One of the happy discoveries of Steve Massa’s new book Lame Brains and Lunatics is Marcel Perez (Manuel Fernandez Perez, 1884-1927). Well enough known in the silent era, Massa postulates that Perez’s present obscurity may stem from the fact that his screen name and identity changed so many times (he also changed nations and studios constantly, but […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:30AM on June 12, 2013