Talkies in example sentence

But as is the case with performers who have either left the studio in a bad way, or were known for being erratic, disruptive, or plain uncooperative, or could not make the transition from one period of their career to the next (in this case, silents to talkies), they were immediately replaced with performers who could fill their shoes.

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Chaplin was great a silent comedian, but many silent era stars fell when the public heard their voices in the first talkies.

Some of the early talkies survived to become classics.

It's virtually a compendium of what was wrong with the earliest talkies: stiff direction, immobile cameras, stagy acting and ridiculously slow-paced delivery of lines.

As with many early talkies, and especially ones made by smaller studios, there is little skill demonstrated by the cast and crew.

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