Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)

10.0/10 55 min Documentary

Overview

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.

Cast

Roddy McDowall

Narrator (voice)

Marc Wanamaker

Self

Richard Barthelmess

The Yellow Man (archive footage)

Charlie Chaplin

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

Jack Dempsey

Self (archive footage)

George Eastman

Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Self

Douglas Fairbanks

Self (archive footage)

Lillian Gish

Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)

D.W. Griffith

Self (archive footage)

Robert Harron

Self (archive footage)

Florence Lawrence

Self (archive footage)

Mabel Normand

Self (archive footage)

Mary Pickford

Self / Various roles (archive footage)

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