Fans of the silent screen agree that silence is golden. There was something special when silent films were the universal language and when Gloria Swanson (as Norma Desmond) said, "We didn't need dialogue, we had faces!" During the writing of Broken Silence, I wanted my subjects, who were among the last of the silent film stars, to be anything but silent.

Broken Silence features my exclusive interviews with the following: Lew Ayres, William Bakewell, Lina Basquette, Madge Bellamy, Eleanor Boardman, Ethlyne Clair, Junior Coghlan, Joyce Compton, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maxine Elliott Hicks, Dorothy Janis, George Lewis, Marion Mack, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lois Moran, Baby Marie Osborne, Muriel Ostriche, Eddie Quillan, Esther Ralston, Dorothy Revier, David Rollins, and Gladys Walton.