Dria Paola
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Dria Paola was an Italian stage and film actress. She played the female lead in Alessandro Blasetti's late silent Sun. In 1930 she starred in the first Italian sound film The Song of Love.
Dria Paola in Cinematografo magazine 1929
Silent film
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A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound. Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed
A still from 1921's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, one of the highest-grossing silent films
Aziza Amir in Laila (1927)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) used stylized inter-titles.
Lillian Gish, the "First Lady of the American Cinema", was a leading star in the silent era with one of the longest careers—1912 to 1987.