Bert Lytell in A Message from Mars (1921)

Betty Grable and Sheree North in How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

A horror movie star whose fan base rivals that of Bela Lugosi. It was luck that granted Boris Karloff the chance to make horror cinema history. The result: "Frankenstein."

Boris Karloff, John Boles, Mae Clarke, Colin Clive, and Dwight Frye in Frankenstein (1931)

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includes a few TV serials in the style of classic cliffhanger theatricals as well as some retro-serials

Pearl White in The Lightning Raider (1919)

Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, are short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film.

They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction.

Also known as "chapter plays", they were extended motion  pictures broken into a number of segments called "chapters" or "episodes". Each chapter was screened at the same theater for one week and ended with a cliffhanger in which the hero and heroine found themselves in a perilous situation with little apparent chance of escape.

Viewers had to return each week to see the cliffhangers resolved and to follow the continuing story.

Serials were especially popular with children and for many youths in the first half of the 20th century a typical Saturday at the movies included a chapter of at least one serial along with animated cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films.

(Info taken from wikipedia)

Veda Ann Borg and Victor Jory in The Shadow (1940)

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