When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from ...

British leading man of primarily American films, one of the great stars of the Golden Age. Raised in Ealing, the son of a successful silk merchant, he attended boarding school in Sussex, where he ...

Welsh-born Ray Milland (born Alfred Reginald Jones) was indeed dashing in the tradition of gentleman heroes that Ronald Colman exemplified and that actors of Milland’s generation sought to emulate.