 Gossip columnist  Jimmy Fidler  (qv) shows brief glimpses of over 60 actors and actresses, all of whom started in silent films. Some were stars in silents whose career faded with the advent of sound (e.g.,  Harrison Ford (II)  (qv) and  Alla Nazimova  (qv); others were lesser players who made it big in sound films (e.g.  Ronald Colman  (qv) and  William Boyd (I)  (qv)). Fidler also looks at stars of that era who have passed away (e.g.,  Mabel Normand  (qv),  Will Rogers (I)  (qv),  Lon Chaney  (qv), and  Jean Harlow  (qv)).