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Source: Los Angeles Times
“… it’ll be a sensation! “Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!”: In this photo from The Times’ archives, silent film actress Anita Page takes her first speech class at USC. The photo accompanied a May 29, 1928, front-page story on film studios’ preparation for the move from silent pictures to “talkies.”  Teaching motion-picture actors to talk, leaders of the profession freely admit, is the big job that is confronting the studios today because of the steadily growing popularity of the talking pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was announced yesterday, is planning to carry on a systematic education of its actors in the art and science of speech. The fellow at Page’s right is Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, USC’s president at the time. The following year, Page played the wonderfully named Queenie Mahoney in “The Broadway Melody,” which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Photo: Los Angeles Times Archive / UCLA

“… it’ll be a sensation! “Lamont and Lockwood: they talk!”: In this photo from The Times’ archives, silent film actress Anita Page takes her first speech class at USC. The photo accompanied a May 29, 1928, front-page story on film studios’ preparation for the move from silent pictures to “talkies.” 

Teaching motion-picture actors to talk, leaders of the profession freely admit, is the big job that is confronting the studios today because of the steadily growing popularity of the talking pictures. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was announced yesterday, is planning to carry on a systematic education of its actors in the art and science of speech.

The fellow at Page’s right is Rufus B. Von KleinSmid, USC’s president at the time. The following year, Page played the wonderfully named Queenie Mahoney in “The Broadway Melody,” which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Photo: Los Angeles Times Archive / UCLA

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