This book is lovingly and respectfully dedicated to all the stars of silent film that I have either written about only briefly or did not have room to mention: first and foremost Blanche Sweet, along with Wallace Reid, Raymond Griffith, Betty Bronson, Harry Carey, Eleanor Boardman, Charley Chase, Mary Miles Minter, Pearl White, Florence Vidor, Hoot Gibson, Thomas Meighan, Dolores Del Rio, Vilma Banky, Broncho Billy Anderson, Ben Turpin, Milton Sills, Laurel and Hardy, Jackie Coogan, Dorothy and Lillian Gish, William Haines, Mae Marsh, the comedy greats (Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Langdon), Esther Ralston, Richard Dix, Corrinne Grifith, Charles Ray, Sessue Hayakawa, Emil Jannings, and on and on …