Talkies Collection

The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain. The first theatre to be designed to incorporate a speaker system for sound

Harry Langdon early 1900s

Music cover, MGM's Hollywood Revue of 1929
Music cover, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hollywood Revue of 1929, Selection of Melodies Date: 1929

Music cover, Oh, Donna Clara, original version by Beda, English version by Jimmy Kennedy, music by J Petersburski. Date: 1930

Stars of the West - a group of young ladies who scintillate Hollywood, 1930 - Bernice Claire seen in First National talkies including Spring is Here (top left), the Sisters G

A Sound Proposition by Vernon Ward (talkies)
The advent of talking pictures recorded by Vernon Ward in an illustration showing people gathering outside a cinema where a poster proclaims the movie showing is All Talking. Date: 1929

Music cover, The Gold Diggers of Broadway
Music cover, Painting The Clouds With Sunshine, words by al Dubin, music by Joe Burke, from the film The Gold Diggers of Broadway. 1929

Ramon Novarro / Ben Hur
RAMON NOVARRO (Ramon Samaniegoes) Mexican actor in American silent films, later a character actor in talkies, seen here in Ben Hur (1927) Date: 1899 -

Ramon Novarro / Postcard
RAMON NOVARRO (Ramon Samaniegoes) Mexican actor in American silent films, later a character actor in talkies Date: 1899 -

Mae Marsh (1895 - 1968), (Mary Warne Marsh) American actress in silent films and talkies

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Texan Movie Star Bessie Love (1898-1986) - won an Academy Award nomination for Broadway Melody - recognised with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - appeared in films between 1916 and 1983!

THE TALKIES
A live orchestra synchronizing music and sound to a film screen. Date: circa 1930

Lillian Hall-Davies, British film actress
Lillian Hall-Davies (1898-1933), British film actress of the silent era. She failed to make the transition to talkies, and committed suicide. Seen here in a mob cap, holding a basket of flowers

Victor McLaglen / Medals
VICTOR McLAGLEN British actor in British silent films and American talkies, seen here in uniform

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