
Scandals and pratfalls abound in this satirical and sexy look at the silent movie era, photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lupe Vélez, Fatty Arbuckle, and William Desmond Taylor.

as Clara Bow

as Lupe Velez

as Mrs. Peabody

as Gloria Swanson

as Virginia Rappe

as Josephine Baker

as Ramon Novarro

as Alla Nazimova

as Louise Brooks

as Miss Applebaum

as Slate Boy

as Johnny Weissmuller

as Rudolph Valentino

as Daisy DeVoe

as Charlie Chaplin

as Mack Sennett

as Adolph Zukor

as Alma Rubens

as Barbara La Marr

as Mabel Normand

as Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle

as Erich von Stronheim

as Douglas Fairbanks