During Hollywood’s Silent Era, few child stars reached the heights of fame as quickly as Baby Peggy. With her captivating smile and charm beyond her years, she had it all—until she didn’t.

Because of the success of the event, Cinecon will host its first “Pop-Up” day at the OTMH on Sunday, April 6, which will ...

Free monthly screenings feature live music, celebrating 100 years of downtown branch with classic films from the 1920s ...

On March 28, the audience at the Wallenstien Theater will be swept back to a time when girls were flappers, young men were sheiks, jazz was king and liquor was bootlegged when Allied Arts screens the ...

Director Zilbalodis, 30, who started working on the film in 2019 after finishing his debut film Away and used the free and ...

Northwest Siders are mourning the loss of the accomplished photoplay organist who founded the Silent Film Society of Chicago ...

Rare footage of a 1933 flight from Renfrew Airport to Belfast by a pioneering Scottish female pilot is to be set to live ...

Released in 1915, the film was directed by Francis Ford, the brother of famed filmmaker John Ford. It had been listed in a record of 7,200 silent films classified as "lost" ...

Both exalt art as a calling. After a movie collapses as a result of a scandal, Tinseltown’s moguls blacklist Klaus, who flees ...

Rich Hein/Sun-Times, file Share Dennis Wolkowicz harnessed the sound of an entire symphony orchestra when he sat at a theater organ to accompany silent films. “It’s a special organ ...