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Nickname:	Jack
Known for:	The Big Parade, Queen Christina, Flesh and the Devil
Birth name:	John Cecil Pringle
Birthday:	10 July 1899, Logan, Utah, USA
Height:	5' 11" (1.80 m)

Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA., in the Whispering Pines section near the top of the hill. Pictured on one of ten 29¢ US commemorative postage stamps celebrating stars of the silent screen, issued 27 April 1994. Designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, this set of stamps also honored Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, Charles Chaplin, Lon Chaney, Zasu Pitts, Harold Lloyd, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, and the Keystone Kops. Was left standing at the altar in 1927, after Greta Garbo got cold feet about marrying him. Is portrayed by Barry Bostwick in Moviola: The Silent Lovers MGM star Gilbert had a huge enemy in Louis B. Mayer after Gilbert pummeled Mayer while defending lady love Greta Garbo's honor. It is said that Mayer himself, and/or his chief sound engineer, manipulated the knobs of Gilbert's first talking films so that a perfectly adequate speaking voice came out on the big screen as ridiculously high pitched. Sure enough, when the actor's shrill declarations of love in His Glorious Night hit movie theaters, audiences howled with laughter. This proved to be the beginning of the end for the decade's highest paid matinée idol ($250,000 per film). A one-man play on the life of John Gilbert, entitled Silenced Idol, was announced in August 2006. The two-act theatrical work is by Tony Maietta (who also portrays Gilbert) and Jeffrey Vance.

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