The background of Irish - born comic actor J. Pat O'Malley has frequently been misreported in source books because his credits have been confused with those of silent film star Pat O'Malley. (rottentomatoes.com)
Lynne Ramsay had the wisdom to direct Samantha Morton as an essentially silent film star in this tale of a supermarket clerk who reacts to her boyfriend's suicide by not telling anyone, sending his unpublished novel to publishers under her own name and escaping to an Andalusian holiday. (lwlies.com)
This film opens very self - consciously: we are watching the projection of the latest silent film starring George Valentin, played eloquently by Jean Dujardin. (screenpicks.com)