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Product Description Companion volume to silent film star, writer, directer, editor producer Nell Shipman's best-selling autobiography The Silent Screen & My Talking Heart. this volume primarily picks up where Shipman's autobiography ended (disaster, 1925, Idaho) and follows her epic career via correspondence, essays and news stories to her final days near Palm Springs (1970). An abundance of never-before-seen black and white, sepia, and color photographs, maps and fold-out blue prints enhance this epic, unintended autobiography. About the Author Shipman is a rediscovered giant of silent cinema, admired for her beautiful films shot on location with wild animal actors, films which always featured a hero spelled heroine.