Welcome to our newly designed website with advanced search capabilities for over 8,000 books. A website where those lovers of the early years of Hollywood's Silver Screen will be able to nostalgically reminisce and look back at books featuring the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age.  The feature photoplay presents scenes and action as has never been possible on any stage.  Yet the very best of these fails to satisfy us fully, because it can not, even with the best and most skillful direction, give all of the character, the interplay of emotion, the subtle inner motives and the finer bits of humor which go to make up the whole of life.

All do indeed appear upon the screen in all of their dramatic power, still we want much more if we are to have the fullest possible understanding of all the beauty and strength of personality which go to make up the deeper background of life as the author makes it plain in his pages.

The best proof of the need for supplementing the photoplay with very full text lies in the picturization of any great novel.  See the picture, then read the novel and you will find out how one helps the other.  Even then you have reversed the best order of procedure.  Had you read the novel first, and then seen the picture how much deeper would have been your understanding and appreciation of all the scenes!  There can be no doubt in the mind of any thinking person that the Book and the photoplay belong together.  One helps the other infinitely.  As you read the book you imagine how the characters must have acted at the critical turns in the drama, and when you see the picture your ideas are broadened and deepened, if the picture has been well done.

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Last Revision:  October 22, 2025