Talkies in example sentence

One can see why Hayakawa would have been a successful silent film actor with his elegant physical presence and one can simultaneously hear why he didn't cut the mustard in talkies - the accent is so thick that one must strain to understand him.

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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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