Well! Hello there! Been awhile hasn't it?!
Many apologies for my extended and somewhat mysterious absence, but I am back AND so is what I have been promising for a year now...the first episode of the Silence is Platinum podcast!! Super excited about this and have a lot of great things in store for this new platform for the blog.
I hope you enjoy the first episode. You can listen to it here or you can download it from the iTunes app or Stitcher once it becomes available. It is currently under review. The blog will be used as a 'companion' to the podcast, offering pictures and source material for the podcast. It is nice to have stories read to you, but if you are like me, you also like seeing pictures of who exactly is being discussed. And, if you are a fan of the blog already, you know I love those black and white photos.
Thank you all for being so patient waiting for this to come to fruition. It has been a labor of love and am so happy this day has come.
I hope you enjoy!
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LILLIAN PEACOCK
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| R.A. Craven, Gale Henry and Lillian Peacock |
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| Lillian Peacock and Harry Carey |
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| Bobby Vernon, Heinie Conklin, Billy Franey, Gale Henry and Lillian Peacock |
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| Billy Franey, Max Asher, Gale Henry and Lillian Peacock |
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SUZANNE GRANDAIS
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'BREEZY' REEVES EASON, JR.
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| Breezy acting alongside his parents in Two Kinds of Love (1920) |
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FLORENCE DESHON
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| Charlie Chaplin and Max Eastman |
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FRANK FARRINGTON
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| Frank Farrington and Florence La Badie |
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| Doris Farrington, youngest daughter of Frank and Marguerite 'Daisy' Farrington |
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| Irene/Rene/Reenie Farrington, oldest daughter of Frank and Marguerite 'Daisy' Farrington, and Justus Barnes in Gold (1914) |
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JEAN STUART
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| Dorothy Gulliver, Ethlyne Clair, Dorothy Kitchen, Jean Stuart, Barbara Kent and Ena Gregory |
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| Small paragraph that appeared in a 1927 Photoplay magazine...with multiple errors (Phyllis? Jane?) |
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CHARLES EMMETT MACK
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| Charles Emmett Mack and Carol Dempster in Dream Street (1921) |
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EINAR HANSON
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| Claude Gillingwater, Einar Hanson and Pola Negri in Barbed Wire (1927) |
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| Einar Hanson and Clara Bow in Children of Divorce (1927) |
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| Greta Garbo and Einar Hanson |
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ARNOLD KENT
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| Arnold Kent and Clara Bow in Hula |
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ADDITIONAL LISTENING/VIEWING
I am very fortunate to have such wonderful friends who have helped me figure out the ins and outs of creating something as big as a podcast, and I wanted to make sure I helped pimp their projects as well because they deserve praise for the awesome work they do as well.
Thank you (AGAIN!) to Arthur Dark for his help and expertise with editing our first episode. Arthur and I are both taphophiles, or simply put 'grave hunters.' He has an AMAZING series on YouTube called "Hollywood Graveyards" where he takes viewers on a guided tour of famous Los Angeles cemeteries that have become the final resting places of such big names as Marilyn Monroe, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, and Elizabeth Taylor. Take a stroll with him HERE!
Thank you to Erin Gambrill for her advice on how the heck to even begin starting a podcast. Erin is my kindred Librarian spirit and she even has a podcast with two other lovely ladies called, appropriately, Ladies Who Library. Have a listen HERE, but please keep your voice down!
Thank you to the amazing Jennifer Redmond who has helped me "do my homework" by giving me access to some very useful sites to really dig up the dirt. Jennifer also writes a blog dedicated to silent film, and her article on 'Breezy' Reeves Eason, Jr. was used as source material for this first episode. You can find her blog HERE! Jennifer is also the author of a spectacular book called Reels & Rivals: Sisters in Silent Films. I definitely recommending putting that one on your Amazon Wish List!
Thank you to Kayla Sturm for helping me maneuver through the cogs and gears of recording a podcast and then getting it published and validated and approved and...yeah, all of that! Kayla is one half of These Glamour Girls, a podcast dedicated to preserving the legacy of the immortal actresses of Classic Hollywood. If you are a fan of Joan, be it Bennett, Crawford, or Fontaine, then you need to check out the These Glamour Girls podcast HERE!
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