About the Author

Author Robert S. Birchard, who selected these rarely or neverseen photographs from his personal collection, is an awardwinning film and video editor whose books include Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood and King Cowboy--Tom Mix and the Movies. A guest curator for an exhibit on the "Flying A" studio at the Santa Barbara Historical Society Museum, Birchard has appeared on television's History Detectives and in the documentaries Cecil B. DeMille: America Epic and The Woman With the Hungry Eyes--The Life and Films of Theda Bara.