talkie

Example Sentences

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But O’Neill’s 1921 drama poses ornery challenges for an actress—and not just because Greta Garbo immortalized the role in her first “talkie.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Putting too much control over what we watch in too few hands has been a perennial concern since talkies replaced silent films.

From MarketWatch

But then the talkies came, and photoplayers were rendered obsolete, slipping out of public awareness as quickly as they came on scene.

From Los Angeles Times

The kitchen in particular saw some chaos, too, as Uncle Bryn had a meltdown over cooking Christmas dinner, and took to using walkie talkies to organise his timings and communicate with Gwen.

From BBC

One of the few silent movie stars to transition successfully to the "talkies", Garbo moved away from Hollywood to New York, where she lived until her death in 1990 at the age of 84.

From BBC