Greta Garbo. Max Linder. Charlie Chaplin.

They were as totemic in their time as Bogart, Gary Cooper and Katherine Hepburn would be to theirs. And a century after some of them took their first bows on screen, the names of these stars of the Silent Era endure. The Observer of London takes a look at the Top 10 Silent Film stars this morning in a dramatic slideshow of images.

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