George Valentin is a famous silent film star, but with the advent of sound and talkies, his career begins to fade.

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But if he makes his work sound deceptively simple, he makes the same light of his meteoric career path.

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It's the sound of a resilient band, still hitting lofty peaks more than a decade into a great career.

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