Since its inception, cinema has indeed become the most massive of the arts, and the main people in cinema - actors - idols of many generations. This was the case in the days of the "great mute," and this continued when sound came to the cinema, and then color. This book tells about the most famous representatives of the acting profession who delighted movie lovers from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day: Charlie Chaplin and Anatoly Papanov, Mary Pickford and Sophia Loren, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Leonardo DiCaprio and many others.