<i>L'epoca d'oro dello star system hollywoodiano (1914-1929)</i>

Abstract

After taking into consideration the rising and development of Hollywood star system, this essay focuses on the main star figures, both male and female, who worked as leading actors in the American movie industry during the silent era. Such stars have been arranged by five categories: serial heroes and heroines, Victorian ladies and sophisticated divas, vamps and exotic beauties, comedians and flappers, American heroes and Latin lovers.