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Mack Sennett
Channing Tatum rules Hollywood

"I NEVER quite understood Rex, but I think that's why I was in love with him. I think the minute you understand somebody you have had it." That was silent screen actress Alice Terry, remarking on her long marriage to the great director Rex Ingram. This quote comes from Ruth Barton's elegant and well-researched new biography "Rex Ingram: Visionary Director of the Silent Screen." Although his name is not as well known as those of D.W. Griffith, Mack Sennett, Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and others who toiled when the moves were young, his work was evocative and influential -- if nothing else, he made a star out of Rudolph Valentino in "The Four Horseman of...