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Abe Lyman, Adele Astaire, Ben Model, David Stenn, George Eastman Museum, Jeanne Eagels, John Gilbert, Man Woman and Sin, MoMA, Monta Bell, New York, Silent Movies, To Save and Project
Jeanne Eagels with John Gilbert and Marc McDermott in Man, Woman and Sin
Jeanne Eagels’ last silent movie – and her only Hollywood shoot – Man, Woman and Sin (1927) is showing in a restored print as part of To Save and Project, the 20th annual film preservation festival at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) next Saturday, January 13th, at 1:30 pm. Continue reading
Of Irish descent, Ina Fagan was born in Washington on October 15, 1893. She never knew her father, who had died in a car accident four months previously. With no family breadwinner, Ina and her mother went to live in a boarding-house. From an early age, Ina had a talent for impersonations, and made her vaudeville debut in 1909 as ‘the dainty mimic’, under her mother’s maiden name of Ina Claire. 
Tara Hanks 
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