He has films as recent as 1934, but his 1969 death suggests he didn't fare well. Perhaps someone has more details. Scott =============================================================================== Scott Andrew Hutchins http://php.iupui.edu/~sahutchi Oz, Monsters, Kamillions, and More! "Love is not a positive emotion that begins in us and ends in the positive response of someone else. Love is divine energy that comes from God and has no end." --Eric Butterworth On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Lee Parpart wrote: > I'm looking for information about silent film star Donald Keith. Does anyone > know, for example, how well or poorly he handled the transition to sound, > why he suddenly veered off into Westerns in the early '30s (after romantic > leading roles in flapper films such as Plastic Age and Bare Knees), and what > ended his career after only 9 years and 33 films? I'm not a silent film > expert -- just a growing Keith fan and video columnist who had a chance to > write about him recently (re. his work with Clara Bow, recently released by > Kino on Video) but lacked some of the information I would like to have had > at the time. > > Thanks for any input, > Lee Parpart > > -----Original Message----- > From: Automatic digest processor <[log in to unmask]> > To: Recipients of SCREEN-L digests <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 1:14 AM > Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 25 Aug 1999 to 26 Aug 1999 (#1999-114) > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]