10 Silent Movie Stars Who Didn’t Make It in the Talkies

The transition from silent films to pictures with talking, “talkies,” is one of the most disruptive events that the film industry has ever gone through. It completely changed the way films were made, from production processes to acting techniques. Adopting new technology that allowed sound and voice capture meant that the filming process had to adopt new procedures as well to accommodate new equipment and microphones that the actors had to wear.