stackyFACTSWhen sound hit Hollywood, most silent film stars were immediately fired because they sounded like squeaky toys or chain-smoking mobsters.
When sound hit Hollywood, most silent film stars were immediately fired because they sounded like squeaky toys or chain-smoking mobsters. Bessie Love, however, possessed an actual survival instinct. Anticipating the apocalypse of the silent era, she quietly took elocution lessons to fix her voice. While her arrogant peers scoffed at microphones and lost their jobs, she gracefully strutted into the talkies with a perfectly modulated paycheck.
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