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Suffering in Silents: Two 1922 Melodramas from Frank Borzage

Suffering in Silents: Two 1922 Melodramas from Frank Borzage

Frank Borzage, king of silent film melodrama, shows how it’s done with Back Pay‘s tale of redemption and the James Oliver Curwood-inspired The Valley of Silent Men.

The Non-Tragic Mulatto in ‘Imitation of Life’