Mary Brian was an American actress who made the transition from silent films to sound films.
Brian in 1931
Mary Brian in the early 1920s
Mary Brian with Gary Cooper in The Virginian (1929)
Gary Cooper and Mary Brian in a film still for The Virginian, 1929
Herbert Brenon was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through 1940.
Herbert Brenon, 1916
Brenon and Alla Nazimova with a camera in his studio, 9 August 1916.
Brenon in 1917 reading Rupert Hughes' Empty Pockets
Brenon's mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York