astronomy

Silent Star

Silent Star is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Silent Star rather than just read about it. In short: Silent Star: Colleen Moore Talks About Her Hollywood (1968) is silent film star Colleen Moore's autobiography. Content The book was written after the death of her third husband, Homer Hargrave.

Key takeaways

Silent Star belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Silent Star to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Silent Star from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Silent Star: Colleen Moore Talks About Her Hollywood (1968) is silent film star Colleen Moore's autobiography.

Content The book was written after the death of her third husband, Homer Hargrave. It was likely written with the help of Moore's friend Adela Rogers St. Johns. Moore is often either identified as "me" or "Colleen Moore," indicating more than one person wrote the captions in the book's photo captions. The book covered her life from birth until the point it was written, and was a "tell-all" in that she shattered many myths that had developed around her during her film career. Among the admissions Moore made in the book was that her break in films came as a result of her uncle Walter Howey cashing in debt owed him by D. W. Griffith. She described her marriage to John McCormick (1893–1961) as rocky as a result of his alcoholism. Born in Port Huron, Michigan, Moore mentions that she had known she wanted to be a motion picture star from a very young age. She wrote that she kept a scrapbook of her favorite stars and left a few pages blank at the end for her own photographs. A year later, she would donate her own scrapbooks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, where they are currently available for viewing by researchers at the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library. In the book, Moore gave her impressions on several of Hollywood's biggest controversies, including:

the William Desmond Taylor murder (Moore had been on a double date with Mary Miles Minter before the murder); the Roscoe Arbuckle trials (Moore's uncle Walter Howey, a Hearst Corporation editor, had fanned public outrage against Arbuckle); the suicide of Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, (Moore attended their wedding); and the death of Rudolph Valentino (who Moore was never too impressed by). While she provides no information that wasn't already known about these scandals, she does recount her feelings about the events at the time. The book also spends some time constructing and tour of her dollhouse for charity before the Second World War. The dollhouse is currently on display at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Publication Silent Star was published by Doubleday & Company in 1968. The book has 262 pages with many photographs and is currently out of print.

References

Bibliography Codori, Jeff (2012). Colleen Moore: A Biography of the Silent Film Star. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9. Archived from the original on August 4, 2011. Also available as ebook (ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).

External links Colleen Moore research/history project page Silents are Golden Recommended Reading Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle The Old Movie Maven – Silent Star The Colleen Moore Project Silent Star at Internet Archive

Illustrations

Silent Star: Moore from Stars of the Photoplay (1930) — Moore from Stars of the Photoplay (1930)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Silent Star

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Silent Star claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Silent Star before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Silent Star ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Silent Star

In research: Silent Star appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Silent Star in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Silent Star is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1968 non-fiction books, Autobiographies, Doubleday (publisher) books, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Silent Star outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Silent Star in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Silent Star means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Silent Star out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Silent Star in simple terms?

Silent Star: Colleen Moore Talks About Her Hollywood (1968) is silent film star Colleen Moore's autobiography. Content The book was written after the death of her third husband, Homer Hargrave.

Why does Silent Star matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Silent Star?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Silent Star.