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Barbara Kent, a 1925 graduate of Hollywood High School, is being called the last living actress to have achieved stardom in silent films. A contract player for Universal, she appeared opposite Greta Garbo in the 1926 landmark "Flesh and the Devil." She made it into talkies but never acted on screen after 1935. Kent died Oct. 13 in Palm Desert.
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