John Gilbert, my favourite silent movie actor, was born on 10 July 1897.*

Let’s celebrate with some photos of the great matinée idol!

Poster for The Big Parade, 1925

Gilbert and Garbo Mural. Columbus.

John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in A Woman of Affairs, 1928

Publicity photo of John Gilbert and Joan Crawford in Four Walls, 1928

John Gilbert, 1930s

John Gilbert in The Merry Widow, 1925

John Gilbert and Greta Garbo in Flesh and the Devil, 1926

*I was born on the same day, nearly 80 years later.