director Maurice Tourneur was born Maurice Félix Thomas on this day in the Épinettes region of Paris on thi...

1874-1956 Writer, principally of plays, Owen Gould Davis, was born on this day in Portland, Maine, but was raised in Bangor.  Hi...

1883-1974 Famed Broadway stage actress Martha [Abagail] Hedman was born on this day in Ostersund, Sweden.  She studied acting under ...

1883-1961 Giant of the stage and silent screen Elsie Louise Ferguson was born on this day in Manhattan.  Ferguson was the daughter...

1838-1920 American author Charles Barnard was born on this day in Boston, Mass. to parents Charles Frances Barnard and Sarah Ba...

1904-1977 Born in Paris France to a silent film director father, Maurice Tourneur, this great director's silent work actually ...