Silent Auction

Mon., May 3, 1999

Hundreds of silent-movie classics including “The Phantom of the Opera,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “The King of Kings” and a collection of Laurel and Hardy films, as well as rare footage of W.C. Fields, will be on the auction block May 23 and 24. The prints of more than 1,500 films come from the Silent Movie Showcase in Hollywood, the country’s only movie theater dedicated to silent films, which was closed in January 1997 after a gunman killed the theater’s owner. Many of the 16 mm and 35 mm silent films were given to the theater’s original owner by Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille.

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