Star of many silent films, Mary Pickford made her "talkie" debut in 1929's "Coquette."
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"We didn't need dialogue, we had faces!" In the 1950 film "Sunset Boulevard," Norma Desmond, a star of the silent screen played by Gloria Swanson, has faded into obscurity with the medium that made her famous.